We are a 13-year old company that has excelled in custom and private development for all forms of consumer level ecommerce software for the web. In the course of our growth our expertise has perfected itself in project management delivery systems and human resource control, known for our "hands-on" management & implemenation style.

Information Provider Technolgies began its website building software operations in 1995 when its first Suite of programs was selected to become the first commercial (3rd party) software package made available by America Online to all its AOL Marketing Partners. In those days, that part of AOL management which provided websites and webstores were called "information providers." Hence our name was registered such in January 1996.

In the course of the Suite's development, its original author Barry Ira Geller built large merchant commerce sites for two strategic vendors, Health and Vitamin Express, the leading online health outlet of Compuserve and Prodigy, to become AOL's first Vitamin store, and Copeland's Sports SuperStore, a high-end 50-store sports chain in the Western United States, to become AOL's first Sports products Store. To make AOL's Thanksgiving deadline, Geller distributed the Infoprovider Suite to and personally directed nearly 40 national sports company's product database conversions and customer support (including Nike) so that Copeland Sports SuperStore on AOL opened on time.

The Suite was the first software package to completely automate the speedy creation and backend maintenance of several large AOL stores, in the days when AOL was a closed system -- and which helped launch its Internet presence. In 1997, the Company enjoyed being called by AOL Management as an e-commerce consultant to different AOL Merchants, including American Express. In 1998 the first Windows-based version of the Suite was used to convert a 3,000 product AOL store into 25,000 products within 2 days (that's on a slow 486 to you young 'uns <grin>).

Our current experience is determining the goals and strategies of a client company and translating that into an effectively designed e-commerce customer experience, either from modifications as needed to our flagship software or starting from scratch, to maximize Internet sales and profits.

In 1998 the Suite was customized to make a web (Internet) version of a bookstore's complex cataloging system, turning out an easily searchable 100,000 product e-commerce website (www.research-assistance.com)

Using experience gained from custom development completed for two large AOL Merchant vendors and two large Internet stores, the Company's core product incorporated high-end business management features for running large internet stores as part of its standard offering. It gave client companies the means to have multiple sites running in AOL, CompuServe and their own Internet Web site from the same code base.

Considered in 1999 by the Web Architect of Earthlink Networks to be one of the most "merchant customized" commercial e-commerce packages written for the Internet, InfoProvider Suite has always included custom ISP installation as part of its package.

To demonstrate the scalability of IPT core technology in 1999 the Company used the Provider Plus Web database engine and client side software to develop Online dictionaries and glossaries, Multi-user cross merchant online search programs, an Online Mall, and an online community site with a locater service-demographics engine, all versions of Provider Plus Web.

During 2000, E&A, Inc. used the Suite to build a premium educational software site (www.eno.com) and IPT managed and produced the design and programming development of the International Lotto gaming site, www.imustlotto.com -- which grew to be among the top 50 visited sites on the Internet during that year. IPT employed its programming and design executives to manage about 30 company employees in the course of a year's work.

Also in 2000, IPT managed the Oracle database language conversion of www.neopets.com, which afterwards grew from its limited 400,000 members to adequately and successfully handle over 1,000,000 children visitors every day -- to become the second most popular kids' site on the Internet today.

The years 2003-2004 saw two completely designed and built webstores, a boutique occult bookstore and a Sapphire Gems store, each with up to 10,000 products, completely build and generate themselves using Provider Plus Web. Simply Sapphires' version was specially modified to import spreadsheets of thousands of gems from around the world and automatically create shoppable webpages therefrom. Serpents Occult Books rose to become one of the most sought after private bookstores in the world until the Florida floods destroyed its warehouse. Simply Sapphires continues its operations today.

In 2005 we designed a spectacular logo and built an informational membership website for the premier Northern California engineering firm of DST Controls, specifically for their ClearControls Technologies. The site was designed and completed in record time and made available for a pre-scheduled Merchant Show. Henceforth ClearControls was recognized as state-of-the-art software for the Oil and Gas data-acquisition Industry. DST has done extensive hardware construction and software design for the Microsoft and Fuji Companies. A year after our intense website work the Company was sold to an international engineering firm. Regrettably, their new website is quite inferior (in our humble opinion) to what we originally created.

