NEW MEDIA ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (NMEC) SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A system and method to conduct electronic commerce not necessarily over the Internet has a plurality of individual consumers, network groups of consumers, and a server (Fig. 1) (22, 34). The consumers receive a distributed computer-readable medium having: a pre-stored interactive database of product information of a plurality of products; (Fig. 2) (22, 52) and predetermined software for performing graphic-user-interface-based review, selection, and order processing by a respective consumer of selected products from the pre-stored interactive database to generate the pre-stored order stored in the respective computer of the respective consumer (Fig. 33). The predetermined software is installable on a computer associated with a respective consumer. The predetermined software is installable on a computer associated with a respective consumer, with the predetermined software isolated from and not in constant communication with the Internet. The server includes a communications module with electronic communication connections to a computer of a consumer and receiving the pre-stored order therefrom, and an order-processing module for processing the transmitted pre-stored order for product fulfillment.