Abstract: A method, apparatus and system of method and system of pointer region capture to form a registry independent of a merchant site is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method a registry module, includes determining an item boundary surrounding a current location of a pointer based on a merchant site mapping table and a markup language characteristic of the merchant site, extracting an item information from within the item boundary and communicating the item information to a registry of a central database. In addition, the method may further include determining that a link to a details data associated with an item defined through the item information is adjacent to the pointer in an area defined by the item boundary, automatically extracting the details data from the link and communicating the details data by and the item information to the registry of the central database.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for operating an internet accessible multi-merchant universal compilation of items, adding items to this compilation and purchasing items there from. The compilation if items can either be a gift registry or a shopping list. The present invention enables addition of product items from the web site of any online retailer to an existing universal compilation of items created in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention through transmission of the selected product and identifying information associated with the product to the gift registry server. Such identifying information may include the name of the product, sale price of the product, and name of the manufacturer of the product. The present invention relates to an internet accessible multi-merchant universal gift registry or shopping list that has the look and feel of a catalog.

Abstract: The invention relates to electronic commerce and specifically to a method of adding desired product from various online stores to a single online third-party universal product registry used to provide services such as online gift registries, wish lists and online product catalogs. Prevalent techniques to add product information from any online store to a single registry has following deficiencies: 1. Precise information of the product e.g. image, price, and description cannot be captured. 2. To get this precise information, it requires software-programming integration with every online store making it impractical. This also necessitates the use of prime real estate on every merchant store, which they may not offer. The invention solves these deficiencies with a small software that works in conjunction with prevalent Internet Browsers by providing a simple one-click interface on the product image to record the image, description and price of the product to a single registry.