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AssigneeDealer Dot Com, Inc.
InventorsJai Paul MACKER, Chris SCOTT, Robert Anthony GEORGE, Joseph James PISTELL
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A method of accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by a user on different website domains includes providing a first embedded code on a first website domain and a second embedded code on a second website domain in which the first website domain is different from said second website domain. Each of the embedded codes allows a specified third party server to communicate interactively with the user. The method further includes automatically accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by the user in a database on the specified third party server, wherein the personalized list includes at least a first product and a second product, wherein the first product is on the first website domain and the second product is on the second website domain.
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A method comprising:
A system comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions, that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations of:
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Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
Retrieval from the web: organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
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This patent application generally relates to a system for automatically displaying products on distinct web domains. More particularly, it relates to a system that automatically allows a user to see relevant information from an unrelated web domain while viewing a different web domain. Even more particularly, it relates to a system that automatically allows a user to link to the information from the unrelated web domain while viewing the different web domain.
Users, such as customers for automobiles viewing cars on the internet, have had no way to easily compare cars sold by competing dealers. Nor have they had an automatic system for doing so. A better scheme is needed, and such solutions are provided by the following description.
One aspect of the present patent application is a method of accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by a user on different website domains. The method includes providing a first embedded code on a first website domain and a second embedded code on a second website domain in which the first website domain is different from the second website domain. Each of the embedded codes allows a specified third party server to communicate interactively with the user. The method further includes automatically accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by the user in a database on the specified third party server, wherein the personalized list includes at least a first product and a second product, wherein the first product is on the first website domain and the second product is on the second website domain.
The foregoing will be apparent from the following detailed description, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a screen shot showing what a user sees when viewing a product on a first domain;
FIG. 2 is a screen shot showing products drat a user sees when visiting a second domain to continue shopping;
The present applicants created a system that automatically saves and displays as a hyperlinked list all of the competing products viewed by a user, although the products may be found on different website domains. The system also allows the user to select favorite ones among the viewed products for separate display to the user. The scheme also allows the user to receive alerts related to any of the products so selected if the user provides contact information.
In one embodiment, illustrated in FIG. 1, a user may view one or more products, such as automobiles or other motor vehicles, on first website domain 20a, such as the website of a first automobile dealership, in this example DARCARS Ford. While automobiles are used for illustrative purposes in this patent application, the subject of the viewing can be any kind of product.
Each automobile on the dealership lot may be displayed on its own page or pages on the automobile dealers website, The first page on that website may include a photograph and text with description of the automobile's features, manufacturers suggested retail price, sale price, financing information, and location, as also shown in FIG. 1. It can include links to additional photographs, a video, and additional information about the vehicle . It can also include links to schedule an appointment to see or test drive the vehicle. Each page of the website for a particular vehicle has its own unique URL 22 that includes website-domain 20a.