Patent ID: 6625581
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
A method of purchasing a consumer product over the Internet comprising the steps of:(a) storing on a first Internet-based information server connected to an information network, a Consumer Product Information Request (CPIR) enabling Servlet encoded with a Universal Product Number (UPN) of identifying a particular consumer product; (b) embedding a CPIR-enabling Servlet tag associated with said CPIR-enabling Servlet within the HTML code of a Web page served from a second Internet-based information server; (c) displaying said Web page with said CPIR-enabling Servlet tag embedded therein, on a Web-browser enabled graphical user interface (GUI) nmining on a client computer operably connected to said information network and accessible by a consumer; (d) said consumer clicking on said CPIR-enabling Servlet tag embedded within said Web page, so as to automatically initiate said CPITR-enabling Serviet associated with said CPTR-enabling Serviet tag to execute on said information network, and a request for information on the consumer product identified by said UPN to be carried out against an Internet-enabled database server; and (e) in response to said request, automatically displaying on said Web-browser enabled GUI, information retrieved from said Internet-enabled database server for access and use by said consumer; wherein said displayed information comprises one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) pointing to one or more EC-enabled stores or on-line catalogs on the WWW at which the consumer product identified by said encoded UPN can be purchased and delivered to a particular address in physical space.