Method and Apparatus for Permitting Stage-Door Access to On-Line Vendor Information
AssigneePrivateer Ltd.
InventorsRichard G. Fuisz, Joseph M. Fuisz
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Abstract
The present invention provides Internet users with access to an on-line vendor that has detailed product information some or all of which is supplied by at least one product supplier. Through selected storage and sharing of data, an on-line store is married to a supplier's product database. The on-line vendor is able to provide greater product information at a vastly reduced cost. The product supplier is provided with a unique company forum in which company activities such as sales training can be consolidated with advertising activities and product information to provide the most economical and up-to-date training information for the company.
Claims8
An on-line vendor system, comprising:
- an on-line vendor system that may be selectively accessed by an on-line vendor user and comprising at least data relating to a selection of available products for sale by the on-line vendor and at least one database containing on-line vendor user information related to at least one of user preferences of on-line vendor users, product purchase trends of on-line vendor users and internal hits of on-line vendor users;
- a product supplier system maintained by a product supplier;
- a management system dynamically connecting the on-line vendor system and the product supplier system for selectively controlling access by the product supplier to the at least one database containing on-line vendor user information of the on-line vendor system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.