Patent ID: 7110966

Claim:
An interactive method for on-line selection of an air conditioning product, comprising the steps of: providing a database storing a plurality of air conditioning product identifiers and at least one corresponding product characteristic; interactively obtaining intended use information from a consumer for a desired air conditioning product and intended use location; equating said intended use information with an intended use product characteristic; identifying a suitable product having said at least one product characteristic meeting said intended use product characteristic; and identifying said suitable product to said consumer, wherein said corresponding product characteristic includes a BTU rating for each product, and wherein said step of interactively obtaining comprises: obtaining intended use location area from said consumer; transforming said intended use location area into an initial acceptable BTU capacity for said intended use location area; obtaining further intended use location information from said consumer; determining a correction factor from said further intended use location information; and applying said correction factor to said initial acceptable BTU capacity so as to obtain a corrected acceptable BTU capacity, and wherein said equating step comprises identifying said suitable product having said BUT rating meeting said corrected acceptable BTU capacity.