Method and system for information exchange between users of different web pages
AssigneeAmazon.com, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey P. Bezos, Ashish Gupta
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Abstract
A method and system for allowing users of different web pages to exchange information. The information exchange system identifies groups of related web pages and maintains a database of user-supplied information for each group of related web pages. When a user accesses a web page, the information exchange often displays in a separate area the information associated with the group of related web pages. Also, the information exchange system allows the user to enter information that will be displayed to other users who access related web pages.
Claims21
A method in a computer system for exchanging information between users of web sites, the method comprising:
- providing a mapping between a first web site and a second web site;
- when a first user accesses the first web site,
- providing a web page of the first web site;
- receiving information from the first user;
- and
- storing the received information based on the provided mapping;
- and
- when a second user accesses the second web site,
- providing a web page of the second web site;
- retrieving the stored information based on the provided mapping;
- and
- providing a display of the retrieved information so that the first and second users can exchange information.
A method in a computer system for controlling the exchange of information between users of web pages, the method comprising:
- receiving an indication of a web page from a first user computer;
- retrieving the web page from a first web server;
- sending the retrieved web page to the first user computer;
- retrieving information associated with the web page, the retrieved information having been previously received from second user computer when accessing a web page of a second web server;
- and
- sending the retrieved information to the first user computer.
A method in a computer system for accessing information associated with a web page, the method comprising:
- sending a request for a first web page;
- and
- in response to sending the request,
- receiving the first web page;
- and
- receiving information associated with the first web page, the information being previously entered by a user when accessing a second web page, the information having been entered separately from the second web page.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.