Appeal No. 1997-1354
Application No. 08/432,610
to carry on a dialog using the HTTP protocol because there is
no history of previous transactions. Most people attempting
to sell products using the World-Wide Web put up with the
limitations of HTTP and require the user to enter a name,
address, and credit card number for every item bought. The
current invention extends the capabilities of the HTTP
protocol to allow a user to identify himself and create a
session, he can then conduct transactions during that session
without identifying himself again.
Representative independent claims 1 is reproduced as
follows:
1. A method for ordering goods or services from
a store on the world wide web where said store is
implemented using a server computer having:
(a) the capability of being accessed by a
plurality of users each said user having a
browser;
(b) a plurality of user profile records, one or more
unprotected pages, and one or more protected pages;
(c) a unique first username associated with each
said profile record;
(d) a first password associated with each profile
record; and
(e) the capability of at least one of said users
accessing at least one of said unprotected
pages without supplying a user-name or password;
said method of associating one of said users with one of
said profile records comprising:
(i) allowing said user to attempt to access one of
said protected pages using the http GET method;
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