Design work was done in 1999 and new programming was accomplished in 2005 for Executive Software's Diskeeper Corporation, as it later re-consolidated and revised itself under its current new name and website.

The years of 2004-6 has seen the adaptation of the Provider eCommerce engine into the custom PHP/mySQL built Baseline Health Technologies which uses the world-famous nutritional recipes of Jon Barron.The site has since been grossing over 7 figures per year. Its features include a fully client-programmable Self-Creating Website for Specials, which automatically integrate with its backend General Ledger, invoicing, accounting, Product Inventory, and Customer History databases. An international CPA has stated its extensive Financial Reports module alone rivals that of AccPac.

In 2007 Provider Plus Web was re-compiled with the latest version of Visual Foxpro 9, after modifying and converting the program to become a private company's 100,000+ record article database search & reporting application on 100 years of the Music Industry.

Barry Ira Geller is the Founder and President of Information Provider Technologies. He is the creator and developer of the Provider Plus Web suite of e-commerce software and the company's Director of Project Management. Geller has focused on custom software programming for vendors on the Web and those providing services through ISPs (including Prodigy, CompuServe and AOL) since 1995, and he created and wrote the original versions of all IPT product software offerings. His direct programming experience includes creating software for the full range of vendor needs from CGI shopping cart scripting to order fulfillment.

His strong background in database conversion comes from 22 years of custom database development, management and system design for a range of small and large companies, from private foundation resource promotional management software in Singapore (1994) and programming the first group telemarketing software and new customer database conversions systems used by Nextel and ARCO in early 1995.

Geller has an extensive background in DOS programming and DOS-based operating systems, dBase, Clipper 52e, Foxpro 2.6, Visual Foxpro as well as in planning, installing and troubleshooting Novell networks. During 1997 and 2006 Geller planned, custom developed, and supervised several database intensive website projects utilizing mySQL, php, sql7, and oracle 8i, including search engine based membership, online gaming, lotto sites, and the Oracle database conversion of the 2nd largest children's site on the net.

All of IPT's versions of its flagship software product, Provider Plus Web for Windows has either been written by him or co-written under his direction.

Along with project management, Geller has also excelled in the fields of technological development. Between 2000-2003 Geller was the inventor and managing developer of a CD-based thin-client Java eCommerce Virtual Server Operating System Technology, and an Internet Banking Credit Card and Customer Identity Verification System on a chip.

Barry Geller's patent applications for both e-commerce server and banking encryption systems were created in 2000 and sold to Extreming Technologies 2003.
The full patents can be viewed Here and Here.

(1) E-COMMERCE ENABLING VIRTUAL STREAMING MULTIMEDIA SERVER, SYSTEM, METHOD AND ARTICLE
U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/639,364 The present invention relates, systems, methods and articles for Electronic Commerce and Direct Marketing and, in particular embodiments to providing improved E-Commerce and Direct Marketing through the use of a Virtual Streaming Multimedia Server (VSMS). ABSTRACT
Buying items through electronic commerce via the Internet has achieved widespread popularity. Items can typically be purchased over the Internet with, considerably less effort than purchasing them using conventional means. Electronic commerce is far from ideal though in that delays may be encountered in the transferring of data that is necessary to facilitate the electronics buying experience.

(2) VIRTUAL SERVER CONSUMER AUTHORIZATION, VERIFICATION AND CREDIT UPDATE METHOD AND ARTICLE
By Barry Ira Geller U.S. Patent Application # 10/670128
The present invention relates to methods and articles for providing payment for E-commerce transactions, and, in particular embodiments, to methods and articles for providing payment for Ecommerce transactions in a more secure and private manner.
ABSTRACT:
An intelligent financial card system, process and article that allows more secure E-commerce transactions with Internet merchants by avoiding the transfer of financial card information to the merchants, while at the same time advantageously employing portions of infrastructure already used in conventional financial card E-commerce transactions. The intelligent financial card verifies itself and acts as its own transaction authorization agent during an E-commerce transaction.......

Additionally, full patents can be viewed at www.uspto.gov, searching for Patents, PAIR, Public Searches, and using the application numbers above.