Patent ID: 7020624

Claim:
A network server for providing continuous laundry services for articles of wear to a customer on a client computer, the server comprising: a plurality of article identifiers, each of the article identifiers attaching to each of the articles; a customer database for associating the customer with a customer identification; a message server for sending a message to the customer; a service catalog for indicating available article-related services to the customer; an order database for tracking a process status of an article according to the corresponding article identifier; and a last-serviced database for tracking a regular service requirement of the article and tracking whether a service time for the article to be serviced is exceeded or not according to the article identifier, the last-serviced database comprising a last service field for holding the time when the article last obtained a specific servicing, and an interval field for holding a time interval after which the article must again obtain the specific servicing, the last service field and the interval field together comprising the service time for the article to be next serviced to enable the last-serviced database to track whether the service time is exceed or not; wherein the network server uses the last-serviced database and the message server to send a message to the customer when the service time for the article is exceeded, and uses the order database to enable the customer to track the process status of the article.