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US 2014/0279267 A1Published application
Methods and apparatus for aggregating, displaying, and promoting branded commodities from multiple vendors
AssigneeDiamond Review, Inc.
InventorHermann P. Calabria
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Abstract
The present invention is related to receiving, storing, and displaying commodities, and more particularly to promoting branded commodities within a commodity search engine which may contain a great number of unbranded and branded commodities.
Claims18
A computer-controlled method implemented in a multi-vendor commodity search engine server comprising:
- receiving a search request, said search request responsive to input from a user into a multi-vendor commodity search engine input form, and said search request containing at least one instruction for filtering or sorting by at least one branded commodity;
- executing said search request, said server searching a commodities database and filtering or sorting by the at least one branded commodity;
- and
- transmitting a search result, said search result responsive to said search request, and containing information relating to at least one branded commodity.
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A multi-vendor commodity search engine server comprising:
- an interface for receiving a search request, said search request responsive to input from a user into a multi-vendor commodity search engine input form and said search request containing at least one instruction for filtering or sorting by at least one branded commodity, and for transmitting a search result, said search result responsive to said search request and containing information to at least one branded commodity;
- and,
- a search engine for executing said search request and creating said search result, said search engine searching a commodities database and filtering or sorting by the at least one branded commodity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.