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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorPaul Moody
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The invention includes methods and software for presenting a user with a set of interfaces that reveal what events are to occur, or are likely to occur, in a transaction, and provide the ability to program the automatic monitoring of these anticipated events with a customizable set of alerts. A merchant encodes events that are possible for the transaction as part of developing an online transaction system such as an online catalog. The data regarding these events is encoded in an electronic communication, such as an email or onsite transaction history item, such that this data can be detected by a receiving system. The method includes presenting and setting monitoring options for event notices that have not yet been received. The chosen options for event notices that have not yet been received are used to program the monitoring and alerting of the user when such event notices have or have not been received.
A system for monitoring a transaction between a client and a transaction server, the transaction involving a series of events, the system comprising:
Computer readable media encoded with a set of software programs, the software programs being executable on one or more computers to support a method for monitoring the status of a transaction performed between a local computer user and a remote computer, the transaction comprising a series of events, the set of software programs comprising:
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