Patent ID: 7770143
Filing Date: 2010-08-03
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for providing designs comprising graphical and/or creative design elements by conducting a multi-round development process with a distributed community of designers, comprising: a communications module for electronically distributing a first specification comprising requirements for a design comprising graphical and/or creative design elements to a distributed community of designers and for receiving designs comprising graphical and/or creative design elements from each of a subset of the community of designers in response to the design requirements, and for electronically distributing a second specification comprising refinements of the first specification based on received designs; a screening module for identifying received designs that meet the specifications; an evaluation and ranking of module for facilitating evaluation of a subset of the received designs by a customer that requested the design; a selection module for selecting preferred designs in response to the facilitated evaluation of the designs.