SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY, RANK, AND AUDIT NETWORK PROVIDED CONFIGURABLES
First Claim
1. A computerized method for identifying, ranking, and auditing configurable providers, the method comprising:
- receiving and storing information about plural providers comprising provider name, provider URL, provider geographical locations, and descriptions of provider configurables;
receiving a request from a computer, the request comprising a geographic location;
searching the stored information about providers in order to identify a list of provider servers that auto-configure configurables in the geographic location;
sending the list of provider servers to the computer, the list including provider names, provider URLs, and descriptions of provider configurables; and
receiving auditing information from the computer comprising a provider server selected from the list and an indication of a selected configurable.
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Abstract
A computerized method for identifying, ranking, and auditing configurable providers is described. The method receives and stores information about plural providers including provider name, provider icon, provider contact information, landing URL, configurables offered, geographical locations, and descriptions of configurables. The method receives a request from a computer that includes a geographic location. The method searches the stored information about providers in order to identify a list of provider servers that auto-configure configurables in the geographic location. The method sends information and the list of provider servers to the computer, and the sent information includes provider names, provider rank, provider landing URL, and descriptions of configurables. The method receives auditing information from the computer including a provider server selected from the list, a transaction for a selected configurable, and an indication that the selected configurable is operational. The method ranks provider servers based upon ranking factors including audit information received from plural computers.
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20 Claims
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1. A computerized method for identifying, ranking, and auditing configurable providers, the method comprising:
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receiving and storing information about plural providers comprising provider name, provider URL, provider geographical locations, and descriptions of provider configurables; receiving a request from a computer, the request comprising a geographic location; searching the stored information about providers in order to identify a list of provider servers that auto-configure configurables in the geographic location; sending the list of provider servers to the computer, the list including provider names, provider URLs, and descriptions of provider configurables; and receiving auditing information from the computer comprising a provider server selected from the list and an indication of a selected configurable. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. On the Internet, plural communicating computers comprising:
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a referral server; plural provider servers; the referral server receives information about configurables offered by the plural provider servers, the received information including one or more configurables that a provider server auto-configures to operate with client computers based upon a geographical region of a client computer; the referral server responds to a request from a client computer wherein the request comprises a geographic region of the client computer and the response to the request includes a list of provider servers that auto-configure configurables in the geographic region, and the list includes for each provider server on the list, a provider name, a provider URL, and a description of a configurable; the referral server receives auditing information from the client computer, the auditing information comprising a provider server selected from the list and an indication of time for an auto-configuration of the selected configurable to become operational; and the referral server ranks provider servers based upon ranking factors comprising audit information received from client computers. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. A computer readable medium having thereon computer-executable instructions comprising:
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instructions for receiving and storing information about plural providers including provider name, provider icon, provider contact information, landing URL, configurables offered, geographical locations, and descriptions of configurables; instructions for receiving a request from a computer, the request comprising a geographic location and a technical requirement and the technical requirement was provide by the computer via user input received via a user interface and the geographic location was obtained from memory at the client computer; in response to the request, instructions for searching the stored information about providers in order to identify a list of provider servers that auto-configure configurables in the geographic location according to the technical requirement; instructions for sending information and the list of provider servers to the computer, the sent information including provider name, provider rank, provider landing URL, and description of provider configurables; instructions for receiving auditing information from the computer comprising a provider server selected from the list, a transaction for a selected configurable, and a timing metric for time to go operational; and instructions for ranking provider servers based upon ranking factors comprising audit information received from plural computers with auto-installed configurables. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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