US Patent Issued to zig-zag on Nov. 11 for "Assistance method for assisting in provision of EC abroad, and program or assistance server for assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,775, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to zig-zag Inc. (Tokyo).

"Assistance method for assisting in provision of EC abroad, and program or assistance server for assistance method" was invented by Kazuyoshi Nakazato (Shibuya-ku, Japan) and Hisashi Arakaki (Shibuya-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for assisting provision of EC abroad by determining a country of a user who accessed a first webpage of an EC site, the first webpage associated with a certain article, and causing a button or a banner to be displayed for forwarding a web-browser of a user terminal of the user from the first webpage to a second webp...