Patent ID: 7328176
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of processing product orders, via a network, to allow consumers to order products from a plurality of merchants from a web page comprising a consistent user interface, comprising the steps of: retrieving a universal shopping cart; searching a local database for information relating to a product; determining whether said information is at least one of: outdated and missing; determining whether said information is from an affiliated merchant or unaffiliated merchant when said information is said at least one of: outdated and missing; receiving additional information from said affiliated merchant when said information is from an affiliated merchant; screen scraping additional information from said unaffiliated merchant when said information is from an unaffiliated merchant; displaying information comprising one or both of said additional information from said affiliated merchant and said additional information from said unaffiliated merchant within said web page comprising a consistent user interface; receiving a product selection command from a consumer indicative of selecting a product; adding said selected product to said universal shopping cart; determining whether said selected product in said universal shopping cart is from an affiliated web site; transmitting raw data in a data file for an order for said selected product in said universal shopping cart directly to a processor associated with said affiliated website when said selected product is from said affiliated web site; and, injecting said order at an unaffiliated website when said unaffiliated website is associated with said selected product in said universal shopping cart, wherein said order is injected to said unaffiliated website according to pattern matching.