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Graphical e-commerce shopping terminal system and method

  • US 20020158916A1
  • Filed: 04/26/2001
  • Published: 10/31/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of presenting information regarding products, suppliers and offerors to users in a virtual shopping mall on a communications terminal, said communications terminal having a user graphical display, a user input, and a memory, said method comprising:

  • storing in said memory a set of mall data objects, said mall data objects comprising a graphical map of a virtual shopping mall, said map having a coordinate system associated with positions within the shopping mall, and a plurality of multimedia data objects indexed to said coordinate system;

    assigning a customer an initial position having a set of coordinates within the shopping mall;

    presenting at least one multimedia data object to a user indexed to said initial position;

    updating said initial position to a subsequent position responsive to a position change command from a user via said user input; and

    presenting at least one multimedia object to a user indexed to said subsequent position.

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