Schechinger/Fennell System and method for filtering search results by utilizing user-selected parametric values from a self-defined drop-down list on a website"

a system for organizing, processing, locating, and comparing products appropriate to the user's specific needs comprising:

• a. a computer terminal connected to the internet,
• b. a storage means for storing data on a digital or electronic storage medium,
• c. an algorithmic logic circuit configured to prepare the storage medium to store the data,
• d. an algorithmic logic circuit for locating the stored product and product specification data,
• e. an algorithmic logic circuit by which the stored data may be associated with one or more field names or headings,
• f. an algorithmic logic circuit for retrieval and display of located data in a user-manipulated spreadsheet display in a single- or multiple-page layout in which the records as named or described by the field heading under which it exists appear in a drop-down list along with the number of examples of each record,
• g. an algorithmic logic circuit enabling user-selection of specific records in the located data,
• h. an algorithmic logic circuit enabling the simultaneous selection of all examples sharing all of the combined user-selected records for all the fields existing in the stored data
• i. an algorithmic logic circuit enabling user-selection or parameters
• whereby specific data or combinations of specific data for a given item may be compared with like data or combinations of specific data for other items of a like kind according to user-specified criteria, by means of infinitely manipulable fields, each with its own associated data records.