Patent ID: 7158997

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) hosting, on a server, a database of specification data of products of a plurality of different manufacturers, the product specification data in the database being arranged in a predefined product class; (b) defining, for each product class, a schema configured to accommodate entry of specification data of products in the product class; (c) providing an interface used by product manufacturers and granting authorized access to only a product manufacturer to add new product specification data into the database and to modify existing product specification data in the database, the interface requiring each manufacturer to use a same schema when entering and modifying product specification data in a particular product class, wherein the authorized access restricts edit access of product specification data to only a manufacturer of that product and no manufacturer is provided access to the product specification data of another manufacturer; and (d) in exchange for remuneration from a given manufacturer, providing that manufacturer with access to the interface and to a respective product specification data in the database, wherein the respective product specification data is inserted on pages of a web site of the manufacturer.