Appeal 2007-3540
Application 09/946,616
1 to buyers that the seller accepts Amazon.com Payments, and that such
2 payments can optionally be made using the site's 1-Click service
3 (Bogosian, col. 5, ll. 17-27).
4 14. A preferred embodiment of the 1-Click service is set forth in U.S. Pat.
5 No. 5,960,411, which is incorporated into Bogosian by reference
6 (Bogosian, col. 5, ll. 27-29).
7 15. Once a buyer in Bogosian selects an item for purchase or wins an
8 auction for the item, the transaction facility obtains the buyer's credit
9 card and shipping information (Bogosian, col. 5, ll. 41-44).
10 16. If Bogosian’s buyer has set up and enabled 1-Click settings, the credit
11 card and shipping information are extracted automatically from such
12 settings; otherwise, the buyer is preferably prompted to specify the
13 information (Bogosian, col. 5, ll. 44-47).
14 17. Bogosian’s transaction facility then charges the buyer's credit card and
15 calculates a commission to be retained by the web site operator. In
16 addition, the transaction facility forwards the transaction information to
17 the electronic fund transfer application, which deposits the purchase
18 price amount (minus the commission) into the seller's bank checking
19 account. Finally, the transaction facility instructs the seller by email to
20 ship the product to the buyer (Bogosian, col. 5, ll. 47-55).
21 18. Bogosian’s sellers who advertise and sell products via online auctions
22 or online flea markets typically do not have a preexisting relationship
23 with those who purchase their products. As such, a seller generally will
24 not ship the purchased product until he or she has received payment in
25 full. Once the host web site has stored the bank routing number and
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