Enhancing touch and feel on the internet

• US 8,850,361 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2006
• Issued: 09/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Scott C Harris
• Original Assignee: Scott C Harris
• Inventors: Harris, Scott C
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US11/277,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20060178952A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,115 Days
• Field of Search: 715851-853, 715763-765, 715/766, 715738-739, 709/209, 709/229
• US Class Current: 715/851
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2111/02 CAD in a network environment, e.g. collaborative CAD or distributed simulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2113/20 Packaging, e.g. boxes or containers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/23 using finite element methods [FEM] or finite difference methods [FDM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23412 for generating or manipulating the scene composition of objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A system for enabling touch and feel over the internet provides a three-dimensional representation of a good being sold, that three-dimensional representation being viewable from a number of different directions. In one embodiment, the good being sold is in a package and the package is displayed from the number of different directions. Another embodiment has the good being a book, and the inside and outside covers of the book are displayed and specified pages of the book can be displayed. The user can read from either the label or the covers just like as if the were actually handling the good.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

sending a request from a user on a client computer connected to a network for more information about a specified product, said sending requesting first information about said specified product;

receiving said first information on said client computer responsive to said request, said first information including information indicative of a first two dimensional image of said product;

displaying said first two dimensional image on said client responsive to said receiving;

after said first two dimensional image has displayed on said client, and while said client is displaying said first two dimensional image, receiving additional information on said client indicative of a simulated three-dimensional view of said product also responsive to said request and without sending another request; and

subsequently to said receiving said first two dimensional image, and displaying said first two dimensional image and receiving said additional information, and responsive to said receiving said additional information, automatically displaying said simulated three-dimensional view on said client without sending another request other than said request.

2. A method as in claim 1, further comprising subsequently controlling a user at the client to view the product from different perspectives using said additional information.

3. A method as in claim 2, wherein the product is a product that comes in a bottle.

4. A method as in claim 2, wherein the product is a book.

5. A method as in claim 2, wherein said displaying comprises displaying said three dimensional view in place of said first two dimensional image on said client.

6. A method as in claim 1, wherein said three-dimensional view is automatically displayed when it is completely loaded.

7. A method as in claim 1, wherein said three-dimensional view is a simulated three-dimensional view that allows a user to view the product from multiple different directions.

8. A method as in claim 1, wherein said three-dimensional view is a continuous three-dimensional view that can be rotated.

9. A method as in claim 1, wherein said three-dimensional view starts loading when said first two-dimensional image has been displayed.