Patent ID: 8630930

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for use by a computer system that implements an item-list-storing website at which products are offered for purchase, the computer system being configured to electronically store, for a consumer, at least one item list at the item-list-storing website and the computer system being further configured to add, to the item list, a selected one or more of the products offered for purchase at the item-list-storing website in response to an indication from the consumer that the consumer wishes to add to the item list the selected one or more of the products offered for purchase at the item-list-storing website, the method comprising a) receiving, by the computer system, a first indication that the consumer wishes to add, to the item list stored at the item-list-storing website, a first product displayed at a first product-displaying website that is different from the item-list-storing website, wherein the received first indication was automatically transmitted to the computer system in response to a selection by the consumer of an icon displayed on a display screen at a time when the first product-displaying website was being displayed on the display screen, and wherein the received first indication was automatically transmitted to the computer system without the consumer interacting with the item-list-storing website implemented by the computer system at the time that the consumer selected the icon in accordance with this step a), b) responsive to the received first indication, adding, by the computer system, to the item list stored at the item-list-storing website, the first product displayed at the first product-displaying website, c) receiving, by the computer system, a second indication that the consumer wishes to add, to the item list electronically stored at the item-list-storing website, a second product displayed at a second product-displaying website that is different from the item-list-storing website and from the first product-displaying website, the second product being different from the first product, wherein the received second indication was automatically transmitted to the computer system in response to a selection by the consumer of the identical icon that was selected in accordance with step a), said selection in accordance with this step c) being at a time when the second product-displaying website was being displayed on the display screen, and wherein the received second indication was automatically transmitted to the computer system without the consumer interacting with the item-list-storing website implemented by the computer system at the time that the consumer selected the icon in accordance with this step c), and d) responsive to the received second indication, adding, by the computer system, to the item list electronically stored at the item-list-storing website, the second product displayed at the second product-displaying website.