Patent ID: 7904349

Claim:
A computing system implemented process for obtaining inventory item descriptions comprising: providing a product description database; obtaining data representing a manufacturer's description of a selected product and the manufacturer's identification data for the selected product; storing the data representing the manufacturer's description of the selected product and the manufacturer's identification data for the selected product in the product description database; mapping, using a computing system implemented financial management system used by a seller of the selected product, the seller's identification data for the selected product to the manufacturer's identification data for the selected product, the seller's identification data including at least one of a seller inventory number, a seller catalog number, and a seller product number; locating, within the product description database, the manufacturer's description of the selected product using the mapped seller's identification data for the selected product; receiving data representing the manufacturer's description of the selected product at a seller computing system; displaying the received manufacturer's description of the product for the seller, and receiving user input editing the received manufacturer's description of the product resulting in an edited description; using, by the seller, the edited description in selling the product.