electric crayons created individual web-based storefronts for EFIs' OEMs. This method allowed individual dealers from each EFI OEM to obtain software update patches online, and billing to occur on a monhtly basis-monitored by a 3rd party system. Dealers would input software codes and hardware configurations and receive their upgrade patches. (Due to the competiveness of this industry, unable to link to the storefronts). September 98.