Patent ID: 7016865

Claim:
An internet-based personalized product order system comprising: a computer configured to communicate with a network; an acceptance module configured to communicate with the computer, and to accept a personalized product order; a vendor selection module configured to select a vendor from a plurality of vendors, the selected vendor being capable of producing the personalized product, and each vendor having a preferred personalized product order format, said preferred personalized product order format for each said vendor on file in a vendor database accessible to said computer, each said product order format operative to cause the corresponding vendor's manufacturing facilities to manufacture a personalized product in accordance with the personalized product order; a conversion module configured to determine the format preferred by the selected vendor based on information in the vendor database pertaining to the selected vendor; and the conversion module configured to convert the personalized product order into the format preferred by the selected vendor, and to send the converted personalized product order to the selected vendor, the converted personalized product order operative to cause the selected vendor's manufacturing facilities to manufacture a desired personalized product in accordance with the personalized product order.