Such an ordering model can be problematic for a couple of reasons.
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If a purchaser is ordering only one item, then the overhead of confirming the various steps of the ordering process and waiting for, viewing, and updating the purchaser-specific order information can be much more than the overhead of selecting the item itself.
This overhead makes the purchase of a single item cumbersome.
Also, with such an ordering model, each time an order is placed sensitive information is transmitted over the Internet.
Each time the sensitive information is transmitted over the Internet, it is susceptible to being intercepted and decrypted.
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method and system for ordering an item from a client system.
The client system is provided with an identifier that identifies a customer.
The client system displays information that identifies the item and displays an indication of an action (e.g., a single action such as clicking a mouse button) that a purchaser is to perform to order the identified item.
In response to the indicated action being performed, the client system sends to a server system the provided identifier and a request to order the identified item.
The server system uses the identifier to identify additional information needed to generate an order for the item and then generates the order.
The server system receives and stores the additional information for customers using various computer systems so that the server system can generate such orders.
The server system stores the received additional information in association with an identifier of the customer and provides the identifier to the client system.
When requested by the client system, the server system provides information describing the item to the requesting client system.
When the server system receives a request from a client system, the server system combines the additional information stored in association with the identifier included in the request to effect the ordering of the item.
The invention is a notepad computer with a page display region displaying a page of a document on which a user can write using a pen or stylus type writing tool.
Associated with the page is an interface that can be used with the pen.
The interface includes a core task tool region adjacent to the page where tool icons are partially visible until the pen is brought near one of the icons.
The tool icon becomes fully visible when the pen is within the region of the icon.
The tool when activated can pop-up a radial pop-up menu located at an edge of the document where all the menu choices are located in a semi-circle away from the edge so that the user's hand while holding the pen and making a selection does not block the choices.
A page flipping tool is located in a corner of the page and is an explicit two-stroke menu allowing selection of a next or previous page.
A page scrolling tool is located along an edge of the page, the scrolling tool when activated is an implicit button allowing scrolling in one implied direction.
The interface also includes a stack region adjacent to said page display region having one or more stack icons each representing a stack of documents.
The icon is also an explicit two-stroke radial pop-up menu having forward and backward choices for selecting documents in the stack and a stack document list display displaying a list of documents in the stack when the stack icon is touched by an input pen.
The interface also includes a typing tool overlaying a portion of the page and including a writing zone where a user handwrites strokes and, a page zone comprising part of the page where typed text corresponding to the handwritten strokes is displayed as the handwriting occurs.
The present invention is directed to a notepad or notebook computer interface that facilitates input via a pen and, more particularly, to a system that provides interface elements particularly suitable for pen-based input to, and interaction with, electronic documents.
Making electronic information as handy as paper requires an interaction model which is somewhat different than conventional systems.
Documents, the primary form in which people obtain and produce information, are most familiar and manipulable in the form of paper pages.
What is needed is a notepad or notebook computer based system that allows the easy manipulation of document pages.
Marking on documents directly, with a pen, provides the most leverage of human motor skills for adding to and interacting with documents.
What is needed is a pen based method of marking on and interacting with documents within a notepad or notebook computer.
