Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Electronic shopping
Patent
1997-11-24
1999-11-23
Teska, Kevin J.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Electronic shopping
705 26, 705 37, 705 27, G06F 1760
Patent
active
059917393
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for providing an online ordering machine that manages the distribution of home delivered products over a distributed computer system is herein disclosed. The distributed computer system includes a group of customers connected to client computers and at least one server computer system that executes the online ordering machine. The online ordering machine provides the customers with product information from various vendors whose delivery range is within the customer's location or with product information from vendors having take out service within a specified range from the customer's location. The vendor's and customer's location is associated with a geocode representing the latitude and longitude coordinates of the location. The search for the vendors servicing the customer's location is done using the geocodes. The online ordering machine accepts orders from the customer for a particular product from a selected vendor. The order is converted into voice instructions which are transmitted to the vendor through a telephone call. The vendor receives the telephonic order and responds to voice-prompted instructions used to confirm the order.
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Cupps Bryan
Glass Tim
Caserza Steven F.
Fink Mark J.
FOOD.COM
Teska Kevin J.
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