Patent ID: 7346560
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented system for protecting from unauthorized reproduction data associated with one or more products that is communicated over a communications network, the system comprising one or more servers collectively operable to: receive from a buyer computer a search query for data associated with one or more products, the search query specifying one or more search criteria; communicate, in response to receiving the search query from the buyer computer, the search query to one or more databases in which data associated with one or more products is stored; receive data associated with one or more products matching the search criteria specified in the search query received from the buyer computer, the data having been collected in response to communicating the search query to the one or more databases in which data associated with one or more products is stored; communicate, in response to receiving the data associated with the one or more products matching the search criteria specified in the search query received from the buyer computer, to the buyer computer the data for the matching products; and communicate, along with the data for the matching products, a software component to the buyer computer, the software component operable to: