Patent ID: 7305355

Claim:
A method of processing product orders, via a network, to allow consumers to order products from a plurality of merchants from a web page comprising a consistent user interface, comprising the steps of: retrieving a universal shopping cart; searching a local database for information relating to a product prior to searching a plurality of at least one of: affiliated and unaffiliated websites for said information; displaying said information from said plurality of at least one of: affiliated and unaffiliated websites within said web page comprising a consistent user interface; receiving a product selection command from a consumer indicative of selecting a product; adding said selected product to said universal shopping cart; determining whether said selected product is from an affiliated or an unaffiliated web site; transmitting an order for said selected product directly to an owner of said affiliated web site when said selected product is from said affiliated web site; injecting a product order at an unaffiliated website, when said selected product is from said unaffiliated web site, wherein said product order is injected to an unaffiliated website according to pattern matching; and, identifying a common accepted payment method from said plurality of merchants, wherein said common accepted payment method is displayed within said webpage.