Patent ID: 7421428

Claim:
A process executing on a hardware device comprising a metasearch engine for metasearching on a distributed network activated by a request executed on a client device to request the metasearch engine to send at least one search query to a plurality of server devices, the at least one search query comprising at least one keyword phrase, the at least one keyword phrase comprising at least one keyword, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, at the metasearch engine, the request from the client device for the metasearch engine to send the at least one search query comprising the at least one keyword phrase to the plurality of server devices; (b) sending, by the metasearch engine, the at least one search query comprising the at least one keyword phrase to the plurality of server devices; (c) receiving, at the metasearch engine, search results from the plurality of server devices in response to the at least one search query comprising the at least one keyword phrase sent to the plurality of server devices, wherein: at least one of the received search results comprises information about at least one item that may be ordered; (d) incorporating, by the metasearch engine, the received search results into at least one display list corresponding to the at least one keyword phrase and incorporating, by the metasearch engine, means for inputting at least one quantity of the at least one item that may be ordered into the at least one display list that comprises the at least one of the received search results comprising the information about the at least one item that may be ordered; (e) incorporating, by the metasearch engine, the at least one display list of received search results comprising the means for inputting the at least one quantity of the at least one item that may be ordered into a response for communicating to the client device and incorporating, by the metasearch engine, into the response for communicating to the client device means for placing, by the metasearch engine, at least one order for the at least one quantity of the at least one item that may be ordered; (f) communicating, by the metasearch engine, the response from the metasearch engine to the client device.