Patent ID: 7712035
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for on-line viewing of articles, comprising: providing access to a host-site that is web accessible to an on-line viewer and web-linkable to different article-provider sites, the article provider-sites having images of articles for view via the web; linking the on-line viewer to the host-site and receiving a command from the on-line viewer that selects a structure and at least one type of the articles; using the host-site, in response to the command, to link to the different article-provider sites and to pass and store in a memory respective images of articles of said type from the different article-provider sites for view by the on-line viewer via a web link to the host-site; using the host site, generating a composite image from passed images and the structure, the composite image representing, for viewing as a single object, the structure modified with a first article that corresponds to one of the passed images and at least one other article that corresponds to another one of the passed images from the article-provider sites, wherein the structure is an apparel-wearable model, and the first article is apparel; storing the passed images as a virtual closet that is associated with the on-line viewer; presenting the virtual closet to the on-line viewer; retrieving one of the stored images from the virtual closet in response to a selection by the on-line viewer; and using the host site, generating another composite image from the one retrieved image and the structure, the other composite image representing, for viewing as a single object, the structure modified with a second article that corresponds to the one retrieved image.