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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1999
Anders R. Wallgren, San Jose, CA (US);
Pravin S. Kothari, San Jose, CA (US);
Elizabeth A. Cleary, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip C. Nelson, San Jose, CA (US);
Brett E. Battles, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Anders R. Wallgren, San Jose, CA (US);
Pravin S. Kothari, San Jose, CA (US);
Elizabeth A. Cleary, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip C. Nelson, San Jose, CA (US);
Brett E. Battles, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A series of iterative customer submissions and vendor responses are used to collect sufficient information concerning a custom manufacturing project so as to produce a sufficiently constrained job request as to allow at least one of the vendors to submit a quote for the project. The submissions and responses are preferably made through Web forms and, in one example, the custom manufacturing project is a print job. The collection process is preferably computer assisted so as to incrementally add constraints to an initially under-constrained job request to produce the sufficiently constrained job request.