Electronic commerce searching assistant

A computer program product for distributing commercial data associated with a plurality of commercial entities over a wireless communication channel to a remote vendee computer, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to:

• receive an commercial data at a transmission server sent from a commercial entity data source over the internet, the transmission server comprising a microprocessor and a memory that stores a remote vendee's preference for an information format, a commerce object, a vendor, a transaction type;
• wherein the remote vendee computer comprises a commercial viewer application;
• wherein the microprocessor executes program code to:
• filter the received commercial data by comparing the received commercial data to the preferred commerce object;
• generate a commercial notification from the filtered commercial data that contains a commerce object name, a commerce object price, a transaction type and a universal resource locator (“URL”), which specifies the location of the transmission server;
• format the commercial notification into data blocks according to the information format;
• transmit the formatted commercial notification over the wireless communication channel to the remote vendee computer;
• and
• wherein the commercial notification comprises computer code to activate the commercial viewer application to cause the commercial notification to display on the remote vendee computer to enable connection via the URL to the commercial entity data source over the Internet to allow the vendee to finalize a commercial transaction associated with the commercial notification.

A computer system for distributing commercial data associated with a plurality of commercial entities over a wireless communication channel to a remote vendee computer, the computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer-readable storage media;
• program instructions stored on the computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to
• receive commercial data at a transmission server sent from a commercial entity data source over the internet, the transmission server comprising a microprocessor and a memory that stores a remote vendee's preference for an information format, a commerce object, a vendor, a transaction type;
• wherein the remote vendee computer comprises a commercial viewer application;
• wherein the microprocessor executes program instructions to:
• filter the received commercial data by comparing the received commercial data to the preferred commerce object;
• generate a commercial notification from the filtered commercial data that contains a commerce object name, a commerce object price, a transaction type and a universal resource locator (“URL”), which specifies the location of the transmission server;
• format the commercial notification into data blocks according to the information format;
• transmit the formatted commercial notification over the wireless communication channel to the remote vendee computer;
• and
• wherein the commercial notification comprises program instructions to activate the commercial viewer application to cause the commercial notification to display on the remote vendee computer to enable connection via the URL to the commercial entity data source over the Internet to allow the vendee to finalize a commercial transaction associated with the commercial notification.