Internet-based system for managing and delivering consumer product information at points along the world wide web using consumer product information (CPI) requesting and graphical user interface (GUI) displaying subsystems driven by server-side components and managed by consumer product manufacturers and/or authorized parties

US7533040B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• IPF Corporation · US

Inventor

• Thomas Perkowski · Darien, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 28, 2005
• Grant date: May 12, 2009
• Expiry date: Apr 7, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W4/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An Internet-based system for managing and delivering consumer product information (CPI) to consumers at points of presence along the World Wide Web (WWW). The Internet-based system includes a subsystem for generating a CPI-requesting and GUI-display subsystem for each registered consumer product, and implemented by: (i) CPIR-enabling servlet stored on and executed within an object-oriented server; and (ii) an HTML servlet tag referencing the CPIR-enabling servlet, and embedded within one or more HTML-encoded pages served by a plurality of Web-based information servers. When an embedded HTML servlet tag is encountered by teh consumer's Web browser, the corresponding CPI-requesting and GUI-displaying subsystem generates an object-oriented controlled GUI that displays information content associated with CPI resources served from one or more of the Internet-based CPI servers, for display and review by the consumer at the point of presence along the WWW where the HTML servlet tag has been encountered by the Web browser.