Patent ID: 8571887

Claim:
A computer-based and Internet-based method of facilitating a transaction between a customer and a medical or biomedical service provider, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing an offer to at least one potential customer to sell a service of storing stem cells or to sell a storable stem cell product; (b) registering online via a web site a customer order responsive to the offer; (c) generating a service order automatically by a computing module based on the customer order, the service order directing: (i) sampling or collecting a biological tissue to produce a tissue sample; (ii) extracting specimen stem cells from the tissue sample; (iii) freeze-drying the specimen stem cells to create freeze-dried specimen cells; and (iv) loading the freeze-dried specimen cells into a non-refrigerated dry-storage container and closing the container; and (d) outputting the automatically generated service order from a computer, and (e) automatically delivering the service order to third-party practitioners specified in the service order to carry out the steps specified in the service order.