Patent ID: 7426495

Claim:
A method for performing a commercial transaction over the Internet, comprising: receiving a consumer selected electronic acceptance of terms included in a digital license agreement that defines intellectual property rights for digital content; approving the digital license agreement including the electronic acceptance of terms; accepting an order for the digital content from a consumer, where the order is made electronically over the Internet; generating a virtual packing list which describes the digital content which was ordered over the Internet; transmitting the digital content over the Internet to the consumer; transmitting the virtual packing list to the consumer over the Internet, using the virtual packing list transmitted to the customer as a customer return receipt where the virtual packing list transmitted to the customer is matched at a consumer location with the digital content transmitted to the customer; receiving a return receipt message back from the customer that certifies that the digital content listed in the virtual packing list was successfully transmitted to the customer and matches the digital content transmitted to the customer; and providing a list of file sizes in the virtual packing list transmitted to the customer that identify sizes of the digital content transmitted to the customer; and receiving the return receipt back from the customer proving that the commercial transaction has been successfully transacted when the file sizes identified in the virtual packing list match the sizes of the digital content received by the customer.