Patent ID: 8306876

Claim:
A method of selling a product over a network data communication system using color matching, comprising: providing a hard copy of a product catalog including a first reference color image; publishing an electronic copy of a product catalog having a color image of a product and a second reference color image to the network, wherein the second reference color image is an electronic copy of the first reference color image; providing access to the electronic copy of the product catalog including the second reference color image to a user; displaying the second reference color image with a color image of the product on a display device; correcting the color of the displayed second reference color image based on a comparison of the first reference color image to the second reference color image so that it matches the color of the first reference color image in response to an input, by the user, wherein the color of all the products displayed on the display device from the product catalog are simultaneously corrected with the color of the displayed second reference color image; and displaying the corrected color image of the products on the display device.