Patent ID: 8560401

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of managing an electronic gift registry, the method comprising: establishing, by one or more configured server computers, an electronic gift registry for a registrant; accessing, by the one or more configured server computers from a computer memory storage system, information about multiple different products that are available to be added to the registrant's gift registry; initiating, by the one or more configured server computers, display of a graphical user interface to the registrant at a client computing system, the graphical user interface presenting indications of at least some of the different products that are available to be added to the registrant's gift registry; updating, by the one or more configured server computers, the registrant's electronic gift registry to include one or more products that are added by the registrant via interactions with the graphical user interface; and receiving, by the one or more configured server computers, information from interactions of the registrant with the graphical user interface to designate, for each of the one or more products, whether the product, once purchased by a gift giver, is shippable at any time or is not to be shipped until after receiving a future authorization from the registrant to ship the product.