Patent ID: 8239401

Claim:
A computer implemented method for sharing personalized, modifiable and repeatable search requests on a proprietary database system, the method comprising the steps of: electronically identifying a sales-chip by a first party using a proprietary database system, said sales-chip being a saved search engine that was created when a search request retrieved information satisfactory to the first party, said sales-chip being stored on said proprietary database system, said sales-chip comprising a sales-chip database and a sales-chip subscriber database, said sales-chip database includes an identifier, said identifier being saved with said sales-chip upon said first party deeming said information retrieved by the search request to be satisfactory, said sales-chip subscriber database includes information for a second party; electronically sharing said sales-chip by said first party with said second party; retrieving and opening said sales-chip by said second party, wherein upon opening said sales-chip, said identifier in said sales-chip database is compared with said information for said second party in said sales-chip subscriber database; and electronically determining whether a second party association exists between said sales chip and said second party, wherein said second party association exists when said identifier in said sales-chip database is present and detected in said sales-chip subscriber database, wherein said second party association is absent when said identifier in said sales-chip database is absent from said sales-chip subscriber database; running the sales-chip and displaying the results to the second party when the second party association exists; alternatively, creating the second party association by copying the identifier from the sales-chip database to said sales-chip subscriber database when the second party association does not exist, and once said second party association is established, running said sales-chip and displaying results to the second party.