Method for inserting a contact

• US 20100030812A1
• Filed: 10/05/2009
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HP PPS Austria GmbH (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hiflex Software GmbH (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Reichhart, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US12/587,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20100030812A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: N/A
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for inserting a contact, which is defined in a procurement system, into an individual list of contacts for a buyer in the procurement system. In order to insert the contact of a supplier known to a buyer into the list of the buyer automatically, it is proposed that the procurement system reads out an identification feature from an address and inserts the contact into the list, when the buyer accesses the address, which contains the identification feature of the contact, and logs into the procurement system.

Claims

1. A method for inserting a contact, which is defined in a procurement system, into an individual list of contacts for a buyer in the procurement system, wherein the procurement system reads out an identification feature from an address and inserts the contact into the list, when the buyer accesses the address, which contains the identification feature of the contact, and logs into the procurement system.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the address is provided to the buyer in the form of a URI by a supplier with whom the contact is associated.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the identification feature is integrated into the address as a parameter.

4. A method according to claim 2, wherein the identification feature is integrated into the address as a parameter.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the procurement system initially saves the identification feature into a file on a local workstation of the buyer, when the address is accessed, and only fetches the file from the workstation after login, reads the identification feature from the file after transmission of the file through the workstation, and inserts the contact into the list.

6. A method according to claim 2, wherein the procurement system initially saves the identification feature into a file on a local workstation of the buyer, when the address is accessed, and only fetches the file from the workstation after login, reads the identification feature from the file after transmission of the file through the workstation, and inserts the contact into the list.

7. A method according to claim 3, wherein the procurement system initially saves the identification feature into a file on a local workstation of the buyer, when the address is accessed, and only fetches the file from the workstation after login, reads the identification feature from the file after transmission of the file through the workstation, and inserts the contact into the list.

8. A method according to claim 4, wherein the procurement system initially saves the identification feature into a file on a local workstation of the buyer, when the address is accessed, and only fetches the file from the workstation after login, reads the identification feature from the file after transmission of the file through the workstation, and inserts the contact into the list.