Shipping address population using online address book
AssigneePanderi Technology Services L.L.C.
InventorEvan John Kaye
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Abstract
A method for automatically generating a custom name list for use in an order form which can be submitted to an Internet shopping site to complete an order. The method utilizes address book data, stored primarily online utilizing a third party service. In one method according to the invention, names and addresses are read from an address book database and incorporated into a form which enables the user to easily select recipients for one or more gifts.
Claims19
A method for facilitating purchases of items comprising:
- retrieving at least a set of names of potential item recipients from an address book resident on a third party server;
- causing to be displayed at a client station a selection form containing the set of names along with one or more items available through a host server, the selection form enabling interaction, via selectable areas, effective to associate the one or more items available through a host server with at least one or more names in the set of names of potential item recipients;
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- causing to be submitted, to the host server, associations between the one or more items available through a host server and the at least one or more names in the set of names of potential item recipients.
One or more hardware components storing instructions which, responsive to execution by a computing device, are configured to cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- causing to be displayed a selection form at a client station, the selection form containing (1) a set of names of potential item recipients retrieved from an address book resident on a third party server and (2) one or more items available through a host server, the selection form enabling interaction, via selectable areas, effective to associate the one or more items available through a host server with at least one or more names in the set of names of potential item recipients;
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- causing to be submitted, to the host server, associations between the one or more items available through a host server and the at least one or more names in the set of names of potential item recipients.
A method for facilitating purchases of items comprising:
- receiving a set of names of potential item recipients retrieved from an address book resident on a third party server;
- displaying, at a client station, a selection form wherein the selection form includes at least one name in the set of names of potential item recipients from the address book on the third party server combined with one or more items that are available through a host server;
- enabling interaction with the selection form, via selectable areas, effective to associate the one or more items available through a host server with at least one or more names in a set of names of potential item recipients displayed in the selection form;
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- causing to be submitted, to the host server, associations between the one or more items available through a host server and the at least one or more names in the set of names of potential item recipients.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.