US 8,069,091 B1
Apparatus, system and method for embroidery design
Andrew B. Callen, Jr., Acton, Mass. (US); and Christian Haynes, Ashby, Mass. (US)
Assigned to Corporate Casuals, LLC., Concord, Mass. (US)
Filed on May 14, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/748,238.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/833883, filed on Jul. 27, 2006.
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 705—26.5 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system configured to generate a stitch file for an embroidery design selected by a user, the system comprising:
a host system, including:
an image cache module configured to store a plurality of graphics files generated from pre-digitized stitch files of a plurality of text elements, for transmission over a network; and
an order server configured to receive an order selected by the user and transmitted over the network; and
a user device configured to receive the plurality of graphics files via the network in advance of the user selecting any embroidered text element included in the embroidery design,
wherein the user device is configured to allow a selection of an embroidery design based on an image of the stitched embroidery design provided to the user in advance of the user device transmitting the order selected by the user to the host system, the embroidery design including at least one embroidered text element.