Systems and methods for configuring and provisioning products
AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorJames Hastman
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure disclose systems and methods for providing order configuration platform that automatically enables communications service providers to define and configure products and/or services and subsequently offer such products and/or services to customers in near real-time. Additionally, the order configuration platform may enable customer to submit order for the various products and/or services. More particularly, one or more interactive interfaces, dynamically driven by a products catalog, may be generated that enable communications service providers to automatically process orders received from customers for such products.
Claims18
A communications product quoting and order entry system comprising:
- at least one processor to define at least one question corresponding to at least one product of a plurality of products defined in a product catalog;
- and
- a rendering engine to generate one or more user-interfaces for ordering the at least one product from the product catalog, the one or more user-interfaces displaying the product and the at least one question.
The system of claim 5, further comprising:
- when the input passed the one or more rules, generating an order and providing the order to a provisioning system capable of provisioning the product.
A method for quoting and ordering products comprising:
- defining, at at least one processor, at least one question corresponding to at least one product of a plurality of products defined in a product catalog;
- and
- generating, at the at least one processor, one or more user-interfaces for ordering the at least one product from the product catalog, the one or more user-interfaces displaying the product and the at least one question.
A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions for ordering products, the instructions, executable by a processor, comprising:
- defining at least one question corresponding to at least one product of a plurality of products defined in a product catalog;
- and
- generating one or more user-interfaces for ordering the at least one product from the product catalog, the one or more user-interfaces displaying the product and the at least one question.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.