Claim 1 is illustrative: A method for managing an electronic commerce(e-commerce) shopping cart relating to communication between a shopper and a server over a communication network, said method comprising the steps of: determining by the server whether a shopping command of the shopper has changed an attribute of a primary item in the shopping cart; after the server has determined that the shopping command has changed the attribute of the primary item in the shopping cart, identifying by the server a secondary item in the shopping cart linked to the primary item; and changing by the server a corresponding attribute of the secondary item in response to the change in the attribute of the primary item. THE REFERENCES Henson 6,167,383 Dec. 26, 2000 Chandramohan et al. 6,711,619 Mar. 23, 2004 (Chandramohan) (filed Dec. 15, 1999) THE REJECTIONS The claims stand rejected as follows: claims 1-4, 14-22 and 24-28 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as anticipated by Henson, and claims 13 and 23 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Henson in view of Chandramohan. OPINION 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007