Patent ID: 7266516
Filing Date: 2007-09-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for allowing a customer to create a customized product catalog from a supplier maintained electronic catalog, comprising: receiving at a supplier server computer from a customer client computer in communication with the supplier server computer via the Internet a request, entered by the customer at the customer client computer, to search the supplier maintained electronic catalog, wherein the supplier maintained electronic catalog is stored within a database associated with the supplier server computer, the supplier maintained electronic catalog is comprised of data representative of a plurality of products each having one or more attributes, and the request includes at least one customer-specified attribute of interest; causing the supplier server computer to examine the data to identify the products in the supplier maintained electronic catalog that have an attribute corresponding to the customer-specified attribute of interest; causing the supplier server computer to aggregate the identified products into a sub-catalog whereby the sub-catalog is comprises of data representative of the identified products; causing the supplier server computer to format the sub-catalog, comprised of data representative of the aggregated, identified products, to create a single machine readable electronic file version of the sub-catalog having a customer-specified electronic file format; and causing the supplier server computer to download, via the Internet, the single electronic file version of the sub-catalog to the customer client computer whereby the data representative of the aggregated, identified products within the sub-catalog comprises the customized product catalog and is accessible to the customer without requiring further access to the supplier maintained electronic catalog.