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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2007

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2000
Applicant:

Darshatkumar Shah, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventor:

Darshatkumar Shah, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system which facilitates electronic shopping, which includes a graphical image component residing on a user interface; and a shopping basket component associated with the graphical image component. The shopping basket component provides drag and drop capabilities such that a user can drag and drop representations of identified items from a plurality of sources using a computer pointer into the graphical image and descriptions of the items will be retained by the shopping basket component. The system allows for a user to concurrently effect multiple transactions with disparate items respectively associated a plurality of sources.


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