Patents by Inventor Alan Rudnick

Alan Rudnick has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for providing direct and indirect sales channels for goods or services from a single point of purchase
    Patent number: 7295989
    Abstract: A method and system for buyers and sellers of goods/services to engage in commerce, providing to a searchable seller goods/services information database to search for desired items and allowing buyers of goods/services to select between at least one direct sales channel and at least one indirect sales channel for submitting a request for quotation and/or completing a transaction, to transmit requests for quotation to selected sellers, and for sellers to transmit quotations to buyers in response to requests for same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Inventor: Alan Rudnick
  • Method and system for providing direct and indirect sales channels for goods or services from a single point of purchase
    Publication number: 20010032113
    Abstract: A system for buyers and sellers of goods/services to engage in commerce, comprising one or more central processing units, system software for controlling said one or more central processing units, storage means containing one or more databases with information regarding buyers and sellers and the goods/services available, one or more servers providing for Internet-based access and use of said system, means for buyers of goods/services to select between at least one direct sales channel and at least one indirect sales channel for submitting a request for quotation and/or completing a transaction, means for buyers to transmit requests for quotation to said system, means for said system to transmit requests for quotation to selected sellers, means for sellers to transmit quotations to buyers in response to requests for same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2000
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventor: Alan Rudnick