METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING PURCHASE TRANSACTIONS ACROSS A NETWORK
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Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a system that provides information and records information to facilitate a purchase transaction across a network. The system operates by receiving a request for billing information relating to a purchase transaction from a remote computer system. In response to the request, the system retrieves the billing information from a local store in the local computer system, and sends the billing information to the remote computer system. After the remote computer system completes the purchase transaction, the system receives confirmation information for the purchase transaction from the remote computer system. The system records this confirmation information in the local store in the local computer system. This enables a user of the local computer system to subsequently look up the confirmation information based on a purchase transaction identifier. In one embodiment of the present invention, retrieving the billing information involves asking the user of the local computer system if the billing information can be released to the remote computer system. If the user confirms that the billing information can be released to the remote computer system, the local computer system sends the billing information to the remote computer system.
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46 Claims
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22. A method for facilitating a purchase transaction using a computerized apparatus in communication with a network, comprising:
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electronically retrieving at least some of the billing information from an electronic storage device; sending the retrieved billing information to the remote computer system so that the remote computer system can complete the purchase transaction; and receiving confirmation information for the purchase transaction from the remote computer system. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A computerized apparatus for facilitating purchase transactions, comprising:
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apparatus configured to obtain billing information that has been provided by a user; an electronic storage device that is configured to store at least some of the billing information; apparatus configured to retrieve at least some of the billing information from the electronic storage device, and to send the retrieved billing information to a remote computer apparatus; and wherein the apparatus configured to retrieve is further configured to receive confirmation information for the purchase transaction from the remote computer apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A method for facilitating a purchase transaction using a networked computerized apparatus, the method comprising:
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obtaining billing information data submitted by a user; storing the billing information data in a storage device on the networked computerized apparatus; authenticating the user via the receipt of authentication data obtained from the user, and if the authentication is successful, granting access to the stored billing information; sending the stored billing information to a remote computerized apparatus in order to facilitate execution of the purchase transaction; and receiving confirmation information for the purchase transaction from the remote computerized apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A method for facilitating a plurality of purchase transactions using a networked computerized apparatus, the method comprising:
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obtaining billing information data submitted by a user; storing the billing information data in a storage device on the networked computerized apparatus; authenticating the user for a first purchase via receipt of authentication data obtained from the user, and if the authentication is successful, granting access to the stored billing information; sending the stored billing information to a second computerized apparatus in order to facilitate execution of the purchase transaction; receiving confirmation information for the purchase transaction from the second computerized apparatus; and subsequently granting access to the stored billing information pursuant to a second purchase transaction by the same user, wherein the user is required to only re-enter the authentication data, and not the billing information, for the second purchase.
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45. A method for facilitating one or more purchase transactions using a networked computerized apparatus, the method comprising:
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authenticating a user for a purchase via receipt of authentication data obtained from the user, and if the authentication is successful, granting access to stored billing information having previously been submitted by the user; storing the billing information data in a storage device on the networked computerized apparatus; sending the stored billing information to a second computerized apparatus in order to facilitate execution of the purchase transaction; and receiving confirmation information for the purchase transaction from the second computerized apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (46)
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