Process of searching required materiel under a protocol mode

• US 20050240573A1
• Filed: 04/26/2004
• Published: 10/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Chien, Chih-Hung
• Application Number:
  US10/832,206
• Publication Number:
  US 20050240573A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation

Abstract

A process of searching materiel and supplies under a protocol mode acquires materiel information via a data interchange platform between buyers and suppliers. According to a materiel attribute description rule, a product complying with the materiel attribute description rules can be found in product databases of suppliers. The process includes sending a request of searching the required materiel to the data interchange platform. The data interchange platform activates a protocol mode according to the request. The product information about the required materiel is obtained according to the materiel attribute description rules after the search has been completed. A reply request is then sent to the data interchange platform. The reply request is linked to a component part database. Then, the product information of the required materiel adds to the component part database.

Claims

1. A process of searching materiel and supplies under a protocol mode, operable to acquire materiel information via a data interchange platform, the process comprising:

sending a search request of a required materiel to the data interchange platform;

receiving the search request, and activating the protocol mode according to the search request;

searching a product database according to a materiel attribute description rule to obtain a product information of the required materiel, and then sending a reply request to the data interchange platform;

receiving the reply request and linking to a component part database according to the reply request; and

adding the product information of the required materiel to the component part database.

2. The process of claim 1, wherein linking of the data interchange platform is achieved via Internet.

3. The process of claim 1, wherein the data interchange platform is a Web-based system.

4. The process of claim 1, wherein the form of each of the search request and the reply request is one selected from the group consisting of an email, a computer a command, and a digitally signed document.

5. The process of claim 1, wherein the protocol mode further comprising:

checking an account that is inputted by the user;

certifying a password for the account; and

linking to the database when the password is correct.

6. The process of claim 1, wherein the component part database includes an attribute database and a supplier database.

7. The process of claim 6, wherein the attribute database includes component part specifications and electric characteristics of the materiel.