Architecture for an electronic shopping service integratable with a software application
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Abstract
An architecture for an integrated shopping service that enables electronic shopping from within a software application. The software application includes web browsing functionality, with the capability to navigate to a limited set of web sites. The client machine on which the software runs maintains a local list of the limited set of web sites that can be accessed from within the software application. A directory server maintains a list of retail web sites that can be added to the client'"'"'s local list of accessible web sites. Each client machine that runs the software application connects to the directory server in order to add web sites to the locally-maintained list of sites that can be accessed from within the integrated shopping service.
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1-17. -17. (cancelled).
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18. A system for supporting electronic commerce comprising:
a first computing device which includes;
a memory which stores first data indicative of a plurality of web sites;
a network interface communicatively coupled to a computer network;
first logic which communicates a list of said plurality of web sites to a second computing device through said network interface; and
second logic which communicates second data indicative of a one of said plurality of web sites to said second computing device through said network interface. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25-35. -35. (cancelled).
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