Patent ID: 7028003

Claim:
A computerized method for rental of furniture and housewares, comprising the steps of: publishing a web site on the Internet having an electronic catalog of furniture suites and housewares collections for rent by a supplier, the catalog having publicly accessible web pages containing only images and text describing the suites and collections, and having restricted access web pages having the same content as the publicly accessible pages and further including price information and an order form accessible through a hypertext link; registering authorized rental agent users by domain name and IP address; receiving a GET request for a catalog web page; screening the GET request by domain name and IP address; automatically displaying the publicly accessible web pages when the GET request originates from a domain name and IP address which has not been registered; automatically displaying the restricted access pages when the GET request originates from one of the authorized users; receiving a completed order form from at least one of the authorized rental agent users; sending an electronic mail message confirming receipt of the completed order form to said at least one of the authorized rental agent users; and sending a copy of the completed order form to the supplier by electronic mail.