Patent ID: 6978273
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of using one or more computer systems to generate a plurality of custom catalogs from a database comprising catalog data, said method comprising: executing a search of the database for each of a plurality of rule sets, each of the rule sets specifying constraints that define a scope of the catalog data comprising one of the custom catalogs, and each of the rule sets uniquely identified by a rule set identifier, said executing a search performed in accordance with constraints specified by the rule set and returning a set of search results in the form of a subset of the catalog data having the scope defined by the constraints; associating each set of search results with the identifier of the rule set used to generate them; and responding to a database query, the query specifying constraints defining a scope of the catalog data and being associated with a rule set identifier, wherein said responding further comprises: