Federated marketplace for electronic commerce
First Claim
1. A method for presenting search results of products and services in context with related information contemporaneously presented to a user, the method comprisingcreating a catalog of products and services offered by sponsoring merchants;
- creating an index of the products and services for the catalog;
receiving a current context from the user;
determining a result set of the products and services from the catalog related to the current context; and
generating a presentation of the result set according to a presentation schema that provides an ability for a user to enter a transaction concerning one of the products and services in the result set directly with one of the sponsoring merchants without navigating away from the result set.
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Abstract
A federated marketplace provides a context-based environment for consumers to purchase products and services directly from an Internet-based search engine results page, without the need to navigate to the sponsoring merchant'"'"'s Web site. Detailed descriptions of sponsoring merchants'"'"' products and services are presented directly within the search result Web page, for example, as a layer that may be activated by consumer indications of interest. Meta data identifying the sponsoring merchant'"'"'s goods or services may be retrieved from the sponsoring merchant'"'"'s Web site, either directly or by a search robot, and catalogued within the marketplace. A particular tagging schema may be used to provide Meta data identifying product data for retrieval. An immediate download of a product to a consumer may commence upon purchase.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for presenting search results of products and services in context with related information contemporaneously presented to a user, the method comprising
creating a catalog of products and services offered by sponsoring merchants; -
creating an index of the products and services for the catalog; receiving a current context from the user; determining a result set of the products and services from the catalog related to the current context; and generating a presentation of the result set according to a presentation schema that provides an ability for a user to enter a transaction concerning one of the products and services in the result set directly with one of the sponsoring merchants without navigating away from the result set. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of cataloging products and services of a sponsoring merchant for presentation, selection, and purchase in a federated marketplace in conjunction with results of a general information search, the method comprising
identifying descriptive data in documents associated with the products and services; -
uploading the descriptive data to the federated marketplace; storing the descriptive data in a catalog within the federated marketplace; and indexing the descriptive data in the catalog. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for providing a federated marketplace comprising
a database catalog which stores descriptive data of products and services provided by sponsoring merchants; -
an index module that classifies the products and services according to keyword terms associated with respective ones of the products and services; a search engine module for searching the catalog database for a result set of products and services related to a context of a general search initiated by a user; and a presentation layer module that presents the result set according to a presentation schema and that provides an ability for a user to enter a transaction concerning one of the products and services in the result set directly with one of the sponsoring merchants without navigating away from the result set. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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