System and method for the on-line purchase of products through a guest registration
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A computer implemented method for providing on-line purchasing of products through a communications network comprising:
- determining that a user at a user terminal is interacting with a host website as a guest registrant;
collecting information during an on-line purchasing process that is used to establish a member registration account; and
associating the member registration account with the user that is interacting with the host website as a guest registrant.
8 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A computer implemented system and method for providing on-line purchasing of products through a communications network are provided. An application server of the system is adapted to determine that a user is interacting with a website associated with the application server as a guest registrant. A guest processing component residing on the application server obtains information during an on-line purchasing process that is used to establish a member registration account. The member registration account is associated with the user that interacts with the host website as a guest registrant.
32 Citations
51 Claims
-
1. A computer implemented method for providing on-line purchasing of products through a communications network comprising:
-
determining that a user at a user terminal is interacting with a host website as a guest registrant;
collecting information during an on-line purchasing process that is used to establish a member registration account; and
associating the member registration account with the user that is interacting with the host website as a guest registrant. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
-
-
12. A computer implemented system for providing on-line purchases of products through a communications network comprising:
-
an application server adapted to determine that a user at a user terminal is interacting with a host website as a guest registrant; and
a guest processing component associated with the application server that is adapted to obtain information during an on-line purchasing process that is used to establish a member registration account that is associated with the user having guest registrant status during the interaction with the host website. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
-
-
27. A computer implemented method of providing on-line purchasing of products through a communications network comprising:
-
determining that a user at a user terminal is interacting with a host website as a guest registrant;
determining if the user has made prior product purchases via the host website;
processing a new product purchase of the user as the guest registrant during an on-line purchasing process with the host website;
identifying an existing member registration account associated with the user in which the existing member registration account has stored information regarding prior product purchases of the user; and
storing information regarding the new product purchase made by the user as the guest registrant in the existing member registration account associated with the user. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
-
-
41. A computer implemented system for providing on-line purchasing of products through a communications network comprising:
-
an application server adapted to determine that a user at a user terminal is interacting with a host website as a guest registrant and to initiate processing of a new product purchase during an on-line purchasing process with the host website;
a guest processing component, associated with the application server, adapted to determine if the user has made prior product purchases via the host website; and
a member database coupled with the application server that stores member registration accounts in which the guest processing component is adapted to identify an existing member registration account associated with the user, the existing member registration account has stored information regarding prior product purchases of the user, and the member database stores information regarding the new product purchase made by the user as a guest registrant in the existing member registration account. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
-
-
46. The system of 45 in which the guest processing component allows for completion of the new product purchase without requiring receipt of a password from the user terminal.
Specification