Patent ID: 6414693
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A system for enabling customization to viewed articles available from a supplier on a client display screen located remote from the supplier at a client, comprising:a storage medium at the supplier having a database including at least one profile of the client, the profile including a plurality of graphic images having different characteristics associated with the client; a plurality of images, stored by the supplier, representative of articles associated with the supplier; means for displaying, at the client, an article image from one of the plurality of images representative of articles and a menu that includes the plurality of graphic images associated with the client; and means for enabling the client to manipulate a selected graphic image of the plurality of graphic images to a predetermined location that is overlaid on the article image and for fixing the selected graphic image associated with the client at a predetermined location on the article image, wherein the selected graphic image overlaid over the article image is substantially free of boundaries so that areas not defined by the selected graphic image appear as a portion of the article image lying thereunder.