Object-based on-line transaction infrastructure

• US 20050004978A1
• Filed: 06/01/2004
• Published: 01/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dan Banay, Drummond Shattuck Reed, Jeffrey Todd Oberlander, Kevin Benard Jones, Peter Earnshaw Heymann, Steven Mark Mushero
• Original Assignee: Dan Banay, Drummond Shattuck Reed, Jeffrey Todd Oberlander, Kevin Benard Jones, Peter Earnshaw Heymann, Steven Mark Mushero
• Inventors: Reed, Drummond Shattuck, Oberlander, Jeffrey Todd, Jones, Kevin Benard, Heymann, Peter Earnshaw, Mushero, Steven Mark, Banay, Dan
• Application Number:
  US10/859,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20050004978A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/102 applying security measure for e-commerce data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for e-commerce G06Q30/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/045 wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply hybrid encryption, i.e. combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements using a plurality of keys or algorithms H04L9/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2876 Pairs of inter-processing entities at each side of the network, e.g. split proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5682 Policies or rules for updating, deleting or replacing the stored data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/14 Multichannel or multilink protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 : Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 : Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 : Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 : Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A computer implemented method for on-line purchasing via the global Internet. At a node connected to the Internet, customer data usable to automatically complete an on-line purchase by the customer of an item from a seller is received and stored. From a server, via the Internet, information is published to a computer of the customer, from the seller, with respect to an item, including metadata for use in associating said customer data with a customer action to purchase said item. A purchase indication is received from the customer computer, including at least a portion of said metadata for use in associating a customer purchase action with the item and metadata for use in associating said customer data with said transaction. In response to receiving said metadata for use in associating a customer purchase action with the item, the purchase is automatically completed by processing said metadata associating said customer data.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

receiving and storing at a node connected to the global Internet customer data usable to automatically complete an on-line purchase by a customer, ordering over the global Internet, of an item from a seller;

from a server communicating with the global Internet, publishing to a computer of the customer, also communicating with the global Internet, information from the seller with respect to an item, including metadata for use in associating said customer data with a customer action to purchase said item;

receiving from the customer computer via the global Internet an indication to initiate a purchase transaction for said item including at least a portion of said metadata for use in associating a customer purchase action with the item and metadata for use in associating said customer data with said transaction;

in response to receiving said metadata for use in associating a customer purchase action with the item, automatically completing the purchase of an item from the seller by processing said metadata associating said customer data.