System, methods, and medium for facilitating providing a quote
OwnerKevin Carl Archibald, Gary Justin Dinmore +2inventors
InventorsKevin Carl Archibald, Gary Justin Dinmore, Thomas E. Krebsbach, Ronald Thomas DuKatz
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Abstract
A network based method for facilitating providing a customer with a quote for at least one of a manufactured product and a service includes receiving data relating to at least one of a customer desired product and a customer desired service, providing the customer a budgetary quote based on the received data, receiving a customer response based on the budgetary quote, and providing the customer a contractual quote based on the received customer response.
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A network based method for facilitating providing a customer with a quote for at least one of a manufactured product and a service, said method comprising:
- receiving data relating to at least one of a customer desired product and a customer desired service;
- providing the customer a budgetary quote based on the received data;
- receiving a customer response based on the budgetary quote;
- and
- providing the customer a contractual quote based on the received customer response.
A network based method for facilitating providing a customer with a quote for at least one of a medical product and a medical service, said method comprising:
- receiving data relating to at least one of a customer desired medical product and a customer desired medical service;
- publishing a budgetary quote as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document;
- loading the XML budgetary quote in a quote repository;
- sending an email alert to the customer, wherein said email alert comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) indicating a location of the published budgetary quote;
- providing the customer access to view the budgetary quote via the URL;
- receiving a customer response based on the budgetary quote;
- publishing a contractual quote as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document;
- loading the XML contractual quote in a quote repository;
- sending an email alert to the customer, wherein said email alert comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) indicating a location of the published contractual quote;
- providing the customer access to view the budgetary quote via the URL;
- and
- receiving a customer response comprising at least one of a message to a manufacturer, an acceptance of the contractual quote, and a denial of the contractual quote.
A network based system for providing a customer with a quote for at least one of a manufactured product and a service, said system comprising:
- at least one device;
- and
- a server connected to said device and configured to:
- receive data relating to at least one of a customer desired product and a customer desired service;
- provide the customer a budgetary quote based on the received data;
- receive a customer response based on the budgetary quote;
- and
- provide the customer a contractual quote based on the received customer response.
A network based system for providing a customer with a quote for at least one of a manufactured product and a service, said system comprising:
- at least one device;
- and
- a server connected to said device and configured to:
- receive data relating to at least one of a customer desired medical product and a customer desired medical service;
- publish a budgetary quote as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document;
- load the XML budgetary quote in a quote repository;
- send an email alert to the customer, wherein said email alert comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) indicating a location of the published budgetary quote;
- provide the customer access to view the budgetary quote via the URL;
- receive a customer response based on the budgetary quote;
- publish a contractual quote as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document;
- load the XML contractual quote in a quote repository;
- send an email alert to the customer, wherein said email alert comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) indicating a location of the published contractual quote;
- provide the customer access to view the budgetary quote via the URL;
- and
- receive a customer response comprising at least one of a message to a manufacturer, an acceptance of the contractual quote, and a denial of the contractual quote.
A computer readable medium encoded with a program executable by a computer for providing a customer with a quote for at least one of a manufactured product and a service, said program configured to instruct the computer to:
- receive data relating to at least one of a customer desired product and a customer desired service;
- provide the customer a budgetary quote based on the received data;
- receive a customer response based on the budgetary quote;
- and
- provide the customer a contractual quote based on the received customer response.
A computer readable medium encoded with a program executable by a computer for providing a customer with a quote for at least one of a manufactured product and a service, said program configured to instruct the computer to:
- receive data relating to at least one of a customer desired medical product and a customer desired medical service;
- publish a budgetary quote as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document;
- load the XML budgetary quote in a quote repository;
- send an email alert to the customer, wherein said email alert comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) indicating a location of the published budgetary quote;
- provide the customer access to view the budgetary quote via the URL;
- and
- receive a customer response based on the budgetary quote;
- publish a contractual quote as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document;
- load the XML contractual quote in a quote repository;
- send an email alert to the customer, wherein said email alert comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) indicating a location of the published contractual quote;
- provide the customer access to view the budgetary quote via the URL;
- and
- receive a customer response comprising at least one of a message to a manufacturer, an acceptance of the contractual quote, and a denial of the contractual quote.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.