A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet. The order is placed by a purchaser at a client system and received by a server system. The server system receives purchaser information including identification of the purchaser, payment information, and shipment information from the client system. The server system then assigns a client identifier to the client system and associates the assigned client identifier with the received purchaser information. The server system sends to the client system the assigned client identifier and an HTML document identifying the item and including an order button. The client system receives and stores the assigned client identifier and receives and displays the HTML document. In response to the selection of the order button, the client system sends to the server system a request to purchase the identified item. The server system receives the request and combines the purchaser information associated with the client identifier of the client system to generate an order to purchase the item in accordance with the billing and shipment information whereby the purchaser effects the ordering of the product by selection of the order button.

Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network

The present embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatuses for use in managing content on at least a local network. Some embodiments provide a method for use in managing content that detects there is a change to content on a local network, determines whether the change is additional content on a first client device, determines whether the additional content can be identified, determines whether there is a predictive distribution scheme when the additional content is identified, distributes the additional content over the local network according the predictive distribution scheme when a predictive distribution scheme applies to the additional content, determines whether a new predictive distribution scheme can be defined when a predictive distribution scheme does not apply to the additional content, and saving the new predictive distribution scheme when a new predictive scheme can be defined.

Methods and systems for use in network management of content

Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's computer-based user station. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only for music that they choose to have recorded for unlimited playback, for example, by a “CD burner”. An antipiracy “ID tag” is woven into the recorded music so that any illegal copies therefrom may be traced to the purchase transaction. Music is transmitted on a fixed schedule or through an active scheduling process that monitors music requests from all or a subset of satellite receivers and adjust scheduling according to demand for various CD's. Receivers store selections that are likely to be preferred by a specific customer. In those instances where weather conditions, motion atmospheric layers or dish obstructions result in data loss, the system downloads the next transmission of the requested CD and uses both transmissions to produce a “good copy”. In conjunction with the blanket transmission of more popular music, an automated CD manufacturing facility may be provided to manufacture CD's that are not frequently requested and distribute them by ground transportation.

Music distribution systems

In an e-commerce risk screening system (900), transaction information is applied to multiple fraud risk models (915, 916, 918, 920) that produce raw scores, which are transformed with sigmoidal transform functions (910) to produce optimized likelihood of fraud risk estimates. Such estimates are combined using fusion proportions, producing a single point risk estimate, which is transformed with a sigmoidal function (910) to produce an optimized single point risk estimate.

Method and apparatus for evaluating fraud risk in an electronic commerce transaction

A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.

System and method for emergency notification content delivery

A retail method over a wide area network. The wide area network includes a point of sale computer station (41), a network service provider server (31, 32, ..., 33) operated by a network service provider (31, ..., 33), a customer computer station (51, 52, ..., 72) used by a customer and connected to the wide area network through the network service provider server (31, 32, ..., 33), and a transaction server (20) having access to identification information of the network service provider (31, ..., 33) and the point of sale computer station (41, ..., 43). The method includes the steps of connecting the customer computer station (51, ..., 72) to the point of sale computer station (41, ..., 43), purchasing goods from the point of sale computer station (41, ..., 43) by the customer, validation of the purchasing by the transaction server (20) and the network service provider server (31, ..., 33), charging the customer for the purchase. The step of charging includes a transaction including the steps of billing an account of the customer by the network service provider server (31, ..., 33) a transaction sum and billing by the transaction server (20) an account of the network service provider server (31, ..., 33) the transaction sum. The retail method also includes supplying the goods to the customer and remitting a portion of the transaction sum to a vendor operating the point of sale computer station (41, ..., 43).

A retail method over a wide area network

L'invention concerne un procede permettant des activites de detail sur un reseau longue distance, lequel comprend un poste informatique point de vente (41), un serveur de fournisseur de service de reseau (31, 32, ..., 33) exploite par un fournisseur de service de reseau (31 ..., 33), un poste informatique client (51, 52, ..., 72) utilise par un client et connecte au reseau longue distance par l'intermediaire du fournisseur de service de reseau (31, 32, ..., 33), et un serveur de transactions (20) ayant acces aux informations d'identification du fournisseur de service de reseau (31, ..., 33) et au poste informatique point de vente (41, ..., 43). Ledit procede consiste a connecter le poste informatique client (51, ..., 72) au poste informatique a point de vente (41, ..., 43), a acheter des marchandises depuis le poste informatique point de vente (41, ..., 43), le serveur de transaction (20) du serveur du fournisseur de service de reseau (31, ..., 33) validant l'achat, et a debiter le client pour le montant de l'achat. La phase de debit consiste en une transaction dans laquelle un compte du client est debite du montant de la transaction au moyen du serveur du fournisseur de service de reseau (31, ..., 33) et dans laquelle le montant de la transaction est credite sur un compte du serveur du fournisseur de service de reseau (31, ..., 33) au moyen du serveur de transaction (20). Le procede de detail consiste egalement a fournir les marchandises au client et a remettre une partie du montant de la transaction a un vendeur exploitant le poste informatique point de vente (41, ..., 43).

Guy Ruvio

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A retail method over a wide area network

Procede permettant des activites de detail sur un reseau longue distance

Verkaufsverfahren über ein weiträumiges netzwerk