SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING COMMERCIAL INFORMATION

摘要

Disclosed is commercial-information sharing system in which a vendor provides a shopping device (106) to a customer (102). When the shopping device (106) presents commercial information to the customer (102) that the customer (102) finds interesting, the customer (102) may choose to share the commercial information. The information is sent (200) from the vendor's shopping device (106) to a personal communications device (104) of the customer (102). The customer (102) then uses his personal communications device (104) to share (208) the information. The vendor may send (202) tracking information along with the commercial information. If someone (114) is interested in the commercial information shared by the original customer (102) and goes to the vendor to, for example, redeem (306) a coupon, the tracking information provides the vendor with important marketing data. The original customer (102) may also share content (204) that he generates and then associates with the commercial information.