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BountyQuest.com: $10k “Bounty” Posted to Locate Prior Art on Amazon’s “One Click Shopping” Patent

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 19, 2000

“One Click Shopping”

“A system for allowing clients to order items on the Internet
with a single button click.”

“A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item
via the Internet, wherein a server receives a request to purchase
an identified item and combines the request with stored information
about the client, so that an order can be effected by selection of
the order button. Further information can be found in the
specification of the single-click patent, U.S. patent no.
5.960,411.”

“Requirements to Match
Prior to 9/28/1997

  • a method of placing an order for an item
  • displaying information identifying the item under control of a
    client system
  • in response to only a single action being performed, sending a
    request to order the item along with an identifier of a purchaser
    of the item to a server system, also under control of a client
    system
    …”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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