Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Electronic shopping
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-09
2005-08-09
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
06928417
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for conducting electronic commerce, includes browsing, by a user, for an item over an electronic medium, recognizing that the user is lost in attempting to find the item, and interactively querying, at any time during a session, the user whether the user needs help in finding the item.
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Gart Matthew S
International Business Machines - Corporation
McCabe, Esq. Mark
McGinn & Gibb PLLC
Smith Jeffrey A.
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