Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Electronic shopping
Patent
1996-10-16
1999-04-27
Tkacs, Stephen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Electronic shopping
705 27, 707 3, 707104, 707501, 707513, G06F 1760, G06F 1300, G06F 1516
Patent
active
058976221
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a merchant system for online shopping and merchandising. The merchant system architecture provides great flexibility for a merchant to adapt the merchant system to their existing business practices, promotions and databases. The merchant system includes a dynamic page generator, a configurable order processing module and a database module capable of retrieving data from the database without regard to its schema. The present invention enables merchants to create electronic orders which are easily adaptable for different sales situations. The order processing module includes multiple configurable stages to process a merchant's electronic orders. The merchant system is capable of generating pages dynamically using templates having embedded directives. The database module and the dynamic page generator allow merchants to modify their databases and page displays without having to reengineer the merchant system.
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Blinn Arnold
Cohen Michael Ari
Lorton Michael
Stein Gregory J.
Microsoft Corporation
Tkacs Stephen R.
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