MULTI-PICTURE ONLINE COMMERCE FEATURE
First Claim
1. A computer readable medium having computer readable program for operating on a computer for enhancing a Web based selling platform, said program comprising instructions that cause the computer to perform the steps of:
- retrieving images associated by a common seller based on a query of one item from said common seller from a list of items;
manipulating the retrieved images to produce a master image of thumbnail images of the retrieved images, each of the thumbnail images having unique master image coordinates; and
providing for an image map wherein a user clicks on one of the thumbnail images to send a request to a server storing the image map, said request including the unique master image coordinates of the thumbnail image, to query a Web server for a detail information page of an associated registered item and sending the information page to the user for viewing.
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Abstract
A software application that provides images of multiple items associated by a common seller on an on-line commerce network comprising query software for automatically retrieving from a list all items associated by a common seller from a server, retrieving the location of an image of each item and retrieving the image of each item after a user has identified an item being sold by the seller from a list, display software for automatically displaying the retrieved images as thumbnail images with an image map layer containing each location of the server of a file associated with each thumbnail image. The invention also comprises a method of doing the same.
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14 Claims
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1. A computer readable medium having computer readable program for operating on a computer for enhancing a Web based selling platform, said program comprising instructions that cause the computer to perform the steps of:
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retrieving images associated by a common seller based on a query of one item from said common seller from a list of items;
manipulating the retrieved images to produce a master image of thumbnail images of the retrieved images, each of the thumbnail images having unique master image coordinates; and
providing for an image map wherein a user clicks on one of the thumbnail images to send a request to a server storing the image map, said request including the unique master image coordinates of the thumbnail image, to query a Web server for a detail information page of an associated registered item and sending the information page to the user for viewing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system for enhancing a Web based selling platform, said system comprising:
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images associated by a common seller based on a query of one item from said common seller from a list of items;
an image map generator for manipulating the associated images to produce a master image of thumbnail images of the associated images, each of the thumbnail images having unique master image coordinates, said image map generator providing an image map stored on a server; and
a Web server, wherein a user clicks on one of the thumbnail images to send a request to the server storing the image map, said request including the unique master image coordinates of the thumbnail image, to query the Web server for a detail information page of an associated registered item and sending the information page to the user for viewing. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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