Wireless quotation platform and method thereof

• US 20040068463A1
• Filed: 06/09/2003
• Published: 04/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Muller Capital LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Muller Capital LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Shih, Jonathan C.
• Application Number:
  US10/456,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20040068463A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

This invention proposes a wireless quotation platform and method employing Wireless Local Area Network (abbreviated as WLAN) for transmitting the quotation requirements from the client to the server (comprising a quotation service Web site and a quotation processing system) via WLAN connections, generating the quotation results and transmitting the results to operation terminals.

Claims

1. A wireless quotation platform system which transmits the user-input quotation requirements from the client to the server to execute the quotation process to dynamically generate the quotation results via WLAN connections comprising:

an operation terminal at the client side which provides the selection and input of quotation requirements, the browsing of quotation-related information to the users;

a quotation processing system at the server side which receives and parses the quotation from the quotation service Web site to generate the data pages of the quotation results; and

a quotation service Web site at the server side which connects to an operation terminal and a quotation processing, sends the received quotation results to the quotation processing system, and returns the received data pages of the quotation results to the operation terminal.

2. The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the quotation service Web site sends the quotation requirements to the quotation processing system via a set of APIs.

3. The system in accordance with claim 1, wherein the said quotation service Web site comprises a content database storing all quotation-related information which can be browsed by users via operation terminals.

4. A wireless quotation method which sends the user-inputted quotation requirements from the client to the server to execute the quotation process and generate the quotation results via WLAN connections comprising:

establishing a connection between an operation terminal and a quotation service Web site;

providing a quotation requirement to the said operation terminal and transmitting the requirement to the quotation service Web site;

receiving the quotation requirements and transmitting the requirements to a quotation processing system to parse the said requirements;

obtaining the quotation results, transforming the said results into data pages, and returning the data pages to the quotation service Web site; and

returning the data pages of the quotation results to the said operation terminal to display.

5. The method in accordance with claim 4, wherein the steps to provide a quotation requirement to the operation terminal and transmit the requirement to the quotation service Web site when the requirement is a standard quotation comprising:

transmitting and displaying an input menu of EMS models;

receiving and storing the put in EMS model;

transmitting and displaying an input menu of delivery models;

receiving and storing the put in delivery model;

generating a standard quotation requirement;

confirming the inputs; and

generating the quotation requirement.

6. The method in accordance with claim 4, which comprises the steps to enable the users to input next quotation requirement when the users do not confirm all inputs.

7. The method in accordance with claim 4, wherein when the said requirement is a customized quotation requirement, the generation of the said quotation requirement in the steps to provide a quotation requirement to the said operation terminal and transmit the said requirement to the quotation service Web site comprises:

transmitting and displaying an input menu of EMS models;

receiving and storing the put in EMS model;

transmitting and displaying an input menu of delivery models;

receiving and storing the put in delivery model;

transmitting and display an input menu of a customized quotation;

receiving and storing the content of the customized quotation;

generating a customized quotation requirement;

confirming the inputs; and

generating the quotation requirement.

8. The method in accordance with claim 7, which comprises the step to enable the users to input next quotation requirement when the users do not confirm all inputs.

9. The method in accordance with claim 4, wherein the generation of the data pages of standard quotation requirements in the steps to extract the quotation results, transform the said results into the data pages and return the data pages to the quotation service Web site comprises:

reading the content of the parsed quotation requirements;

extracting the corresponding quotation rules and parameters according to the standard quotation requirements to execute the quotation process;

generating the standard quotation results;

transforming the quotation results into data pages;

returning the data pages of the quotation results to the quotation service Web site; and

sending a notification of the finish of the quotation process to the quotation service Web site.

10. The method in accordance with claim 4, wherein the generation of the data pages of customized quotation requirements in the steps to extract the quotation results, transform the said results into the data pages and return the data pages to the quotation service Web site comprises:

reading the content of the parsed quotation requirements;

extracting and adjusting the corresponding quotation rules and parameters according to the customized quotation requirements to execute the quotation process;

generating the customized quotation results;

transforming the quotation results into data pages;

returning the data pages of the quotation results to the quotation service Web site; and

sending a notification of the finish of the quotation process to the quotation service Web site.