Patent ID: 8099297

Claim:
A computer-based and Internet-based service-business transaction system for generating a service order and selling services, comprising: a computer system and an application server connected to a relational database; an input means configured to enable a customer to input information to the relational database relative to the customer; a communication means configured to enable communication of information about service-provider professionals, service-provider facilities or both service-provider professionals and service-provider facilities to potential customers of the business-transaction system and communication of information about one or more customers' choosing of services of the service-provider professionals, service-provider facilities or both service-provider professionals and service-provider facilities to the business-transaction system; a planning means; a front office purchasing interface configured to provide purchase order information and marketing information and to receive at least one order from at least one customer; and a processor configured for processing orders received from the front office purchasing interface, wherein the database is configured to store service-order information about each of a plurality of service providers and contains at least one of a service-method and service-provider information, said service-provider information comprising at least one of a service-method, service-provider data and pre-service processing methods, the system has a services entry interface and means for services entry authorization and customer authorization, the application server hosts business system software and is accessible to customers via the Internet, the database, the front office purchasing interface, the planning means, and the processor are interoperably connected, the computer system is configured such that a customer accessing the application server through an Internet connection causes the business system software to initiate the planning means based on input information from the customer, the planning means connects or relates the customer's input information to information about the services and retrieves from the database information sufficient to complete and deliver a standard service order, and wherein the at least one of a service-method and service-provider information contained in the database is a service-method corresponding to a service that is at least one of a medical service, a biomedical service, a research service, and a biomedical research service, and wherein the at least one of a service-method and service-provider information contained in the database is at least one of a biomedical service-method, biomedical research service-method, and biomedical service-provider information and are related to at least one of biological materials and biomedical materials processing method, and wherein the planning means is configured to enable a customer accessing the system to plan a medical or biomedical research service.