Patent ID: 7359840

Claim:
A remote order acceptance design method which provides basic specification information of a product to a customer's terminal from a computer of a manufacturer of the product via a network, and gradually completes a design of the product according to a specification request from the customer's terminal, the method comprising: transmitting, by the manufacturer's computer, listed information with respect to basic specifications of manufacturer's available products to the customer's terminal according to a request from the customer who is thinking of installing the product to his or her design; retrieving, by the manufacturer's computer, in response to the customer's designation of products selected out as a candidate for placing an order from the listed information with respect to the basic specifications, at least corresponding structure information and CAD symbol information including information about an occupying space necessary to secure so as to place the candidate product from a database, and transmitting, by the manufacturer's computer, the retrieved CAD symbol to the customer's terminal; receiving, by the manufacturer's computer, customer design data from the customer's terminal, wherein the customer design data is generated by positioning the CAD symbol in the customer's design still in progress and by installing the candidate product to the customer's design; determining, by the manufacturer's computer, whether or not an interference exists within an installing area of the candidate product which the CAD symbol indicates, by extracting, from the received customer design data, structural features near the installing area of the customer's design based on the position of the CAD symbol and the occupying space; when it is determined that no interference exists within the installing area of the candidate product, obtaining, by the manufacturer's computer, arrangement regulation information of an equipment included in the candidate product corresponding to the CAD symbol from the product specification database, and generating, by the manufacturer's computer, a plan data for installing the candidate product to the customer's design, based on the arrangement regulation information and the customer design data; and transmitting the plan data for the candidate product to the customer's terminal.