Patent ID: 7240023
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: G06Q,G07F,G07G

Abstract:
1. A processing system comprising: a first computer, the processing system being for a second system including second computer; a plurality of portable cards transported by consumers, each card containing an electronic memory; a plurality of homes; a store; and a routing system for receiving a signal and generating network addresses in response to an inter-network address in the received signal, the routing system including a plurality of wide area communication links, wherein the first computer includes circuitry for sending first signals to the routing system, each first signal including a signal corresponding to a product, and an inter-network address corresponding to the second computer, to cause the routing system to generate a plurality of network addresses, each of the plurality of network addresses corresponding to a respective computer in a respective computer network, and wherein the second computer includes circuitry for receiving first signals, and wherein the second system further includes: a plurality of first processors, each located in one of the plurality of homes, responsive to a signal corresponding to a product received by the second computer, for sending a memory signal to a portable card in the plurality of cards, the memory signal corresponding to the product; and a second processor, in the store, for receiving the memory signal from a portable card in the plurality of cards, to send a telecommunications signal out of the store via a telecommunications signal path.