National Systems Corporation

David Bennett Brown

Marc Asher

A method is disclosed by which a customer places an order for the provision of a service with one of one or more vendors that utilize electronic ordering terminals to process service orders, by transmitting information between the customer's computer and a server. The disclosed method comprising the steps of associating with each vendor a plurality of coordinate points defining the vertices of a polygonal geographic region within which region the vendor provides service, receiving information from a customer indicating the location to which service is to be provided; converting the received information into a coordinate point indicating the point to which service is to be provided; selecting each of the defined polygonal geographic regions that encompass the customer coordinate point; identifying the vendors associated with the selected polygonal geographic regions; choosing the vendor with which the order is to be placed, and placing an order with the chosen vendor.

System for placing product delivery orders through the internet

The present disclosure discloses a method for creating and using a dynamic universal resource locator to link an internet end user to a host selected from two or more hosts on the internet. The method comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining information related to either or both of the end user and/or the two or more hosts; (b) selecting, based upon the obtained information, one of the two or more hosts; and (c) generating a link to the selected host. Also disclosed is a method for connecting a user to a dial-up host having an internet domain name and a temporary internet address. This method comprises the steps of: (a) registering the temporary internet address of the dial-up host with the dynamic domain name server; (b) intercepting a locator request for the domain name of the dial-up host by returning the internet address of the company server; (c) processing requests from the user on the company server; and (d) providing the user with the temporary internet address of the dial-up host upon reaching a predetermined point in the programming of the company server.

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Orange, TX, United States of America

David Bennett Brown