Patent ID: 8473370

Claim:
A method for ordering items from an electronic catalog, comprising the steps of: displaying a catalog of items for order on a display of a computer device having a processor; running a shopping cart program on the computer device, said shopping cart programming running without requiring an internet browser program and without requiring an active communication channel to a network; displaying on the computer device a plurality of shopping carts by the shopping cart program; receiving on the computer device order information from a first user for an item in the catalog as a first ordered item; storing on the computer device the order information for the first ordered item in a first shopping cart of the plurality of shopping carts; receiving on the computer device order information from a second user for an item in the catalog as a second ordered item; storing on the computer device the order information for the second ordered item in the first shopping cart with the first ordered item; receiving on the computer device order information for an item in the catalog as a third ordered item; storing on the computer device the order information for the third ordered item in a second shopping cart of the plurality of shopping carts; receiving a command to designate at least one of the shopping carts as a permanent shopping cart, the shopping cart designated as a permanent shopping cart remains on the display after items assigned to the permanent shopping cart are submitted for order; receiving a command to designate at least one of the shopping carts as a temporary shopping cart, the shopping cart designated as a temporary shopping cart being removed from the display after items assigned to the temporary shopping cart are submitted for order; and submitting by the computer device the order information of ordered items in at least one of the shopping carts to an order entity as a submitted order.