SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING ON-SITE ELECTRONIC PURCHASING USING USER-OPERATED TERMINALS

摘要

A system that provides interactive multimedia based electronic purchasing services to a group of concurrent customers in a commercial site via user operated wired and wireless transaction terminals, i.e., commercial Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). The disclosed system is comprised of a multiple-computer-based server array and a number of multi-link commercial PDAs. The invention further employs a number of unique methods for implementing interactive advertising-based, interactive payment-based, as well as customized content-based electronic purchasing services. Moreover, the invention can accommodate a plurality of concurrent customers ranging from a few to thousands, using multi-link-based workgroup server arrays that can deliver mission-critical highly-available and scaleable on-demand interactive multimedia-based electronic purchasing services in a commercial site.