Methods and apparatus for on-line ordering
OwnerPeter A. Burton, Dror Segalinventors
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Abstract
Systems and methods for ordering supplies from suppliers or for other e-commerce activities are described. Standards for placing orders and registering catalog information in a database are described. Systems and methods for placing orders, preprocessing supplier information using geographic information, conducting data searches and analyses locally on user access devices, continuously updating displays of browser frames, tracking orders using accounting codes, placing graphical custom orders, submitting graphical orders to suppliers, placing group orders, reducing risks associated with delinquent accounts receivable, and combinations thereof are described.
Claims20
A method for identifying data objects in a client browser using functions, said browser communicating with a server system via an electronic communication network, said method comprising:
- transferring at least one data object and at least one function from said server system to said browser;
- and
- identifying at least one of said at least one data object using said function.
A system for identifying data objects in a client browser using functions, comprising:
- means for transferring at least one data object and at least one function from a server system to a browser via an electronic communication network;
- and
- means for identifying at least one of said at least one data object using said function,
- said means for transferring and said means for identifying in communication via an electronic communication system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.