Electronic Transactions Based on Deal Forms
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Abstract
In the preferred computer system, the user is provided with a separate Internet-accessible entity referred to here as the “personal page.” A personal page, preferably, includes memory for storing information related to the user. For example, on his/her personal page the user indicates what he/she wishes to purchase, possibly along with other criteria associated with the purchase, such as, for example, a time that the purchase should take The user is provided with the ability to create personalized bidding rules that vendors that offer goods and services must respect. Vendors have the ability to specify similar criteria, which describe the goods and/or services they offer. Vendors can indicate, for example, the prices of their goods, times and places that their services are available, etc. Preferably, these specifications, called “vendor scripts,” are embodied in active software/data entities (agents) that traverse sites on the Internet visiting sites hosting users'"'"' personal pages. Thus, preferably, vendor software/data agents (comprising vendor scripts) are the mobile, active elements in the system and purchasing requirements are stationary and more passive in comparison.
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Citations
54 Claims
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1-36. -36. (canceled)
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37. A method for processing a sale, comprising:
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determining whether a first deal identifier received from a first user and a second deal identifier received from a second user identify a common deal form; transmitting a deal form to the first user and to the second user in response to determining that the first deal identifier and the second deal identifier identify the common deal form; receiving a first executed deal form from the first user and a second executed deal form from the second user; comparing the first executed deal form to the second executed deal form to determine whether the first executed deal form and the second executed deal form are compatible; and processing the sale in response to determining that the first executed deal form and the second executed deal form are compatible. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. A system for processing a sale, comprising:
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means for determining whether a first deal identifier received from a first user and a second deal identifier received from a second user identify a common deal form; means for transmitting a deal form to the first user and to the second user in response to determining that the first deal identifier and the second deal identifier identify the common deal form; means for receiving a first executed deal form from the first user and a second executed deal form from the second user; means for comparing the first executed deal form to the second executed deal form to determine whether the first executed deal form and the second executed deal form are compatible; and means for processing the sale in response to determining that the first executed deal form and the second executed deal form are compatible. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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49. An article of manufacture including a tangible computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, that in response to execution by a computing device cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
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determining whether a first deal identifier received from a first user and a second deal identifier received from a second user identify a common deal form; transmitting a deal form to the first user and to the second user in response to determining that the first deal identifier and the second deal identifier identify the common deal form; receiving a first executed deal form from the first user and a second executed deal form from the second user; comparing the first executed deal form to the second executed deal form to determine whether the first executed deal form and the second executed deal form are compatible; and processing the sale in response to determining that the first executed deal form and the second executed deal form are compatible. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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