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System and method for configuring products over a communications network

  • US 20060242023A1
  • Filed: 06/20/2006
  • Published: 10/26/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. The network-based method for a supplier to promote the sale of a specialty component by providing promotional information concerning the specialty component and technical support information to a customer for the manufacture of at least a portion of products from different formulations comprising the specialty component and other various constituent components, said method comprising the acts of:

  • providing a computer database of promotional information concerning the specialty component and technical support information for said different formulations comprising the specialty component and other various constituent components including said specialty component for making at least of portion of said products;

    providing an output to the customer over the network of said promotional information;

    providing an output to the customer over the network of an offer to sell the specialty component;

    accepting input from the customer over the network indicative of a product and a set of characteristics of at least one of said different formulations for making at least a portion of one of said products;

    selecting at least one of said different formulations for making at least a portion of one of said products in the database matching said input;

    providing an output to the customer over the network of technical support information for making the at least one of said different formulations selected including the identification of the specialty component and the opportunity to use the other of said various constituent components in different combinations;

    accepting input from the customer selecting at least one of said different combinations of the other of said various constituent components to be used with the specialty component so as to create at least one trial formulation; and

    providing to the customer over the network a list of the other of said various constituent components and performance characteristics for the at least one trial formulation, said performance characteristics being substantially consistent with and supplemental to said set of characteristics accepted from the customer.

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