Method and Process of Procurement of Information about Items and the Population of Personal Inventory or (Global) Consignment Node Databases and Associated Item Search Capabilities
First Claim
1. I hereby claim the unique, novel, unexpected and not encountered in prior art method and process of environmental electronic automatic procurement of information suitable for insertion into consignment node or personal inventory node database(s) describing the existence of diverse vendor and model type electronic devices, in the possession of an individual in the proximity of his/her posting/search/access terminal, by explicit or implicit, direct or indirect detection of the said devices using arbitrary networking or connectivity protocols or inference/guessing rules.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for automated procurement of information about electronic items such that the information is to be used in the population of consignment or personal inventory node database entries in a network of consignment nodes or personal inventory nodes for used and collectible electronic goods having inherent electronic networking capability using arbitrary set of protocol stacks/protocols. The invention describes a novel and unexpected use of a plurality of low cost posting/search/access terminals (laptops, PCs, PDAs, SUN computers etc) that had been so far used as manual entry stations serving the purpose of manual population of the said consignment node or personal social networking profiles by humans. The novelty of the invention describes the unexpected use of such terminals as themselves being the subject and source of automatically gleaned information suitable for the population of global consignment or personal inventory node databases. The present invention additionally claims the method and process of searching for and search methods used to find tangible electronic assets.
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- 1. I hereby claim the unique, novel, unexpected and not encountered in prior art method and process of environmental electronic automatic procurement of information suitable for insertion into consignment node or personal inventory node database(s) describing the existence of diverse vendor and model type electronic devices, in the possession of an individual in the proximity of his/her posting/search/access terminal, by explicit or implicit, direct or indirect detection of the said devices using arbitrary networking or connectivity protocols or inference/guessing rules.
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12. I claim the provisioning in any electronic device of a user interface (physical or downloadable or as a standalone application) with the associated underlying capability to generate or obtain the device'"'"'s and possibly other device'"'"'s technical description for e-commerce (suitable for injection in consignment or personal inventory nodes) such that the user interface enables automatic one click listing/publishing/injection of the electronic device'"'"'s (and potentially also of other electronic devices'"'"', detected in its vicinity) e-commerce relevant characteristics into a number of consignment nodes, where the device(s) listing/depiction information automatically injected/published/listed this way becomes associated with the email address or a unique identifier or a profile of the owner of the said device(s) where their owner wishes to receive offers related to them without the need to manually create or author web pages with such a listing.
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13. I claim the unusual, unexpected and non-obvious use of posting terminals that minimizes or even obliterates the need for human and manual gathering and authoring of the information injectable into the various types of consignment node-like/personal inventory node-like databases and that provides for enormous proliferation of very accurate entries about tangible eAssets/eItems/eDevices that the terminals and their surrounding eAssets/eItems/eDevices represent.
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