Method and System for Distributed Point of Sale Transactions
First Claim
1. A method of executing a sale transaction initiated by a remote computer operated by a user displaying a web-page associated with a seller comprising:
- Receiving a customer identifier from the remote computer;
Retrieving from storage at least one product identifier and associated sales data corresponding to said customer identifier;
Operating an inter-process communication protocol with a secure process operating on the remote computer in order to receive authentication data associated with the user;
Receiving a payment token using the inter-process communication protocol with the secure process operating on the remote computer.
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Abstract
A method and system for a fully distributed on-line selling environment is presented. Any webpage can contain a program module that for each customer that view any webpage with the module embedded in it, automatically associates that customer with their corresponding shopping cart stored at a central server. The module can initiate a sale transaction for a product presented on the webpage and cause the central server to complete the purchase and fulfillment. The website hosting the webpages with the module do not operate any back end transaction processing or order fulfillment. Instead the central server can retrieve a pending sales data associated with the customer and then initiate a payment process for the pending sale items as well as generate revenue share credits for the webpages associated with the sales.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of executing a sale transaction initiated by a remote computer operated by a user displaying a web-page associated with a seller comprising:
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Receiving a customer identifier from the remote computer; Retrieving from storage at least one product identifier and associated sales data corresponding to said customer identifier; Operating an inter-process communication protocol with a secure process operating on the remote computer in order to receive authentication data associated with the user; Receiving a payment token using the inter-process communication protocol with the secure process operating on the remote computer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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14. A distributed on-line sales system comprising;
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A first server that stores data representing pending sales data associated with a plurality of customer identifiers, said pending sales data being comprised of pending sales data associated with transactions initiated from a first seller and an unrelated second seller; and a second server that executes transaction checkout processing for the pending sales data. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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