Appeal No. 2003-0427 Application No. 09/808,950 Claim 15 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows: 15. A cyber mall system for performing an agency selling of goods, comprising: means for receiving cyber shop definition information including goods information including attributes of goods to be offered in a plurality of cyber shops in a cyber shop mall, layout information concerning a display layout of said goods for each of the cyber shops, and cyber shop identifying information representing identification information of the cyber shops in the cyber shop mall; means for correlating said goods information, said layout information and said cyber shop identifying information of said received cyber shop definition information, and holding the correlated information; means for generating a web page, in response to an access request for information concerning one of said cyber shops, for displaying said goods on the basis of said goods information and said layout information corresponding to cyber shop identification information of said requested one of said cyber shops; and means for outputting the generated web page for the offered goods. The references relied on by the examiner are: eShop Technology Overview, Internet address: <http://www.eshop.com/corp/technology.html>, dated Jan. 1, 1996. eShop In The News, Recent Press Releases, Internet address: <http://www.eshop.com/corp/press.html>, dated Jan. 1, 1996, with press releases dated Nov. 7, 1995, Dec. 7, 1995 and Jan. 23, 1996 discussed therein. eShop Technology Merchant Manual, February 21, 1996. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007