Patent ID: 7185272

Claim:
A system for automatically filling in web enabled forms in web pages comprising: (a) a plurality of supplier web sites operatively coupled to the Internet, each web site having searchable supplier databases and web pages with web enabled forms; (b) a first computer operatively coupled to the Internet and having the following applications loaded therein, namely (i) a web browser application, (ii) a web information database file, said information database containing information relating to the supplies in a plurality of information fields including an address field having the web address of the supplier and a soft coding field having the particular soft coding instructions required by the web browser application to log onto supplier's web site, navigate the supplier's web site, populate the supplier's web enabled forms and generate searches on the supplier's database; (iii) a web agent application, the web agent application configured to read the web information database file and display information concerning the suppliers in a graphical user interface, the web agent application being further configured to generate a search of the information contained in the web information database file relating to at least one search criteria and to generate a packet of information corresponding to the search, said packet of information containing a least one supplier name and the search criteria; (iv) a web interact application configured to read information from the web information database file and to read the packet of information from the web agent application, said web interact application being further configured to launch the web browser application to open a browser window for the supplier listed in the information packet, the web interact application being further configured to cause the browser application to navigate to the supplier web sites using information read from the web information database, the web interact application being further configured to use the soft coding to cause the web browser application to log onto the supplier web site and populate web enable forms on the supplier web site, the web interact application being further configured to use the soft coding to cause the web browser application to perform a search on the supplier's database using the search criteria and to display the search results in the browser window.