Retail method over a wide area network

US5899980A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Trivnet Ltd. · IL

Inventors

• Saar Wilf · Jerusalem, IL
• Guy Ruvio · Elad, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 11, 1997
• Grant date: May 4, 1999
• Expiry date: Aug 11, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F9/002
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A retail method over a wide area network. The wide area network includes a point of sale computer station, a network service provider server operated by a network service provider, a customer computer station used by a customer and connected to the wide area network through the network service provider server, and a transaction server having access to identification information of the network service provider and the point of sale computer station. The method includes the steps of connecting the customer computer station to the point of sale computer station, purchasing goods from the point of sale computer station by the customer, validation of the purchasing by the transaction server and the network service provider server, 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 a transaction sum and billing by the transaction server an account of the network service provider server 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 c…