Abstract: A distributed point of sale can be accessed via any suitable tag-based document, such as a Web page, a blog, a piece of e-mail, or even an advertisement. Either a snippet of text or a graphical element, such as a button, can be selected by a buyer to cause a representation of the distributed point of sale to appear without causing a context of the tag-based document to change or navigate the buyer away from the tag-based document.
Abstract: A server-based process, which includes a process whose execution is primarily on a shared remote computer such as a Web server or remote database, allows ring tones to be created and images to be edited for use on telephonic mobile devices. A tag that inhibits caching is attached to the end of messages so as to tunnel through telecommunication equipment and a concurrent, asynchronous process architecture is used to increase robustness of the uploading, editing, and converting services.