Patent ID: 8156105

Claim:
A method for operating an item data management server to create a plurality of physical item data records corresponding to a plurality of physical items in the control of a user, the item data management server communicatively coupled to a user terminal via at least one data network, the method comprising: presenting a rapid entry generation query to the user terminal, wherein the rapid entry generation query includes a filename field for identifying a plurality of data files upon which to create the plurality of physical item data records; receiving, in response to the rapid entry generation query, a default category corresponding to all of the plurality of physical items in the control of the user; a set of default attributes and user created attributes corresponding to all of the plurality of physical items in the control of the user; and the plurality of data files identified in the filename field upon which to create the plurality of physical item data records, each data file respective to one of the plurality of physical items in the control of the user; creating the plurality of physical item data records based upon the response to the rapid entry generation query; altering each of the plurality of physical item data records to include the default category; altering each of the plurality of physical item data records to include the set of default attributes; associating each of the plurality of data files with a corresponding physical item data record; creating a web page that includes information from the physical item data record; and at least one other link selected based upon the physical item data record; and presenting, via the item data management server, the web page to the user terminal.