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Method for providing a rapid internet search

  • US 6,393,417 B1
  • Filed: 10/15/1999
  • Issued: 05/21/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for providing a rapid internet search for participating vendors, each having an internet website comprising the steps of:

  • a user creating an inquiry defined by a fingerprint of information containing information categorized as parameters product detail information in accordance with a master plan, the parameters of the master plan being annotated in a number of converging cones of information, each corresponding to a different parameter, each cone having a number of planes at which details of a parameter are encoded with the parameter being the sum of the details, and such that all parameters associated with all cones are used in the query fingerprint;

    for each participating vendor, storing information associated with a vendor in accordance with the master plan and coded in a way so as to permit matching of parameters of a participating vendor with those of a fingerprint; and

    , upon a match, transmitting the website of the matching vendor to the user, wherein a user can make a targeted request, returned to the user with the website of the participating vender having the closest match to the user'"'"'s fingerprint.

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