System for categorizing inventory and securing purchase and sale

US8660921B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Silvaris Corporation · US

Inventors

• Scott Joseph Bean · Seattle, US
• Steven John Malloy · Redmond, US
• Steven Allen Hull · Snoqualmie, US
• Robert Scoverski · Seattle, US
• Cameron Daniel Knudson · Seattle, US
• Kurtis Reed Bray · Mercer Island, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 9, 2006
• Grant date: Feb 25, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 8, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/2455
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method implemented by a first party to facilitate a sale by a second party of at least a subset of a set of items includes contractually committing, at a first time, to the second party to purchase title in the item subset, generating a displayable user interface accessible over a network to the second party, the user interface operable to allow the second party to input information describing the items, receiving the information over the network, and issuing via the network, at a second time of the first party's choosing and subsequent to the first time, a purchase order to the second party for the item subset. Alternatively, the purchase order may be issued by the second party at a second time of the second party's choosing and subsequent to the first time.