PROVIDING SERVICES FROM A REMOTE COMPUTER SYSTEM TO A USER STATION OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

• US 20110016013A1
• Filed: 09/29/2010
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1994
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TMI Solutions LLC (Strategic Intellectual Solutions, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Twintech E.U.
• Inventors: Reisman, Richard R.
• Application Number:
  US12/893,246
• Publication Number:
  US 20110016013A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/025 Coordination of plural reservations, e.g. plural trip segments, transportation combined with accommodation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/123 Tax preparation or submission
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 8/18 Address timing or clocking circuits; Address control signal generation or management, e.g. for row address strobe [RAS] or column address strobe [CAS] signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• 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 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing services from a remote computer system to a user station over a communications network, including automated identification of users. During a first communication session between a user station and a remote computer system, the user station provides first user identification information to the remote computer system. The remote computer system uses the first user identification information in transaction during the first communication session. The remote computer system also stores at least a portion of the first user identification information. The remote computer system also provides second user identification information to the user station, which is stored at the user station. The remote computer system also generates an association between the stored first user identification information and the second user identification information. During subsequent communication sessions between the user station and the remote computer system, the user station automatically provides the stored second user identification information to the remote computer system, that is, without user-prompting. The remote computer system uses the received second user identification information and the association, during the subsequent communication session, to identify and retrieve the stored first user identification information. The remote computer system then uses the retrieved first user identification information in the subsequent transaction.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for transacting electronic commerce between a remote computer system and a user station over a communications network, at least a portion of which includes the Internet, comprising:

during a first user-initiated communications session,

receiving at the remote computer system user station information for a user station not previously identified to the remote computer system from the user station for storage remote from the user station,

providing user station identification information from the remote computer system to the user station for automatic storage at the user station,

creating an association at the remote computer system between the user station identification information and the user station information, and

using at the remote computer system the user station information when processing a first purchase transaction; and

during a second user-initiated communications session subsequent to and separate from the first user-initiated communications session,

receiving at the remote computer system the user station identification information automatically accessed on the user station, and

accessing the stored user station information using the remote computer system and the received user identification information when processing a subsequent purchase transaction associated with the communications session.

2. A computer implemented method for transacting electronic commerce between a remote computer system and a user station over a communications network, at least a portion of which includes the Internet, comprising:

during a first user-initiated communications session,

receiving at the remote computer system user information for a user not previously identified to the remote computer system from the user station for storage remote from the user station,

providing user identification information from the remote computer system to the user station for automatic storage at the user station,

creating an association at the remote computer system between the user identification information and the user information, and

processing a first purchase transaction using at the remote computer system the user information; and

during a second user-initiated communications session subsequent to and separate from the first user-initiated communications session,

receiving at the remote computer system the user identification information automatically accessed on the user station, and

accessing the stored user information using the remote computer system and the received user identification information when processing a subsequent purchase transaction associated with the communications session.

3. A computer implemented method for transacting electronic commerce between a remote computer system and a user station over a communications network at least a portion of which includes the Internet, comprising:

during a first user-initiated communications session, receiving at the remote computer system user information for a user not previously identified to the remote computer system from the user station for storage remote from the user station;

sending user identification information from the remote computer system to the user station for automatic storage at the user station by software running at the user station;

creating an association at the remote computer system between the user identification information and the user information;

using at the remote computer system the user information when processing a first purchase transaction;

during a second user-initiated communications session subsequent to and separate from the first user-initiated communications session, receiving at the remote computer system from the user station the user identification information automatically accessed by the user station; and

using at the remote computer system the user identification information to gain access to the stored user information when processing a subsequent purchase transaction associated with the communications session.