Patent ID: 6061057
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
A system for executing electronic business transactions including a server system and a buyer system interconnected and communicating through a network, the server system and the buyer system each including a memory for storing data and programs, a processor operating under control of the programs to perform operations on the data and a network interface for communicating through the network, the buyer system including a display for displaying data and operations related to a business transaction and a user input for allowing a user of the buyer system to provide inputs for executing a business transaction, comprising:in the server system, a visual link object memory for storing visual link objects representing business transactions wherein the server system is responsive to access of the server system by the buyer system for transmitting the visual link objects to the buyer system, andin the buyer system, a visual link object memory for storing the visual link objects representing business transactions received from the server system wherein the buyer system is responsive to receiving the visual link objects received from the server system for displaying the visual link objects to a user, whereineach visual link object is a single self-contained entity and includes, as integral parts of the visual link object,a displayable image residing at the start of the visual link object and representing a business transaction,an appendix residing in the visual link object following the display image and containing information relating to the business transaction, anda postscript residing near the end of the visual link object and containing information relating to the visual link object.