Patent ID: 7359869
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for providing secure, indirect electronic commerce transactions between a user and multiple merchants comprising: establishing a secure communication link between at least one client computer system and a vendor computer system; transmitting transaction information to said client computer system from said vendor computer system enabling a user at said client computer system to select for purchase, via said vendor computer system, items listed in a plurality of merchant computer systems without said user having direct access to said merchant computer systems; receiving at said vendor computer system a first request from a client computer system concerning an item listed on a first of said merchant computer systems; modifying at said vendor computer system said first request from said client computer system to said vendor computer system into a modified request from said vendor computer system to said merchant computer system; sending said modified request from said vendor computer system to said merchant computer system; receiving at said vendor computer system from said first merchant computer system a first response to said modified request, said first response comprising a merchant web page comprising one or more hyper-text links to said merchant computer system; modifying said merchant web page at said vendor computer system into a modified web page; wherein said modifying said merchant web page comprises: