Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Electronic shopping
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-03
2006-10-03
Smith, Jeffrey A. (Department: 3625)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Electronic shopping
Reexamination Certificate
active
07117168
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a method for gift selection and fulfillment, especially suited to children, which comprises: contacting a potential gift giver by conventional advertising; providing information to the potential gift giver for contacting an order accepting system; obtaining an order from the gift giver that includes a set of gift selection criteria; supplying a computer program for comparing that is used for comparing the gift selection criteria with a set of gift selection rules; and generating a set of gift choices and storing the gift choices in a database record-keyed to a unique access code: notifying the recipient of the unique access code to make a gift choice by means of a connection to a computer network; generating a display of the available gift choices along with a personal message and photo of the gift giver, keyed to the unique access code; recording the recipient's gift selection and generating a delivery order for delivery of the gift selected to the recipient. The method may that further comprise obtaining from the gift giver information regarding other children to whom the gift giver wishes to give gifts on specified occasions; storing the information with gift giver contact information; and sending a reminder of the specified gift occasion to the gift giver to initiate a new gift selection and delivery. The method may include having the set of gift selection rules include special interest items. The method may also include gift selection rules that are provided by a team having one or more experts in child development, and with input from children.
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Kidegift Inc.
McGregor Martin L.
Smith Jeffrey A.
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