Patent ID: 6556975
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method for providing an on-line mall to two or more customers, the method comprising the steps of:providing a mall environment on-line, the mall environment including a data storage device; providing two or more stores within the mall environment, where each store is associated with one of two or more communities; providing customer access to the two or more stores; providing a discussion forum for the customers; providing a plurality of gift registries, where each gift registry is associated with at least one of any store of any community within the on-line mall; providing access to each gift registry o one or more registrants, so that the registrant can select one or more gifts for We gift registry; receiving purchase data from the customer for each of the two or more stores based on data received by the customers from the discussion forum and the gift registry; and processing the purchase data through a single system.