Patent ID: 7568200
Filing Date: 2009-07-28
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for permitting a user to access a site on the Internet, the site being accessible to a multiplicity of users for managing inventories of different kinds of things that the users have, the different kinds of things being instances of object classes defined in a computer-implemented database of object classes, and the inventories, of the different kinds of things that the users have, being stored in at least one computer-implemented database of user information, said apparatus comprising: at least one processor programmed for providing access of a user to the user's inventory for inspecting and for adding instances to the user's inventory by displaying to the user a list of object classes from the database of object classes, and next to an identification of each listed object class, displaying a first button for the user to click on to add, to the user's inventory, instances of the listed object class that the user has, and next to the identification of each listed object class, also displaying a second button for the user to click on to identify instances of the listed object class that the user would like to buy, and for labeling the first button with a number indicating how many instances of the listed object class that the user has; wherein said at least one processor is further programmed for responding to the user clicking on the first button by incrementing the number indicating how many instances of the listed object class that the user has, and displaying to the user the incremented number indicting how many instances of the listed object class that the user has by labeling the first button with the incremented number; and wherein said at least one processor is further programmed for displaying a third button for the user to identify instances of the listed object class that the user would like to sell, and for labeling the third button with a number indicating how many instances of the listed object class that the user would like to sell.