Methods and Systems for Electronic Transactions
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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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51 Claims
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37. A method, comprising:
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defining purchasing requirements representing rules set by a buyer; and determining, by a computer device, at least one purchasing strategy by comparing the purchasing requirements to vendor scripts including rules regarding at least one of goods or services offered by a vendor. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A system for providing purchase suggestions, comprising:
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means for defining purchasing requirements representing rules set by a buyer; and means for determining at least one purchasing strategy by comparing the purchasing requirements to vendor scripts including rules regarding at least one of goods or services offered by a vendor. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. 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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defining purchasing requirements representing rules set by a buyer; and determining at least one purchasing strategy by comparing the purchasing requirements to vendor scripts including rules regarding at least one of goods or services offered by a vendor. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51)
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