Vincent B Moneymaker

US Patent:

20020049708, Apr 25, 2002

Filed:

May 1, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/846787

Inventors:

Vincent Moneymaker - Manhattan Beach CA, US
Anthony Gaw - Henderson NV, US

International Classification:

G06F007/00

US Classification:

707/001000

Abstract:

The present invention provides a method and system for selecting and/or ordering information and/or items in a networked computer environment. The method and system enables multiple items of information and/or products to be presented, manipulated, configured and selected by a client/user via a single emanation of a graphical interface environment (i.e. a single computer screen ‘web page’) without the client/user ever having to leave this static environment in order to complete the process of selecting the items of information or products he or she desires. The present invention enables entire product lines, such as, for example, a restaurant's entire menu, to be made available for networked use by a client/user via a single ‘web page’ so that each item on the menu can be displayed and selected by the client/user. And no matter the complexity of the choices presented, even if secondary, tertiary, or quartic subsets of choices are presented, these choices can be displayed, manipulated, configured and selected all through the same static interface environment. In effect, the present invention allows a business to display all of its products for sale via a single web page and then have its customers order any of these products, or their relevant subsets of options, without the customer ever having to leave this single web page.

US Patent:

20020026374, Feb 28, 2002

Filed:

May 1, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/846652

Inventors:

Vincent Moneymaker - Manhattan Beach CA, US
Anthony Gaw - Henderson NV, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/026000

Abstract:

The present invention provides a method and system for enabling and processing transactions between parties in a computer-networked ‘online’ environment and then amalgamating orders which are remunerated in an online environment across an array of merchants so as to reduce transactional costs for facilitators which implement the present invention, as well as for merchants who participate in the implementation of the system. The present invention further enables implementing facilitators to track transactions which occur in an online environment but which are paid either in an offline environment or in an online environment and to then receive remuneration for both types of transactions from transactions which are processed by the facilitator throught its transactional gateway. Additionally, the present invention allows implementing facilitators to eliminate the need to receive payment for their services via invoiced accounts receivables by enabling such facilitators to receive payment for their services directly from orders which the facilitator processes on behalf of participating merchants. This method and system also enables merchants to achieve an ‘online’ presence while at the same time avoiding costs of sale which are associated with maintaining an online presence until a sale of a product or service actually occurs. Relying on the method and system provided for in the present invention, a facilitator can also expand the services it provides to participating merchants while at the same time completely avoiding accounts receivables payment issues vis-a-vis participating merchants. As a result, the present invention enables implementing facilitators to reduce online transactional costs for both themselves and participating merchants while at the same time enabling merchants to obtain an online presence in an efficient and cost effective manner.