Blackbox describes an unbiased match engine which preserves the identity of all the parties involved until an anonymity match and mutual interests or deal terms match their individual needs. One match engine system embodiment is known as RoboNegotiator which acts as a third-party negotiator, mediator, broker, introducer and anonymous facilitator operating independently without having business interest with either party and without letting involved parties game the system. A partial compare enables a negotiation for a remaining unmatched data concurrently, in one of an unbiased automated, semi-automated and non-automated modes. The entity requesting matching services will never be sure if there is any matching interest or if all terms and conditions are really met or not. There is no risk of identity exposure if there is no mutual interest or deal and hence the disclosed match engine will also preserve confidentiality of interest, deal terms and dreams.

A method to generate revenue from supplied content is provided. Content is provided to a consumer via a network by providing a content service that allows the consumer to select and retrieve content as a package together with a clearing of the selectable content to an operator used by the consumer to select and retrieve the content via the network. Any content selected by the consumer is supplied directly to the consumer via the operator. The operator is charged for the supplied content.

Embodiments described herein simplify ordering of products from online shops. This may involve an agent server receiving captured contents of a product webpage from a client device and autonomously deriving product information therefrom. Alternatively, the agent service can receive a web address corresponding to a product webpage, and the agent server can visit the product webpage and capture its contents. The agent server then uses the derived product information to autonomously control ordering of the product for the user from an online shop, without requiring that the user have an account with the online shop, without requiring that the user enter personal and payment information in a check-out webpage of the online shop, without requiring that the user select a buy or shopping cart button associated with the online shop, and without requiring the online shop utilize an API to enable the agent server to interact with the online shop.

It is disclosed to provide, to a first apparatus associated with a sender of a shipment, first information that can be caused, by the first apparatus or the sender, to become associated with the shipment and thus obtainable by a second apparatus associated with an entity that is involved in a process of delivering the shipment according to delivery-related information. It is further disclosed to provide, to the second apparatus, second information, wherein the second information is either third information that is a first representation of the delivery-related information selected based on the first information, or is fourth information that is useable for deriving, from the first information, a first representation of the delivery-related information. The second information is neither provided to the first apparatus nor to the sender.

A system is configured to receive a network resource request from a user device configured with a browsing application, wherein the request includes identification data associated with the user device. The system transmits, to a network resource provider, a request for the network resource, wherein the request transmitted to the network resource provider excludes identification data included in the request received from the user device. The system receives from the network resource provider a response, including a document comprising a field configured to receive payment information for an item purchase. The system receives from the browsing application an indication that an anonymous payment instrument, associated with a first entity different than the user, is to be used to purchase a first item at a first price. The system causes information regarding the anonymous payment instrument to be provided to the network resource provider.

As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for synthesizing user transactional data for de-identifying sensitive information. In use, transactional data of a plurality of users is identified. Additionally, the plurality of users are clustered based on the transactional data, to form groups of users having transactional data representing similar transactional behavior. Further, synthesized transactional data is generated for the users in each group by: identifying a subset of the transactional data that corresponds to the users in each group, shuffling the transactional data in the subset across the users in each group, and perturbing portions of the shuffled transactional data.

Methods and systems for securely transferring and merging an electronic shopping cart curated by an affiliate online service for purchase on a retailer online service is disclosed. The retailer online service provides an anonymous token to the affiliate online service that allows the affiliate online service to curate an anonymous electronic shopping cart for a user that does not include any identifying information that links the user to a guest account of the retailer online service. When the user is redirected from the affiliate online service to the retailer online service, the anonymous token is validated. Upon validation of the anonymous token, the retailer online service obtains identifying information linking the user to the guest account of the retailer online service and obtain a pre-existing electronic shopping cart linked to the guest account. The retailer online service then merges the anonymous electronic shopping cart with the pre-existing electronic shopping cart.

A method for merchant-side tracking of customer selections includes receiving, via a user list script on a merchant webpage, a user selection of a product representation displayed on a UI of a user device. The method includes updating a user list with the user selection, the user list associated with a generic user representation. The method includes determining, based on a type of identifier associated with a user of the user device, to use a generic user representation with the user list. The method includes selecting, based on the generic user representation, an anonymous user flow type for tracking the user as an anonymous user of the merchant webpage. The anonymous user flow type associates the user device with the user list independently of associating the user with the merchant.

The invention relates to a method for enabling order handling via the Internet, wherein the method is performed in a computer system comprising at least a client, an ordering server and an agent server connected to the Internet, each of the client, the ordering server and the agent server comprising at least one processor and a memory storing one or more programs for execution by the at least one processor. The invention discloses a method comprising: capturing at least a part of the contents of a website retrieved by a web browser on the client from the ordering server; transferring the captured contents to the agent server; deriving object information from the captured contents on the agent server to identify an object to be ordered; controlling the ordering server by the agent server to order the object.

A method and apparatus for a commerce platform coordinating a purchase of a product sold by a merchant system through a third party application are described. The method may include receiving a notification from the third party application requesting to purchase a product from within the third party application, wherein the notification comprises an identifier for the product and an identifier for the merchant system that sells the product. The method may also include a product checkout interface having an appearance consistent with an appearance of a user interface of the third party application, and transmitting the product checkout interface generated by the commerce platform to a user device executing the third party application causing the third party application to render the product checkout interface within at least a portion of the user interface of the third party application.