Placing a Purchase Order via a Communications Network

• US 20130085896A1
• Filed: 11/27/2012
• Published: 04/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1997
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jeffrey P. Bezos, Joel R. Spiegel, Peri Hartman, Sheldon J. Kaphan
• Original Assignee: Jeffrey P. Bezos, Joel R. Spiegel, Peri Hartman, Sheldon J. Kaphan
• Inventors: Hartman, Peri, Bezos, Jeffrey P., Kaphan, Sheldon J., Spiegel, Joel R.
• Application Number:
  US13/686,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20130085896A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.81
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0605 Supply or demand aggregation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/002 Vending machines being part of a centrally controlled network of vending machines
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/962 Operator interface for marketing or sales

Abstract

An order is placed by a purchaser in which a server system receives an identification of the purchaser, payment information, and shipment information from a client system. The server system assigns a client identifier to the client system and associates the identifier with the purchaser information. The server system sends to the client system the identifier and a document identifying an item to be purchased and including an order button. The client system receives and stores the identifier and receives and displays the document. In response to the selection of the order button, the client system sends to the server system a request to purchase the identified item. The server system receives the request and combines the purchaser information associated with the client identifier to generate an order to purchase the item in accordance with the billing and shipment information.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method in a server system for receiving item orders, the method comprising:

providing for display, at the client system, information identifying an item and an indication of a single action that is to be performed to place an order of the identified item, wherein the single action is an only action required by the client system to complete the order of the identified item without requiring the client system to confirm the order following performance of the single action;

receiving, in response to the single action being performed at the client system, a request to order the identified item and a client identifier previously stored on the client system, the request to order being a single-action order request indicated by the single action and the client identifier identifying account information of a user; and

combining, at the server system, into a single order the single action order request indicated by the single action and one or more previous single-action order requests associated with the client identifier in response to receiving the single-action order request.