Web-Service Transaction Systems

• US 20100306065A1
• Filed: 11/30/2009
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1995
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lakshmi Arunachalam
• Original Assignee: Lakshmi Arunachalam
• Inventors: Arunachalam, Lakshmi
• Granted Patent: US 8,244,833 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.73
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/18 Delegation of network management function, e.g. customer network management [CNM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing real-time, two-way transactional capabilities on the Web. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for enabling object routing, the method comprising the steps of creating a virtual information store containing information entries and attributes associating each of the information entries and the attributes with an object identity, and assigning a unique network address to each of the object identities. A method is also disclosed for enabling service management of the value-added network service, to perform OAM&P functions on the services network

Claims

1. A web service transaction system for allowing N-Way transactions comprising:

a web-based application accessible by N web participants, where N is an integer greater than 1, each of the web participants providing a service, and wherein the web-based application allows transfer of information between members of the N web participants;

a user interface to the web-based application, wherein a user can access a service from at least one of the N web participants; and

wherein the web-based application notifies at least one of the web participants when the user accesses a service from another of the web participants.

2. The web service transaction system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the N web participants is a merchant.

3. The web service transaction system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the services includes advertising.

4. The web service transaction system of claim 1, wherein the web-based application also sends advertising to the user.

5. The web service transaction system of claim 4, wherein the advertising originates at one of the N web participants.

6. The web service transaction system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the N participants exchanges multi-media information with the user in real time.

7. The web service transaction system of claim 1, wherein N is an integer greater than 2.

8. A cooperative multiple merchant web service system comprising:

at least one point of service application accessible by a plurality of web merchants, each of the web merchants providing goods or services, the point of service application allowing transfer of information between the web merchants; and

a user interface to the point of service application, wherein the user can access at least some of the goods or services, and wherein access by the user to one of the merchant'"'"'s goods or services is communicated to at least one other of the merchants.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein a particular one of the web merchants provides the service of maintaining a record of the user'"'"'s accesses.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the particular one of the merchants allows the user to provide funds for at least some of the accesses.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein one of the merchants is a financial institution.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein at least one of the merchants provides fungible goods.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein at least one of the merchants provides exchanges multi-media information with the user.