Patent ID: 7206757

Claim:
A system for purchasing a gift comprising the steps of: creating a plurality of databases, each of which contains a list gift of content elements organized according to a source coordinate and a destination coordinate, wherein the source coordinate is indicative of a location associated with the gift and the destination coordinate is indicative of a shipping locality of a recipient of the gift; and receiving, via an Internet transmission, a request from a user of the system to initiate a shopping session for purchasing the gift including the steps of: determining a coordinate pair consisting of said source coordinate and said destination coordinate in accordance with the request to initiate the shopping session; locating a category of said content elements in one of said databases, using said coordinate pair, in accordance with a category selection request from the user; sending the user a gift list of said content elements located in said category; and receiving a request from the user to purchase said gift represented by one of said content elements in the gift list; and sending a vendor a order for said gift in response to the request from the user to purchase said gift.