Online procurement of biologically related products/services using interactive context searching of biological information
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1. A method of procuring biological content and their products and/or services listed on an electronic inventory file, wherein said inventory file is stored on at least one electronic storage medium which comprises a plurality of files comprising at least one segregated sundry grouping of target items, comprising:
- interfacing by at least one user via user terminals and bi-directional communication connections with at least one target item server which accesses said electronic storage medium, wherein extracts comprising at least one associated biological attribute are generated in said server for said target items in said electronic storage medium via an appropriate request;
inputting a request to generate said extracts;
retrieving said extracts;
and generating a page comprising at least one hierarchical menu output based on such extracts that provides said at least one user at least one subset of said target items stored on said electronic medium, wherein said at least one menu sorts said target items in said subset into a user accessible file of target items based on an empirical measure of similarity of said associated biological attributes for said sorted target items, and wherein the at least one hierarchical menu output display page identifies said target items sorted into each said file which have at least one associated biological attribute in common to enable said at least one user to differentiate products and/or services of interest stored on said electronic storage medium and to procure said differentiated products by activating an appropriate graphic user interface (GUI) comprising the displayed output page.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for procuring biologically related products available on a vendor Website are described which involve user-server interfacing with a Web based browser to retrieve database files representing available target products via processing biological context searches on named annotated text string databases.
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1. A method of procuring biological content and their products and/or services listed on an electronic inventory file, wherein said inventory file is stored on at least one electronic storage medium which comprises a plurality of files comprising at least one segregated sundry grouping of target items, comprising:
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interfacing by at least one user via user terminals and bi-directional communication connections with at least one target item server which accesses said electronic storage medium, wherein extracts comprising at least one associated biological attribute are generated in said server for said target items in said electronic storage medium via an appropriate request;
inputting a request to generate said extracts;
retrieving said extracts;
and generating a page comprising at least one hierarchical menu output based on such extracts that provides said at least one user at least one subset of said target items stored on said electronic medium, wherein said at least one menu sorts said target items in said subset into a user accessible file of target items based on an empirical measure of similarity of said associated biological attributes for said sorted target items, and wherein the at least one hierarchical menu output display page identifies said target items sorted into each said file which have at least one associated biological attribute in common to enable said at least one user to differentiate products and/or services of interest stored on said electronic storage medium and to procure said differentiated products by activating an appropriate graphic user interface (GUI) comprising the displayed output page. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A server configuration for procuring biological content and their products and/or services listed on an electronic inventory file, wherein said inventory file is stored on at least one electronic storage medium which comprises a plurality of files comprising at least one segregated sundry grouping of target items, comprising:
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interfacing by at least one user via user terminals and bi-directional communication connections with at least one target item server which accesses said electronic storage medium, wherein extracts comprising at least one associated biological attribute are generated in said server for said target items in said electronic storage medium via an appropriate request;
inputting a request to generate said extracts;
retrieving said extracts;
and generating a page comprising at least one hierarchical menu output based on such extracts that provides said at least one user at least one subset of said target items stored on said electronic medium, wherein said at least one menu sorts said target items in said subset into a user accessible file of target items based on an empirical measure of similarity of said associated biological attributes for said sorted target items, and wherein the at least one hierarchical menu output display page identifies said target items sorted into each said file which have at least one associated biological attribute in common to enable said at least one user to differentiate products and/or services of interest stored on said electronic storage medium and to procure said differentiated products by activating an appropriate graphic user interface (GUI) comprising the displayed output page. - View Dependent Claims (32)
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33. A method of offering a product or service to a user in a remote location comprising:
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i) remotely providing an electronic data server to said user;
ii) receiving an input from said user;
iii) processing said input to produce a first output;
iv) interfacing at least one public consortium database with at least one database proprietary to an offerer of said product or service;
v) selecting a first product or service or a link or description of a first product or service to create an extract; and
vi) outputting said extract to said user. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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