Patent ID: 6882981

Claim:
A method for effecting transactions across a plurality of vendors in an internet environment, wherein a user purchases a plurality of items the user finds independent of the vendors, comprising: displaying the plurality of items for purchase, the plurality of items drawn from the plurality of vendors; receiving from the user a selection of items to purchase from the plurality of items, the selection of items comprising items from at least two vendors from the plurality of vendors; mapping the selection of items to purchase to a selected set of vendors from the plurality of vendors; determining a plurality of forms corresponding to the set of vendors for the selection of items, each form the plurality of forms comprising at least one attribute; extracting attributes from the forms to construct a transaction wrapper for each of the forms, wherein the attributes are associated with fields in the forms that are filled to consummate the purchase; filling in the plurality of forms with user related information stored in a database using the transaction wrapper; and submitting the plurality of forms to the set of vendors using the transaction wrapper.