ELECTRONIC SAMPLE PALETTE SYSTEM AND FILTERS
First Claim
1. A system for generating design sample palettes over a network, comprising:
- a database storing design products related to a plurality of categories of commercial products from a plurality of manufacturers;
interface circuitry for displaying the plurality of categories of commercial products and filtering criteria that may be selected by a user;
a sample palette server in operative communication with the database and the interface circuitry that receives a user selection of one or more filtering criteria specifying one or more requested design features and generates a subset of the design products sharing at least one design feature in common with the requested design features;
filtering circuitry that filters the displayed plurality of categories of commercial products to include only design products from the subset of design products and causes the interface circuitry to display a second set of filtering criteria for the displayed plurality of categories of commercial products; and
sample palette generating circuitry that receives a user selection of a plurality of commercial products from the displayed subset of design products and generates a sample palette including graphical images of the plurality of commercial products.
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Abstract
The present embodiments provide systems for generating sample(s) requests, pricelists, technical data, and sample books orders over a network. In one embodiment, a database stores design products related to a plurality of categories of commercial products from a plurality of manufacturers. Interface circuitry displays the plurality of categories of commercial products along with filtering criteria that may be selected by a user. A sample palette server is in operative communication with the database and the interface circuitry and receives a user selection of one or more filtering criteria specifying one or more requested design features. The sample palette server generates a subset of the design products sharing at least one design feature in common with the requested design features. Filtering circuitry filters the displayed plurality of categories of commercial products to include only design products from the subset of design products and causes the interface circuitry to display a second set of filtering criteria for the displayed plurality of categories of commercial products. Sample palette generating circuitry receives a user selection of a plurality of commercial products from the displayed subset of design products and generates a sample palette including graphical images of the plurality of commercial products.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for generating design sample palettes over a network, comprising:
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a database storing design products related to a plurality of categories of commercial products from a plurality of manufacturers; interface circuitry for displaying the plurality of categories of commercial products and filtering criteria that may be selected by a user; a sample palette server in operative communication with the database and the interface circuitry that receives a user selection of one or more filtering criteria specifying one or more requested design features and generates a subset of the design products sharing at least one design feature in common with the requested design features; filtering circuitry that filters the displayed plurality of categories of commercial products to include only design products from the subset of design products and causes the interface circuitry to display a second set of filtering criteria for the displayed plurality of categories of commercial products; and sample palette generating circuitry that receives a user selection of a plurality of commercial products from the displayed subset of design products and generates a sample palette including graphical images of the plurality of commercial products. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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13. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for generating design sample palettes over a network, the storage medium comprising instructions operative for:
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displaying filtering criteria on a user interface and receiving a first selection of one or more filtering criteria; querying a database storing design product data using the selected filtering criteria; generating a set of design products sharing at least design feature in common with the requested design features and displaying the set of design products on the user interface; generating a second set of filtering criteria in response to the first selection of one or more filtering criteria and displaying the second set of filtering criteria on the user interface; receiving a second selection of one or more filtering criteria from the second set of filtering criteria; filtering the displayed set of design products subset of design products based on second selection and displaying only design products meeting the second selected filtering criteria; and generating a design sample palette including graphical images of at least one design product from the filtered displayed set of design products.
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15. A system for generating design sample palettes over a network, comprising a database storing a plurality of design products related to a plurality of categories of commercial products from a plurality of manufacturers;
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interface circuitry for displaying a subset of the plurality of design products on a user interface and receiving selection of one or more filtering criteria specifying one or more requested design features; a sample palette server in operative communication with the database and the interface circuitry that receives the selected filtering criteria and filters the displayed design products to include only those meeting the selected filtering criteria; sample palette generating circuitry that generates a sample palette including graphical images of design products from the filtered design products for display on the user interface, wherein the sample palette allows a user to add and delete additional design products from the sample palette from the filtered design products; and account authorization circuitry that verifies a user account is an authorized manufacturer representative and associates the user account'"'"'s activity and the generated sample palette with a manufacturer account.
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