Abstract: A system and method for providing multi-locale and multi-currency applications that may be used by multiple users, each of which submits requests and expects replies in a different language or currency. In one embodiment, a user at a client computer submits a request for information to a server. The server identifies a locale (including attributes such as language) and/or currency (including appropriate format of presentation) to associate with the user, and then constructs a dynamic Web page that contains text in at least one of a plurality of languages and/or currency and other symbols in any one of a plurality of language formats. If the user requests a locale, language or currency format that is not supported, the present system and method will determine a default or alternate response that will closely satisfy the user's request.

Abstract: A system and method that provides real-time product and services information to sales personnel so that they may provide accurate and timely information to consumers and to the consumers directly so that they may service themselves. In one embodiment, the present system includes at least one device interfacing with a plurality of consumer and product databases. When a sales associate receives a request for product information from a consumer, the associate inputs the product information into at least one device. The device communicates with a vendor computer over a wireless interface to search at least one database associated with a merchant to identify information about products and services that satisfies the request and/or identifies up-sell and cross-sell products and services. The vendor computer transmits retrieved information to the device, and sales associate communicates timely and accurate product information to the consumer.

Abstract: Name Type Value Storage (“NTV”) provides a very flexible technique for storing data for use in the Internet and in World Wide Web based applications. NTV provides a list of values or names, referred to as triplets, that is used to identify a correspondence. In the triplet, NTV provides both an identifier and a name of a type, where a type can be one of several things, e.g. a type can be an integer, a floating point number, a string, an array of any of those values, or an another NTV object. A third part of the triplet is the actual value itself, which is stored in its native type.