| US 7,333,975 B2 | ||
| Information system and method for disseminating technology information | ||
| John Robert Cain, 22006 York Mills Cir., Novi, Mich. 48374 (US) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 24, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/373,218. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/359344, filed on Feb. 25, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0163463 A1, Aug. 28, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 17/30 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 707—3 [707/6; 709/217] | 7 Claims |
| 1. A method of disseminating technology information between requestor servers and purveyor servers using a host computer system
having a data structure, a search engine communicating with the data structure, and an application server communicating with
the data structure and search engine, the data structure including one or more of a first data array, a second data array,
and a third data array, the first data array containing a plurality of data entries each with technology and purveyor data,
the second data array containing links to a plurality of available external informational sources, and the third data array
containing requestor data including requestor registered external informational sources, said requestor registered external
informational sources being a subset of the available external informational sources, said method comprising the steps of:
providing the requestor with the option of conducting an available technology search to identify closely matching data entries
in the data structure or an external informational search including one or more of a requested technology search, published
media search, and a production data search, wherein the published media search report includes a copy of each of the identified
published media documents from the requestor registered external informational sources;
receiving a search request from the requestor server, the search request including a technology parametric;
identifying data entries having technology data closely matching the technology parametric;
accessing purveyor data associated with one or more of the identified data entries; and
sending a search request notice to one or more of the identified purveyors using the purveyor data;
providing the requestor with information on the available external informational sources containing an identified published
media document that are not included in the requestor registered external informational sources; and
permitting the requestor to add available external informational sources to the requestor registered external informational
sources, wherein upon requestor selection of a published media search, the method further includes the steps of:
receiving a search request from the requestor server, the search request including a technology parametric;
conducting a parametric search in each of the available external informational sources to identify published media documents
having information pertaining to the technology parametric; and
communicating a published media search report to the requestor.
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