I'm not sure if you're being deliberately hyperbolic, but I think your example is an extreme oversimplification.
More like "Joe Bob in Nowhereville, KY has this item in his wishlist. He looked at it three times in the past three days, and twice today. The last time he exhibited this pattern he bought it within two days, as have 78% of the people in this geographical region who have exhibited similar patterns. Let's ship to a local transit in prep for his order."
Actually really cool - and at least based on the summary (can't view the linked doc b/c of missing plugin of some kind) it's a business method patent as opposed to a software patent.
More like "Joe Bob in Nowhereville, KY has this item in his wishlist. He looked at it three times in the past three days, and twice today. The last time he exhibited this pattern he bought it within two days, as have 78% of the people in this geographical region who have exhibited similar patterns. Let's ship to a local transit in prep for his order."
Actually really cool - and at least based on the summary (can't view the linked doc b/c of missing plugin of some kind) it's a business method patent as opposed to a software patent.