Industrial equipment services marketing and sale system
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsBernhard Iffländer, Marion Jouffroy, Nickolaus Hönig
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Abstract
A plurality of services relating to either or both of the acquisition and use of industrial equipment, which can be quite bulky and is often expensive, are marketed (and may also be contracted for) by providing a mechanism for prospective and actual purchasers of industrial equipment, who visit an on-line marketplace where such equipment can be sold and purchased, to have on-line access to information generated by the provider(s) in response to purchaser requests. Relevant and valuable information relating to the request for and delivery of information are stored in a database for various purposes.
Claims26
A method for on-line marketing of services over a network to a purchaser of an item of industrial equipment, the services relating to the acquisition and/or use of the industrial equipment and coordinating the relocation thereof, the method comprising:
- providing an on-line marketplace including information relating to industrial equipment to the purchaser over the network;
- accepting information from the purchaser over the network and storing the information in a database registration;
- simultaneously displaying over the network the information relating to industrial equipment and at least two relocation services relating to the relocation of industrial equipment, the at least two relocation services provided by at least two different service providers;
- accepting over the network input from the purchaser identifying relocation services relating to an industrial equipment purchase for which the purchaser wishes to receive information;
- transmitting information to the purchaser relating to the relocation or acquisition services for the industrial equipment purchase over the network;
- accepting information from the purchaser relating to the nature of the equipment for which relocation or acquisition services information is to be received;
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- transmitting information over the network to at least one of the relocation service providers, said information relating to the nature of the equipment for which relocation services are to be rendered.
A method for on-line marketing of services to a prospective or actual purchaser of a piece of industrial equipment, the services relating to the acquisition and/or use of the industrial equipment and coordinating the relocation thereof, the method comprising:
- providing over a network to an on-line marketplace for industrial equipment information relating to industrial equipment and simultaneously displaying information related to at least two industrial equipment relocation services provided by at least two different service providers;
- receiving over a network from the on-line marketplace a code identifying the purchaser and information relating to the industrial equipment;
- transmitting over a network to the on-line service provider information responsive to a request from the purchaser, the information transmitted in conjunction with the purchaser identification code;
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- coordinating, over the network, relocation services for the industrial equipment.
A method for the on-line marketing of services relating to industrial equipment acquisition or use to a prospective or actual industrial equipment purchaser and coordinating the relocation thereof, the method comprising:
- providing an on-line industrial equipment service marketplace including providing information related to the purchase of an item of industrial equipment and simultaneously displayng information related to at least two relocation services for relocating the industrial equipment, the relocation services provided by at least two different service providers;
- accepting, from the purchaser, identifying information;
- storing the purchaser identifying information in a database;
- accepting, from the purchaser, input identifying selection of at least one of the relocation services regarding which the purchaser wishes to receive information;
- accepting, from the purchaser, information concerning industrial equipment for which the at least one selected relocation service is sought;
- transmitting a purchaser identification code, information concerning the at least one selected industrial equipment service and the industrial equipment information to at least one provider of the selected service;
- receiving, from the at least one service provider, information responsive to the transmitted information;
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- transmitting to the purchaser the responsive information from the at least one service provider for purchaser consideration.
A system for providing the on-line marketing of services relating to industrial equipment acquisition or use to a prospective or actual industrial equipment purchaser and coordinating the relocation thereof, comprising:
- means for providing an on-line industrial equipment service marketplace including providing information related to the purchase of an item of industrial equipment and simultaneously displayng information related to at least two relocation services for relocating the industrial equipment, the relocation services provided by at least two different service providers;
- means for accepting, from the purchaser, identifying information;
- means storing the purchaser identifying information in a database;
- means for accepting, from the purchaser, input identifying selection of at least one of the relocation services regarding which the purchaser wishes to receive information and information concerning industrial equipment for which the at least one selected service is sought;
- means for transmitting a purchaser identification code, information concerning the at least one selected relocation service and the industrial equipment information to at least one provider of the selected service;
- means for receiving, from the at least one service provider, information responsive to the transmitted information;
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- means for transmitting to the purchaser the responsive information from the at least one service provider for purchaser consideration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.