Patent ID: 7617125

Claim:
A method for allowing a data subject to purchase an item from a data recipient over a computer network, comprising: receiving, from a data subject network communication device, an offer associated with the item and with the data recipient and a message including a network communication device software identifier, the offer and the message being received at a data repository computer independent of the data recipient, the offer originating from the data subject accessing a Web page of the data recipient; determining whether the data subject is registered; determining whether the data recipient is authorized; and if the data subject is registered and the data recipient is authorized: retrieving purchasing information associated with the data subject from a database in the data repository computer; sending a buy decision from the data repository computer to the data subject network communication device, the buy decision presenting a choice between purchasing the item, changing the purchasing information, or declining to purchase the item; and in response to the buy decision received from the data subject network communication device comprising an election to purchase the item, sending the purchasing information to the data recipient.