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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:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2006
Applicants:
Pravin Kumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sanjay Swamy, Bangalore, IN;
Inventors:
Pravin Kumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sanjay Swamy, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Ketera Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A procurement system permits routine purchases through approved vendors in a catalog as well as off-catalog purchases via the web, the latter using a web access program that captures product information from the web to invoke the approval process normally used for catalog purchases.