Method of tracing a shopping path of a consumer

• US 20020007319A1
• Filed: 12/15/2000
• Published: 01/17/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zygma Communications Corp.
• Original Assignee: Zygma Communications Corp.
• Inventors: Yu, Tzu-Yun
• Application Number:
  US09/736,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20020007319A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of tracing a shopping path of a consumer. The method enables the consumer to directly return back to any transaction-occurred shopping web page. The method involves: establishing a shopping path record to record all of the uniform resource locators (URLs) of transaction-occurred shopping web pages of the consumer; providing a database for storing the shopping path record of the consumer; displaying a shopping path record list to enable the consumer to choose a recorded item in the shopping web page; receiving a request from the consumer for returning back to one transaction-occurred recorded shopping web page; and linking to the chosen recorded shopping web page.

Claims

1. A method of tracing a shopping path of a consumer, the method enabling the consumer to directly return back to any transaction-occurred shopping web page, the method comprising:

establishing a shopping path record to record all of the uniform resource locators (URLs) of transaction-occurred shopping web pages of the consumer;

providing a database for storing the shopping path record of the consumer;

displaying a shopping path record list to enable the consumer to choose a recorded item in the shopping web page;

receiving a request from the consumer for returning back to one transaction-occurred recorded shopping web page; and

linking to the chosen recorded shopping web page;

wherein the consumer can return to any one of the ordered items in the recorded shopping web pages by selecting the shopping path record list to modify a transaction.

2. The method of tracing a shopping path of claim 1, wherein the URLs recorded in the shopping path record includes the URL of an ordered shopping web page and or URL of an order-cancelled shopping web page.

3. The method of tracing a shopping path of claim 1, wherein the shopping path record list further includes related item information.

4. The method of tracing a shopping path of claim 3, wherein the related item information includes:

a title of an item, a description of the item, a purchase price of the item or an order status.

5. The method of tracing a shopping path of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises automatically updating the shopping path record until the consumer finishes shopping.

6. A computer program product for tracing a shopping path of a consumer, the computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied in the medium for enabling the consumer to directly return back to any transaction-occurred shopping web page, the computer program product having;

a first program code for causing the computer to establish a shopping path record to record all of the uniform resource locators (URLs) of transaction-occurred shopping web pages of the consumer;

a second program code for causing the computer to provide a database for storing the shopping path record of the consumer;

a third program code for causing the computer to display a shopping path record list to enable the consumer to choose an ordered item in the recorded shopping web page;

a fourth program code for causing the computer to receive a request from the consumer for returning back to a transaction-occurred recorded shopping web page; and

a fifth program code for causing the computer to link to the recorded shopping web page;

wherein the consumer can return to any one of the ordered shopping web pages by selecting the shopping path record list to modify a transaction.

7. The computer program product of tracing a shopping path of claim 6, wherein the shopping path record of the first program code includes the URL of the ordered shopping web page or the URL of a ordered-cancelled shopping web page.

8. The computer program product of tracing a shopping path of claim 6, wherein the shopping path record of the third program code further includes related item information.

9. The computer program product of tracing a shopping path of claim 8, wherein the related item information includes:

a title of an item, a description of the item, a purchase price of the item or order status.

10. The computer program product of a tracing a shopping path of claim 6, wherein the computer program product further comprises a sixth program code for causing the computer to automatically update the shopping path record until the consumer finishes shopping.

11. The computer program product of tracing a shopping path of claim 6, wherein the third program code contains a pop-up window function program.