CONTEXTUAL PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION ABOUT RELATED ORDERS DURING BROWSING OF AN ELECTRONIC CATALOG

摘要

An online store system, which may be implemented as a web site or another ty pe of interactive system, presents context-sensitive information (212) to customers about their prior orders during browsing of an electronic catalog of products. In one embodiment, when a customer accesses a detail page (220) fo r a particular product, the detail page (220) is supplemented with information (212), such as status information, about a related order placed by the customer. The related order may be an order for the product represented in t he detail page (220) or may be for a treated product. Information about related orders may additionally or alternatively be added to other types of pages, such as product category pages (220) and shopping cart part pages.