Populating an E-commerce shopping cart and other E-commerce fields based upon content extracted from natural language input

A system for conducting electronic commerce comprising:

• an e-commerce server configured to receive shopper input, to conduct an e-commerce transaction based upon this input, wherein during the e-commerce transaction a shopper purchases at least one available item;
• an input processing system configured to receive free form shopper input comprising at least two of a free form voice input, a text message, an email, a fax message, a browser input, and an image and semantically interpret the free form shopper input into discrete data fields relevant for the e-commerce transaction, wherein the free form shopper input is an unstructured shopping request comprising information related to one or more items, at least one of a shipping address, and payment details;
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• a merchandise data store configured to record a set of items available for purchase, wherein at least a portion of the discrete data fields identify shopper desired ones of the set of items.

A program stored in at least one non-transitory storage medium that when executed by at least one computing device produces a shopper facing e-commerce interface comprises:

• a natural language input element through which a shopper is able to input an unstructured shopping request in a natural language format, wherein the free form input comprises at least two of a free form voice input, a text message, an email, a fax message, a browser input and an image and wherein the free form input further comprises information related to one or more items, at least one of a shipping address, and payment details;
• a shopping cart configured to present a plurality of items specified by the shopper for shopper purchase, wherein the presented items are determined from the unstructured shopping request provided via the natural language input element;
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• at least one shopping interactive option configured to be selected by a user, wherein a selection of the shopping interactive option results in at least one of a change in the items presented in the shopping cart and a finalization of an e-commerce transaction involving a purchase of the items presented in the shopping cart.