International Business Machines Corporation

Danny R Hager

Susan Bumgardner Cirulli

Jason Matthew Blackwell

Claude J Elie

Clare T Kibler

Under the present invention, an approver will log into a purchase application or the like. Upon logging in, the approver will be presented with a view of all item requests for which he/she must make an approval determination. The approver can also be presented with informational messages for the requested items. In any event, the approver can make an approval determination for the item requests and post comments related thereto. Once the approval determination has been made for a particular item request, an approver list and approval status corresponding thereto is updated. It should be understood that as used herein, the term 'item' is intended to refer to goods or services.

Method, system and program product for approving item requests

A system and method of web searching is provided. The method comprises defining one or more user preferred categories and conducting a search within the one or more user preferred categories based upon search criteria by comparing the search criteria to content information within each of the one or more user preferred categories. The method further includes displaying search results associated with each of the preferred categories which have matching criteria based on the conducted search.

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Binghamton, NY, United States of America

Danny R Hager