Method for administering certification data
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1. A method for permitting a person to request certification information with the aid of a certification symbol that has been allocated to a resource by a certifying organization, the certification symbol having a check region, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) using a web browser of an Internet access device, together with a web address specified in an address field of the check region of the certification symbol, to access a web-server arrangement of the certifying organization over the Internet, and to enter a specific identification number that appears in an ID field of the check region into an input box on a web page received from the web-server arrangement, the Internet access device being operated by the person requesting certification information;
(b) transmitting the identification number to the web-server arrangement over the Internet;
(c) formulating a database search request based on the identification number and transmitting the database search request to a database that is coupled to the web-server arrangement, the database search request being formulated by the web-server arrangement;
(d) reading certification information associated with the identification number out of the database; and
(e) transmitting the certification information over the Internet from the web-server arrangement to the Internet access device.
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Abstract
The invention permits requests for certification information for a certification that has been performed for a product, a service, a system, an organizational process, etc. For this purpose, an Internet address and an identification number appear in a check region of a certification symbol issued by the testing institute. With the identification number, a data record associated with the certification can be accessed from a database that is accessible via the Internet.
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35 Claims
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1. A method for permitting a person to request certification information with the aid of a certification symbol that has been allocated to a resource by a certifying organization, the certification symbol having a check region, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) using a web browser of an Internet access device, together with a web address specified in an address field of the check region of the certification symbol, to access a web-server arrangement of the certifying organization over the Internet, and to enter a specific identification number that appears in an ID field of the check region into an input box on a web page received from the web-server arrangement, the Internet access device being operated by the person requesting certification information;
(b) transmitting the identification number to the web-server arrangement over the Internet;
(c) formulating a database search request based on the identification number and transmitting the database search request to a database that is coupled to the web-server arrangement, the database search request being formulated by the web-server arrangement;
(d) reading certification information associated with the identification number out of the database; and
(e) transmitting the certification information over the Internet from the web-server arrangement to the Internet access device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A system for fulfilling a request by a person for certification information about a certification symbol that has been allocated to a resource by a certifying organization, the certification symbol having a check region and the request being communicated over the Internet, said system comprising:
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a web-server arrangement that stores a predetermined web page with an input region for the person to input an identification number that appears in an ID field of the check region of the certification symbol, the predetermined web page having a web address that is specified in an address field of the check region or being one of a plurality of linked-together web pages stored by the web-server arrangement, with one of the linked-together web pages having the web address that is specified in the address field of the check region; and
a web database server having a database in which certification information relating to a plurality of different identification numbers is stored, the web database server receiving a database search request that has been formulated by the web-server arrangement on the basis of the identification number input by the person, and returning certification information corresponding to the input identification number to the web-server arrangement for transfer over the Internet to the person. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35)
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- 33. The system of claim 33, wherein the web-server arrangement comprises a web application server that is decoupled from the Internet when the database stored in the web database server is being updated.
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