System operative over the world wide web for offering, to potential purchasers at web receiving stations, computer systems optimized to the purchaser's needs based upon prompted purchaser entries defining sets of attribute values at component and overall system levels

摘要

Accessing the individual components of a planned product via Web searching that provides a product optimized to the purchaser's, i.e. the developer or builder's needs. Prompting a purchaser, e.g. a developer of a computer system, to make a sequence of a plurality of interactive data entries at a Web display station defining the values of a respective set of attributes selected by the purchaser for each of the components in the planned system, together with searching on the Web for sources of components having attributes satisfying purchaser defined values. Then prompting the purchaser to make a sequence of interactive data entries defining the values of a set of attributes selected by said purchaser that would be applicable for the overall computer system in combination with means for determining a computer system optimized to purchaser selected values of the attributes of each of said components from said Web sources, but reconciled with the attribute values selected by the purchaser for the overall computer system. Thus, the search for the optimum individual components must continuously be reconciled to determine whether such components come within the overall computer system umbrella defined by user or purchaser input.