Patent ID: 8694428

Claim:
A method comprising: maintaining, on a first computing device, consumer identification and billing information concerning a user, the first computing device distinct from at least one merchant computing device; maintaining, on a second computing device, a directory of ecommerce merchants, each ecommerce merchant corresponding to the at least one merchant computing device, the second computing device being distinct from the at least one merchant computing device; interfacing, via a distributed computing network, the first computing device and the second computing device; generating, on the second computing device, a list of goods/services provided by one or more ecommerce merchants within the directory of ecommerce merchants; enabling the user to select one or more goods/services from the list of goods/services; facilitating an order of the selected goods/services from the one or more ecommerce merchants to the user using the consumer identification and billing information maintained on the first computing device; interfacing, via the distributed computing network, the first computing device, with an information resource located on the second computing device, wherein the information resource maintains information, accessible by the first computing device, that at least partially defines the goods/services offered for sale by the selected ecommerce merchant; generating, on the first computing device, an information screen including the information that at least partially defines the goods/services offered for sale by the selected ecommerce merchant; and generating, on the first computing device, a supplemental information screen that requests information from the user specific to a selected good/service.