Patent ID: 7788135

Claim:
A method for managing an electronic commerce (e-commerce) shopping cart relating to communication between a shopper and a server over a communication network, said method comprising: identifying by the server a secondary item in the shopping cart linked to a primary item in the shopping cart; and removing by the server the secondary item from the shopping cart in response to removal of the primary item from the shopping cart, wherein before said identifying, the method further comprises determining by the server whether a shopping command of the shopper has removed the primary item from the shopping cart, and wherein said identifying is performed after the server has determined that the shopping command has removed the primary item from the shopping cart, wherein after said determining has determined that the shopping command has removed the primary item and before said identifying, the method further comprises: said server ascertaining whether the primary item is a new primary item; and after said ascertaining has ascertained that the primary item is not said new primary item, then performing said identifying.