US 7,599,860 B2Granted

Customized sales software and implementation

AssigneeVacava Inc.

InventorsTerrance J. Bird, Evan Charles Harter, III

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Abstract

Customized sales software for consolidating, organizing and integrating data and process flow in a manner especially suited for sales operations. The customized sales software is customized to represent the user company's business process and integrates the user company's applications and data but does not change the user company's existing applications or databases. The sales software is designed in layers to enable seamless integration of legacy systems and external data sources, without requiring change to them, while at the same time enabling the introduction of new interfaces, transactions and processes. Integration with legacy systems and external data sources is possible at different layers within the software and may or may not utilize existing legacy system applications and processes. Generally speaking, integration with legacy systems and data sources may be either one or two way or in real time, depending on the requirements of a particular business process.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for integrating data and process flow of a sales system with a legacy system of a third party, the method comprising:

determining a configuration of the legacy system, including identifying legacy sales processes performed by the legacy system and legacy sales databases stored on the legacy system;
mapping preexisting sales applications of the sales system for performing predefined sales-related functionality and preexisting sales databases of the sales system to the legacy system based on the configuration of the legacy system, including identifying a subset of the legacy sales processes to replace with preexisting sales applications and identifying a subset of the legacy sales databases to replace with preexisting sales databases;
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replacing the subset of the legacy sales processes with the preexisting sales applications and the subset of the legacy sales databases with the preexisting sales databases, wherein data is communicated between the preexisting sales databases and the legacy sales databases.

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Facts

Application: 11/107,306Filed 15 Apr 2005 · us provisional application
Priority: 16 Apr 2004
Published: US 2005/0234777 A120 Oct 2005
Granted: 6 Oct 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06Q 30/00
Commerce
G06Q 20/204
Point-of-sale [POS] network systems: comprising interface for record bearing medium or carrier for electronic funds transfer or payment credit
G06Q 30/06
Commerce: buying, selling or leasing transactions
G06Q 30/0621
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: by configuring or customising goods or services