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Method and system for selecting product colors

  • US 6,507,824 B1
  • Filed: 11/30/1999
  • Issued: 01/14/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for allowing a potential purchaser to specify a custom color to a vendor, the method being implemented through a potential purchaser computer coupled to a vendor host computer system by a network, the method comprising:

  • receiving at the vendor host computer system a request to specify a custom color from the potential purchaser computer;

    providing the potential purchaser computer with a custom color request form;

    receiving at the vendor host computer system a custom color request specification from the potential purchaser computer, said custom color request specification being based on entries in said custom color request form, said vendor host computer system assigning a unique identifier to said custom color request specification;

    presenting said unique identifier to said potential purchaser computer;

    said presenting said unique identifier to said potential purchaser computer presents said unique identifier in machine readable form;

    receiving at the vendor a physical sample of a product having the custom color from the potential purchaser;

    said unique identifier in machine readable form being included along with said sample received by the vendor.

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