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Merging private images for gifting

  • US 7,917,397 B1
  • Filed: 08/14/2006
  • Issued: 03/29/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/14/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for previewing an article on a personal-body structure, comprising:

  • providing a host site accessible to an on-line shopping PC operated by an on-line shopper and web-linking the on-line shopping PC to a plurality of article-provider sites, the article provider sites having images of commercial articles for view via the web;

    linking the on-line shopping PC to the host site;

    providing to the host site, from the on-line shopping PC, information for dressing a personal-body structure that is stored at the on-line shopping PC;

    using the host site, linking the on-line shopping PC to a set of retailers including different article-provider sites and passing respective visual images of commercial articles from the set of article-provider sites to the host site for view at the on-line shopping PC by the on-line shopper;

    at the on-line shopping PC, merging images of the commercial articles and the personal-body structure by forming a composite image including a visual representation of the commercial articles on the personal-body structure;

    displaying the composite image.

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