Patents by Inventor Karl F. Almstead

Karl F. Almstead 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).

  • Publication number: 20040210490
    Abstract: A method, computer program product and system for managing bids. A bid request may be transmitted to a recipient that may itself become a bid requester thereby being able to submit one or more bid requests to other entities. A bid request may generically refer to a request to bid on line item(s). A recipient of one or more bid requests may further be allowed to aggregate one or more line items and the accompanying documentation, e.g., agreements, drawings, if any, in the one or more received request, into one or more new requests to be submitted to other entities. Furthermore, a recipient of one or more responses to one or more bid requests may import data related to one or more line items in one or more received responses into one or more new responses to be submitted to other entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Karl F. Almstead, Lars Lindberg, Lars Ersmarker