US 7,890,382 B2 · Recursive method and system for accessing classification information

Abstract

A web based menu system that allows the users such as buyers and sellers to locate, purchase, and sell goods, items and services easily without any search queries. The knowledge base of the system increases with user interaction at variable levels. The database contains an orderly classification of goods and services throughout. Point-and-click technology can be used to navigate through a series of menus. The system can also respond to voice activation and recognition commands. At the web site, the user first selects a category followed by a selection of makes, items, or services called a Sub-Category that relate to the category. The system responds by displaying a uniform series of menus referred to as a “Fluidity of Taxonomy”. This process repeats until the user reaches the finite end of the menu series. Next, the system completes the interaction based upon if the user is a buyer or a seller. For buyers, the database is accessed resulting in a list of ads based upon the user's accumulated menu selections. The user can filter and sort the presentation of ads based on various criteria and place requests for instant notification of subsequent new ad placements. Banner ads that are applicable to the buyers' area of interest are also presented by the system. For sellers, an input form for ad placement is presented based upon the user's accumulated menu selections. Sellers can also grow the database based on their menu selections and form input. The system can be used for retrieving any orderly classification of information.

A method of accessing classification information of data, objects, or items from chosen classifications on a recursive web based system or application through a device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application, until a finite selection point is achieved for the chosen classifications without inputting any search queries, comprising the steps of:

providing a device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application that is selected from at least one of a conventional computer, laptop, PDA(personal digital assistant) device, cell phone, pager, and any other wireless or non-wireless device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application,
providing a recursive web based system or application having data, objects, or items from different classifications, wherein the different data, objects, or items are listed according to classifications chosen,
providing menu pages that lead to different data, objects, or items by classifications from like and unlike categories, wherein the menu page sequencing to access and view the different data, objects, or items by classifications is established by a knowledge engineer of a category,
accessing and viewing the web based system or application having a first main menu page of category headings of the data, objects, or items from the different classifications by a device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application;
first selecting and viewing at least one of the category headings on the first main menu page on a device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application;
accessing and viewing a second menu page having first subcategory headings from the first selecting step on the device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application;
second selecting and viewing at least one of the first subcategory headings on the device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application;
accessing and viewing a third menu page having second subcategory headings from the second selecting step on the device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application, the second subcategory headings being solely listed in a single vertical column on the third menu page with separate second subcategory headings solely on each line;
third selecting and viewing at least one of the second subcategory headings by scrolling down the single vertical column on the third menu page on the device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application;
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repeating accessing and selecting and viewing by solely scrolling down only one single vertical column on each successive menu page on the device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application until the end of a menu series to a finite selection list of the classification that is listed in a single vertical column of selected data, objects, or items from chosen classification, wherein interaction of the accessing of the first page, the second page, the third page, and the first selecting, the second selecting, and the third selecting are navigated on the device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application without inputting any search queries;
viewing the single column of the finite selection list of the classification by scrolling down the finite selection list of the selected data, objects, or items from the chosen classification on the device that supports accessing and viewing a web based system or application, without inputting of any search queries;
requesting an unlisted classification data, object, or item from the web based system or application, the unlisted data, object, or item being selected from the chosen classification;
notifying by generating instant notification to a device chosen to receive the notification when the unlisted data, object, or item has been placed in the chosen classification of the web based system or application, which matches the unlisted data, object, or item;
providing a device to receive notifications that is selected from at least one of a conventional computer, laptop, PDA(personal digital assistant) device, cell phone, pager, and any other wireless or non-wireless device that can receive notifications, where notifications include but are not limited to:
e-mail, text message, or paging, and
allowing a response to the notification of the unlisted data, object, or item placed in the chosen classification, such as but not limited to:
purchasing, updating, registering for, approving information.

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