The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2011
Nathan E. Wykes, Broomfield, CO (US);
Kevin M. Brackney, Westminster, CO (US);
John E. Mcginn, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Brian P. Doyle, Denver, CO (US);
Jeff Wang, Longmont, CO (US);
James D. Brown, Pine, CO (US);
James D. Harman, Arvada, CO (US);
Nathan E. Wykes, Broomfield, CO (US);
Kevin M. Brackney, Westminster, CO (US);
John E. McGinn, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Brian P. Doyle, Denver, CO (US);
Jeff Wang, Longmont, CO (US);
James D. Brown, Pine, CO (US);
James D. Harman, Arvada, CO (US);
Requisite Software, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An electronic catalog is provided that stores items and attributes associated with the items. One or more of the attributes may have more than one value. Items are stored in an item table with different attributes for items stored in different rows in an attribute table. Additional items may be added to a catalog by adding additional rows to the item table, with attributes related to the additional items added as rows into the attribute table. Particular attributes may have multiple values, and attributes with multiple values are associated with sub-items that correspond to different attribute trees or attribute sets associated with the item. Searching can be performed for attribute values and search results returned indicating all items and sub-items that satisfy the search criteria.