U.S. Patent No. 10,109,003 B1 (‘003), issued on October 23, 2018, for “Method, Medium, and System for Enhancing Privacy.” The inventors are Jon Jenkins of San Francisco, and Catherine Cissy Lee of Mountain View, California. The applicant and assignee is Pinterest, Inc., of San Francisco, California, the image and pictorial social media company. The title is not a precise description of the invention. The ‘003 specification discloses systems and methods for “facilitation of purchase of objects from merchants.” The process is set in, presumably, Pinterest’s social media environment, and, as described, will facilitate sale of an “object” that the user has “selected” from an organized “set” of objects. The ‘003 claims are directed to these systems and methods, namely, through its object management service, identify the object to be purchased, which will forward the user to the merchant’s website for purchase. Related computer-implemented method claims and computer medium claims are also recited.
Figure 1 illustrates the system and method of this invention:
The Cooperative Patent Classification is G06Q (data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial, supervisory or forecasting purposes, namely, e-commerce shopping, namely, buying, selling, or leasing transactions, e.g., purchase orders or compilations (30/0633)).
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