DYNAMIC INTERNET SHOPPING METHOD AND SYSTEM
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1. A method of presently recommending goods or services to a potential customer over a distributed network, comprising:
- (a) detecting and storing selected factors of a previous shopping sequence of the potential customer and/or of one or more other customers, the previous shopping sequence(s) having occurred at a shopping site or sites and having resulted in the furnishing of selected information thereat;
(b) in response to the potential customer presently engaging in a shopping sequence at a present shopping site, comparing selected stored factors of the previous shopping sequence(s) to corresponding factors of the present shopping sequence; and
(c) furnishing to the potential customer only information that is substantially the same as that which was furnished during those previous shopping sequence(s) which had selected factors that are substantially matched by the corresponding factors of the present shopping sequence.
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Abstract
(57) Previous shopping sequences'"'"' (8) factors (9)—such as shopping site (10,11) or the item considered for purchase—are collected (50) and stored (52) at a shopping portal (16). When a potential customer engages (56) in a present shopping sequence (13), the factors (9) thereof are compared (58) at a facility (17) to the factors (9) of the previous shopping sequences (8). If the factors of the present shopping sequence match those of any previous shopping sequence, substantially the same information (18) furnished to the previous customers is furnished to the potential customer.
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1. A method of presently recommending goods or services to a potential customer over a distributed network, comprising:
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(a) detecting and storing selected factors of a previous shopping sequence of the potential customer and/or of one or more other customers, the previous shopping sequence(s) having occurred at a shopping site or sites and having resulted in the furnishing of selected information thereat; (b) in response to the potential customer presently engaging in a shopping sequence at a present shopping site, comparing selected stored factors of the previous shopping sequence(s) to corresponding factors of the present shopping sequence; and (c) furnishing to the potential customer only information that is substantially the same as that which was furnished during those previous shopping sequence(s) which had selected factors that are substantially matched by the corresponding factors of the present shopping sequence. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17)
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11. A system for presently recommending goods or services to a potential customer over a distributed network, comprising:
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(a) facilities for detecting and storing selected factors of a previous shopping sequence of the potential customer and/or of one or more other customers, the previous shopping sequence(s) having occurred at a shopping site or sites and having resulted in the furnishing of selected information thereat; (b) facilities responsive to the potential customer presently engaging in a shopping sequence at a present shopping site for comparing selected stored factors of the previous shopping sequence(s) to corresponding factors of the present shopping sequence; and (c) facilities for furnishing to the potential customer only information that is substantially the same as that which was furnished during those previous shopping sequence(s) which had selected factors that are substantially matched by the corresponding factors of the present shopping sequence. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20)
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