Patent ID: 7174307

Claim:
A method for electronically mediating an online gift before a sender places an order for a recipient, the method comprising: providing both gift information on the online gift suitable and not suitable for at least the recipient to the sender prior to receiving order information from the sender, the gift information being served as a criterion for the sender to select the online gift; displaying order information related to the online gift received from the sender to the recipient, the order information being information on the online gift and a delivery of the online gift; changing the order information when the recipient selects to change the order information; displaying the changed order information to the sender; and accumulating the order information and a changed order information, wherein the gift information is generated on the accumulated order information or changed order information and the providing includes deciding whether a portion of the gift information is opened to the sender based on corresponding flag information included in the gift information, the flag information being set by the recipient.