Electronic commerce systems and methods providing unified checkout steps
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1. A transaction processor operable to receive product selections from a plurality of vendors and assist a purchase operation utilizing a unified checkout step, comprising:
- facilities for connecting to an electronic communication network;
a transaction interface operable to receive customer product selections over the network from a plurality of vendor commerce systems apart from the transaction processor; and
at least one global shopping basket operable to store received product selections from the plurality of vendor commerce systems, the product selections selected from a customer, the global shopping basket further maintaining a vendor identifer for each stored product selection such that a vendor may be identified for each selection.
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Abstract
Components of E-Commerce systems and methods for providing a unified checkout step for several aggregated vendor commerce systems.
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26 Claims
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1. A transaction processor operable to receive product selections from a plurality of vendors and assist a purchase operation utilizing a unified checkout step, comprising:
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facilities for connecting to an electronic communication network;
a transaction interface operable to receive customer product selections over the network from a plurality of vendor commerce systems apart from the transaction processor; and
at least one global shopping basket operable to store received product selections from the plurality of vendor commerce systems, the product selections selected from a customer, the global shopping basket further maintaining a vendor identifer for each stored product selection such that a vendor may be identified for each selection. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A vendor commerce system for an E-Commerce system operational over a network, the E-Commerce system including a global checkout function, the vendor commerce system comprising:
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electronic facilities for electronic communication over the network;
a vendor-specific catalog of products;
a vendor presentation engine operable to present products from the vendor-specific catalog to customers and to and to receive customer product selections, both through the electronic facilities for electronic communication over the network;
a local shopping basket for storing the customer product selections; and
a transaction interface operable to communicate the product selections from the local shopping basket to a global shopping basket maintained in a network entity apart from the vendor commerce system, the global shopping basket being capable of storing product selections from more than one vendor and identifying the vendor of each stored selection. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of conducting E-Commerce comprising the steps of:
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providing a vendor commerce system on a customer-acessible electronic network;
maintaining a vendor-specific catalog of products accessible to the vendor commerce system;
presenting, from the vendor commerce system, the vendor specific catalog of products to customers;
receiving from customers product selections;
placing product selections in a local shopping basket;
communicating the product selections in the local shopping basket to a global shopping basket located in a network entity apart from the vendor commerce system through a transaction interface, the global shopping basket being capable of storing product selections from more than one vendor and identifying the vendor of each stored selection. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method of communicating E-commerce information, comprising the steps of:
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operating an electronic communication network, the network operating as a conduit for the transit of data between sources and destinations, the sources and destinations not necessarily adjacently connected to the network;
transiting over the network the contents of a vendor-local shopping basket containing customer product selections to a network object maintaining global shopping baskets;
transiting over the network an indication from a customer that a global checkout operation is to commence of the items contained in a global shopping basket; and
transiting over the network customer-specific information to complete the purchase transaction. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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