Patent ID: 8296187

Claim:
A system for purchasing an item over a computer network, comprising: a data subject computer, coupled to the network; a data recipient computer, coupled to the network; and a server, including a processor, said server coupled to the network and independent of the data recipient computer, including at least one data controller managing a database and data repository software to: receive, from a data subject, an offer associated with the item and with a data recipient computer, and including a data recipient identifier identifying the data recipient in the database of a controller, and a message including a data subject identifier, the offer originating from the data subject accessing a Web page of the data recipient, and if the data subject computer is registered and the database includes information that indicates that the data recipient identifier and the data recipient computer is authorized: retrieve purchasing information associated with the data subject from the database, said purchasing information having been stored in the database during a previous transaction, send a buy decision to the data subject, the buy decision presenting a choice between purchasing the item, changing the purchasing information, or declining to purchase the item, and in response to the buy decision received from the data subject computer comprising an election to purchase the item, send the purchasing information to the data recipient computer.