公开(公告)号：US5727164A

公开(公告)日：1998-03-10

申请号：US806637

申请日：1991-12-13

申请人： Eugene G. Kaye ,  Steve Song ,  Joe Cabana

发明人： Eugene G. Kaye ,  Steve Song ,  Joe Cabana

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06Q10/087 ,  G06F17/30575 ,  G06Q10/0875 ,  Y10S707/99945 ,  Y10S707/99948

摘要： Apparatus and method for managing the availability of items using a computer system. The system permits various computers to access databases located at offsite computers to retrieve/transmit preselected information pertaining to the availability of items from/to each accessed database. Categories of items are selected by a user prior to communicating with offsite computers so that only the categories of interest are selected and only data pertaining to those categories is downloaded to the requesting computer or uploaded from a called computer. Once data has been retrieved by the requesting computer, the user can use various parameters to select and display the received information in the selected categories. In addition, the requesting computer can automatically retrieve information from offsite computers at a predetermined time each day of the week.

摘要翻译： 用于使用计算机系统管理物品的可用性的装置和方法。 该系统允许各种计算机访问位于非现场计算机上的数据库，以从每个被访问的数据库中检索/发送与可用性有关的预选信息。 项目类别在与非现场计算机通信之前由用户选择，使得仅选择感兴趣的类别，并且仅将与这些类别相关的数据下载到请求计算机或从被叫计算机上传。 一旦请求计算机检索到数据，用户可以使用各种参数来选择和显示所选择的类别中的所接收的信息。 此外，请求计算机可以在一周中的每一天的预定时间自动从异地计算机检索信息。