Appeal No. 2006-2376
Application No. 09/877,612
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to system and method to create customized product
catalogs. See page 3 of appellants’ specification. Claim 1 is representative of the
invention and is reproduced below:
1. A method for creating a customized product catalog, comprising:
receiving a request from a customer to search an electronic catalog
maintained by a supplier comprised of data representative of a plurality of
products each having one or more attributes, the search request including at least
one customer-specified attribute of interest;
examining the data to identify the products in the electronic catalog that
have an attribute corresponding to the customer-specified attribute of interest;
aggregating the identified products into a sub-catalog whereby the sub-
catalog is comprises [sic] of data representative of the identified products;
formatting the sub-catalog, comprised of data representative of the
aggregated, identified products, to create a single machine readable electronic file
version of the sub-catalog having a customer-specified electronic file format; and
downloading, via a network connection, the single electronic file version
of the sub-catalog to a customer computer whereby the data representative of the
aggregated, identified products within the sub-catalog is accessible to the
customer without requiring further access to the electronic catalog.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
King, Jr. 5,319,542 Jun. 7, 1994
Pachauri 6,005,571 Dec. 21, 1999
Waldin, Jr. et al. 6,052,531 Apr. 18, 2000
Jebens et al. 6,332,146 Dec. 18, 2001
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