| Interesting question. It seems pretty broad. The meat (claim 1): ..displaying information identifying the item; and 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 .. ..fulfilling the generated order to complete purchase of the item whereby the item is ordered without using a shopping cart ordering model. snippets from claims 2 - 26 2 The method of claim 1 wherein the displaying of information includes displaying information indicating the single action. 3-4 The method of claim 1 wherein the single action is clicking a button / is speaking of a sound 17-22 . The method of claim 11 wherein the single action is: - clicking a mouse button when a cursor is positioned over a predefined area of the displayed information - a sound generated by a user - selection using a television remote control. - is depressing of a key on a key pad. - selecting using a pointing device. - selection of a displayed indication
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazonpatent.html I'm not a lawyer and don't know anything about patents. What I thought I knew seems to be proven wrong by the existence of this patent. But, it looks like "slide to buy" is covered in the last one. If someone wants a topic to research and blog about, how about a round up of one-click patent workarounds that have been implemented. Especially if these have been reviewed by lawyers or implemented in response to litigation threats. |