Patent ID: 8352334

Claim:
A method for facilitating ordering of supplies, the method comprising: presenting on a display of a wireless handset device, using a processor accessing memory, a hierarchy of iconic folders, each iconic folder representing a particular multifunction device, within each iconic folder is at least one graphical widget representing a supply commodity specific to a multifunction device, associated with each graphical widget is a profile of at least one supplier of that particular commodity, said profile containing at least in part contact information about said supplier and further containing information pertaining to ordering that commodity from that supplier, where each commodity that is available from said supplier is shaded with a separate color in said iconic folder representing said particular multifunction device; receiving the graphical widget inside said iconic folder representing said supply commodity desired to be ordered; retrieving from said memory a supplier profile associated with said graphical widget; assembling an order message for said supply commodity as per ordering requirements identified in said supplier profile; and using said wireless handset to send said order message to said supplier to order said supply commodity for said multifunction device.