Patent ID: 6125352
Filing Date: 2000-09-26
Classification: G06Q,G07F,H04L

Abstract:
A client architecture for conducting electronic commerce over the Internet, comprising, on a computer-readable medium:a Web browser configured to run on a computer;a commerce client application configured to run on the computer in conjunction with the Web browser application to provide a user interface, the commerce client application including a callable function, said callable function comprising executable computer instructions stored on a computer storage medium accessible by the computer;an electronic shopping basket object configured to access and manipulate product information and merchant information stored on the computer storage medium, the access and manipulation initiated by executing the callable function of the commerce client application;at least two Web documents, each of which includes embedded function-calling information that corresponds to the callable function of the commerce client application, the function-calling information embedded within the Web document such that a user can selectively initiate the execution of the callable function via the user interface while viewing one of the Web documents with the Web browser; andwherein the user interface is displayed for each of the Web documents and functions independently of the Web documents.