Automated retail website creation
US7386490B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 10, 2001 |
| Grant date | Jun 10, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 11, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q30/0641
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A website constructing tool for retailers streamlines and substantially automates the task of creating a website for retailers that buy their merchandise from a plurality of vendors. The system avoids the laborious, painstaking, unstructured and unformatted approach to the creation of a retailer website by enabling a retailer website to be constructed by resetting certain criteria and formats for the graphic design and merchandise categories and selection. Thereafter, the system enables substantially automatic selection of the relevant merchandise information from the databases or websites of the vendors, in a manner which populates and inserts into the retailer website the relevant information about available merchandise meeting the criteria, format and organization of the retailer website.
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