Method and system for designing and ordering custom printed promotional items using the internet
OwnerPatricia M. Mulvey, Michael A. Goudreau +1inventors
InventorsPatricia M. Mulvey, Michael A. Goudreau, Gina L. Piarulli
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Abstract
A method and system for designing printed promotional items are disclosed. The method includes providing onto a computer network first information concerning a plurality of possible characteristics of a printed promotional item. The method further includes receiving from the computer network second information submitted by a user customer and concerning a desired characteristic of the printed promotional item. The method additionally includes providing onto the computer network third information concerning a proposed design for the printed promotional item for review by the user customer.
Claims21
A method of designing printed promotional items comprising:
- providing onto a first local computer network first information concerning a plurality of possible characteristics of a printed promotional item;
- providing communication between the first local computer network and a second local computer network;
- receiving on the first local computer network from the second local computer network second information submitted by a user customer remote from the first local computer network concerning a desired characteristic of the printed promotional item;
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- providing onto the second local computer network from the first local computer network third information concerning a proposed design for the printed promotional item for review by the user customer.
A method of designing and ordering a printed promotional item, the method comprising:
- providing a first web page onto the Internet, wherein the first web page includes at least a first field within which a user customer identity can be specified;
- receiving first information including an identifier indicative of a particular user customer identity;
- providing a second web page onto the Internet, wherein the second web page includes a list of different printed promotional items;
- receiving second information indicative of a particular printed promotional item selected from the list of different printed promotional items;
- providing a third web page onto the Internet, wherein the third web page includes at least one of a second field and a list of selectable characteristics;
- receiving third information indicative of a specified characteristic for the particular printed promotional item, wherein the third information is one of specified information that was entered by the user customer into the second field and selected information that was selected by the user customer from the list of selectable characteristics.
A system for designing and ordering printed promotional items:
- a processing means for executing a web server application program, storing a set of web pages, and communicating with user customer computers via the Internet,
- wherein the processing means is capable of sending web page information onto the Internet and is capable of receiving user customer-provided information off of the Internet, and
- wherein the set of web pages includes a first web page having information concerning a plurality of possible characteristics of at least one printed promotional item, and a second web page including an order form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.