Patent EP0265232A2 successfully refreshed from Google Patents.
EP0265232A2
Expired / Lapsed
EP
⏱️ 0.0 years remaining
Furnishing the identification of customers
Assignee: Book Data Ltd
•
Filing: 1987-10-20
•
Granted: —
•
Expires: 2007-10-20
Abstract
Abstract In order to furnish the identification of potential customers, a first database 3 is built up for books and serials in print, classifying each individual book or serial. On customers requesting information regarding individual books or serials, they are required to identify themselves and also their product interests; a second database 4 is built up on the first enquirers, including their identification and product interest; the second database enables book publishers to be provided with the identification of potential customers and of their specific product interests.
Inventors
- 👤 Ralph Francis Meyler Bennett
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
—
Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-25 12:15
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06Q; G06Q30/00; G06Q30/02; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S707/00; Y10S707/99931; Y10S707/99933
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
93 words
Apparatus for furnishing data, comprising an assembly of bibliographic information concerning publications in print, the information including a subject classification for each individual publication, and means for deriving from the assembly information regarding individual publications, whereby such information can be provided on request to first enquirers, characterised in that the apparatus also includes an assembly of data on the first enquirers, including their identification and their subject interest, and means for providing from said data data identifying first enquirers having specific subject interests, whereby second enquirers can be provided with the latter data.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
93 words
Apparatus for furnishing data, comprising an assembly of bibliographic information concerning publications in print, the information including a subject classification for each individual publication, and means for deriving from the assembly information regarding individual publications, whereby such information can be provided on request to first enquirers, characterised in that the apparatus also includes an assembly of data on the first enquirers, including their identification and their subject interest, and means for providing from said data data identifying first enquirers having specific subject interests, whereby second enquirers can be provided with the latter data.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
122 words
A method of using the apparatus of Claim 1 to furnish data, comprising the steps of examining information relating to publications in print, providing a subject classification for each individual publication, assembling bibliographic information in concrete form, including said subject classifications, for each individual publication, and, on first enquirers requesting information regarding individual publications, consulting the assembly of bibliographic information and providing the first enquirers with information regarding the individual publications, characterised in that on the first enquirers requesting the information, from each first enquirer is obtained details which identity the first enquirer, data in concrete form is assembled on the first enquirers, including identification and subject interest, and second enquirers are provided with data identifying first enquirers having specific subject interests.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
25 words
The method of Claim 2, wherein there is also separately obtained from each first enquirer details which identify the subject interest of the first enquirer.
References Cited (Backward Citations)
No citation records indexed.
USPTO Annuity & Maintenance Windows
Maintenance schedule is calculated for granted US utility patents.