Computer-assisted system for interactively brokering goods or services between buyers and sellers
Patent 5592375 Issued on January 7, 1997. Estimated Expiration Date: 
March 11, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
March 11, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 212349 filed on 03/11/1994US Classes:705/7, Operations research705/9, Staff scheduling or task assignment705/22, Inventory monitoring707/5Query augmenting and refining (e.g., inexact access)ExaminersPrimary: Weinhardt, Robert A.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesG06F 017/60G06F 019/00 AbstractA computer-implemented system for brokering transactions between sellers and a buyer of goods or services, including a database, a seller interface, and a buyer's interface. The database contains information, including multimedia information, descriptive of respective ones of the goods or services. The seller interface enables the sellers to interactively enter information, including multimedia information, into the database. The buyer's interface provides a knowledge-based interactive protocol, enabling the buyer to select and review the descriptive information from the database, and makes perceptible the multimedia information in response to an interactive buyer request.Other References
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