Patent ID: 7305349

Claim:
A method of providing a purchaser of a product with a replica portraying the product including the steps of: receiving product information relating to a visible feature of the product; offering to the purchaser of the product an opportunity to purchase a replica of the product, the offering step being performed by a merchant of the product, wherein the merchant of the product receives the product information; causing the replica including the visible feature to be transferred to the purchaser; providing a registrar for receiving the product information from the merchant, the registrar using the product information and information relating to an owner of the product to associate the product and the replica with the owner; and transferring a replica order from the registrar to a replica manufacturer; and providing a registrar computing device and a replica manufacturer computing device connected to the registrar computing device by a network, the replica order being transferred from the registrar computing device, over the network to the replica manufacturer computing device.