Title:
NEW MEDIA ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (NMEC) SYSTEM AND METHOD
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2000050968
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A system and method to conduct electronic commerce not necessarily over the Internet has a plurality of individual consumers, network groups of consumers, and a server (Fig. 1) (22, 34). The consumers receive a distributed computer-readable medium having: a pre-stored interactive database of product information of a plurality of products; (Fig. 2) (22, 52) and predetermined software for performing graphic-user-interface-based review, selection, and order processing by a respective consumer of selected products from the pre-stored interactive database to generate the pre-stored order stored in the respective computer of the respective consumer (Fig. 33). The predetermined software is installable on a computer associated with a respective consumer. The predetermined software is installable on a computer associated with a respective consumer, with the predetermined software isolated from and not in constant communication with the Internet. The server includes a communications module with electronic communication connections to a computer of a consumer and receiving the pre-stored order therefrom, and an order-processing module for processing the transmitted pre-stored order for product fulfillment.
Inventors:
JAQUISH PAUL E
NGUYEN VIET A
WEBSTER MARK K
NGUYEN VIET A
WEBSTER MARK K
Application Number:
PCT/US2000/004789
Publication Date:
January 08, 2004
Filing Date:
February 25, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
INTERNET PLUS INC (US)
International Classes:
G06Q30/00; (IPC1-7): G06F17/60
Foreign References:
| US5710887A | 1998-01-20 | |||
| US5790677A | 1998-08-04 |
Other References:
See also references of EP 1399859A4
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