Consumer oriented services system and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8694428
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11617634

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A method and computer program product for maintaining, on a first computing device, consumer identification and billing information concerning a user. A directory of ecommerce merchants is maintained on a second computing device. The first computing device and the second computing device are interfaced via a distributed computing network. The user is enabled to select an ecommerce merchant defined within the directory of ecommerce merchants. The order of goods/services from the selected ecommerce merchant to the user using the consumer identification and billing information maintained on the first computing device is facilitated.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Brown, David Lawrence Colorado Springs, US 3 28

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