System & method for purchasing goods or services via the internet

• US 20020077918A1
• Filed: 12/14/2000
• Published: 06/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aviv Atlas, Guy Israeli, Guy Lerner
• Original Assignee: Aviv Atlas, Guy Israeli, Guy Lerner
• Inventors: Lerner, Guy, Israeli, Guy, Atlas, Aviv
• Application Number:
  US09/736,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20020077918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

A method of performing sale transaction between a customer to a commercial web-site via financing system. Wherein the financing system acts not only for money transaction but as an agent of the of the customer.

The customer selects desirable product or service from any commercial web-site and records information relating the product/service sale. The information is routed to the financing organization. Upon receiving the said information the financing organization connects the respective web site and performs the sale transaction according to customer instructions. For the commercial web-site the financing organization is the “real” buyer who pays for the product/service, although said product/service are supplied to the customer address.

Finally, the financing organization debits the customer for the provided product or service, thus there is no direct financial transactions between the customer and the commercial web-site.

Claims

1. A method of performing sale transaction between a customer to a commercial web-site via financing system, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) Selecting any product or service by the customer from commercial web-site;

(b) Presenting by the merchant web-site sale details to the customer;

(c) Recording sale details;

(a) Connecting customer to financing system;

(a) Identifying and authenticating customer by financing system;

(f) Transferring sale details and commercial web-sits identification (web-site identification) from customer to the financing system;

(g) Checking customer credit by the financing system;

(h) Financing system connects commercial web-site according to received web-site identification;

(i) Identifying and authenticating financing system by the commercial site;

(i) Performing sale transaction between commercial web-site and the financing system;

(k) Paying commercial web-site by the financing system according to sale details;

(l) Debiting customer account by the financing system;

according to sale details,

(m) Providing product or service by commercial web-site to customer

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the sale details represent an offer of sale (“

sale offer”

) includes;

sale offer code, sale amount, time and date of sale, product/service IDS etc;

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising the step of recording the first sale details by the commercial web-site;

4. The method of claim 3 wherein step (j) Comprise the following steps;

(n) Transmitting sal offer code with payment order and sale confirmation from financing system to commercial web-site;

(o) Retrieving sale details by commercial mb-site according to sale offer code;

(p) Transmitting sale conformation from commercial web-site to the financing system;

(q) Performing sale transaction between merchant and financing organization according to sale offer details wherein the financing organization acts as a buyer.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein stage (c), (d) and (n) are implemented by an applet program located at the commercial web-site server.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the applet program performs the flowing steps:

(r) Recording sale offer;

(s) Activating new browser window at the customer terminal to connect the customer to the financing organization web site

(t) Transferring sale offer code and commercial web-site identification to financing organization web site;

7. The method of claim 1 wherein sale detail include all necessary details for performing the sale transaction;

8. The method of claim 7 wherein step (j) comprise the following steps;

(u) Transmitting sale details from financing system to commercial web-site;

(v) Checking sale details by commercial web-site;

(w) Transmitting sale confirmation including sale offer from commercial web-site to the financing system;

(x) Performing sale transaction between merchant and financing organization according to sale offer details wherein the financing organization acts as a buyer.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein step (J) comprise the following steps;

(y) Selecting products/services according to sale details and customer preferences (e.g. price ranges) in commercial web-site by the financing organization;

(z) Preparing and Transmitting sale offer including complete sale details from commercial web-site to the financing system;

(aa) Confirming complete sale details by the financing system;

(bb) Performing sale transaction between merchant and financing organization according to sale offer details wherein the financing organization acts as a buyer.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein stage Y is implemented by a smart agent applications for searching data in the commercial web-site server

14. The system of claim 3 wherein the means for performing the sale transaction further comprise:

(j) Means for transmitting payment order and sale confirmation from financing system to commercial web-site according to sale offer code;

(k) Means for retrieving sale details by commercial web-site according to sale offer code and confirming the sale by the commercial web-site.

(l) Means for performing sale transaction between merchant and financing organization according to sale offer details wherein the financing organization acts as a buyer.

19. The system of claim 1 wherein the means for performing the sale transaction further comprise.

(s) Means for selecting products/services according to sale details and customer preferences (e.g. price ranges) in commercial web-site by the financing organization;

(t) Means for preparing and transmitting sale offer including complete sale details from commercial web-site to the financing system;

(u) Verifying means for confirming complete sale details by the financing system;

(v) Means for performing sale transaction between merchant and financing organization according to sale offer details wherein the financing organization acts as a buyer.

20. The system of claim 9 wherein the means for selecting products is implemented by a smart agent applications for searching data and placing a complete order in the commercial web-site server.

11. A system of performing sale transaction between a customer to a commercial web-site via financing system, said system comprised of:

(a) Storing means for recording sale details;

(b) Communication means for connecting customer to financing system;

(c) Detecting means for identifying and authenticating customer by financing system;

(d) Communication means for transferring sale details and commercial web-site identification and/or address from customer to the financing system;

(e) Verifying means for checking customer credit by the financing system;

(f) Communication means for connecting financing system to commercial web-site according to received identification and/or address;

(g) Identifying means for detecting and authenticating financing system by the commercial site;

(h) Means for performing sale transaction between commercial web-site and the financing system;

(i) Financial means for paying commercial web-site by the financing system according to sale details and debiting customer account by the financing system according to sale details;

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the sale details represent an offer of sale (“

sale offer”

) include;

sale offer code, sale amount, time and date of sale, product/service IDs etc;

13. The system of claim 12 further comprising storing means for recording the first sale details by the commercial web-site;

15. The system of claim 14 wherein means (d) and (f) are implemented by an applet program located at the commercial web-site server.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the applet program is comprised of

(m) Navigating/Browsing means for directing the customer terminal to connect the financing organization web site

(n) Communication means for transferring sale offer code and commercial web-site identification to financing organization web site;

17. The system of claim 11 wherein sale detail include all necessary details for performing the sale transaction;

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the means for performing the sale transaction further comprise:

(o) Communication means for transmitting sale details from financing system to commercial web-site;

(p) Verifying means for checking sale details by commercial web-site;

(q) Communication means for transmitting sale confirmation including sale offer from commercial web-site to the financing system;

(r) Means for performing sale transaction between merchant and financing organization according to sale offer details wherein the financing organization acts as a buyer.