Inventor

Jeffrey P. Bezos

Patents indexed

Year range

1999

Associated with

Amazon com Inc

Years active

1999

Total patents

Most recent

1999

Frequent collaborator

Peri Hartman

Domains

ecommercesoftwaretelecommunicationsconsumer_electronics

Activity by decade

1990s

Patents

US 5960411·1999·Amazon com Inc

How Amazon's One-Click Online Ordering System Works

Amazon's 1997 patent describes a method for buying an item online with just one click, by using previously stored customer and payment information, bypassing the traditional multi-step shopping cart process.