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20110016014 | Online e-commerce and networking system with user-participated advertisements, joint online purchasing and dynamic user interactions - Methods and systems are provided for facilitating user joint purchasing and user-participated online advertisements, including: providing means for a user to request joint purchasing of products and services online; subtracting sponsoring amount provided by users' sponsors from the listed prices of products and services; dividing the cost of products and services among users participated in joint purchasing; receiving separate payments from such users; delivering products and services based on system configurations and user joint purchasing instructions; integrating existing third party online advertisements with user incentives; and enabling users to create and modify online advertisements for entities and individuals, wherein said advertisements can be customized or designed by said users. Such methods and systems further include: providing group and role-based security for users; providing means for external websites to embed unique functions of present invention, such as user joint purchasing, user-participated online advertisements, and the like; providing means to enable users to arrange others' assets; providing means for users to participant in various online events to foster better relationships; providing means for users to pool funds for charity organizations or individuals; providing means for users to centrally manage multiple accounts of their external websites; and providing means for users to acquire free assets. | 01-20-2011 |
20110093353 | System and Method for Syndicating Market Offers for Intellectual Property - A syndication server is in communication with the portal software and receives the market offer, the syndication server aggregates a number of market offers to create a syndication document. A subscriber server receives the syndication document and publishes an indication that the particular intellectual property is associated with the market offer. If a prospect clicks on the indication, the prospect is directed to a sellers website. The syndication server receives a message that the prospect has clicked on the indication and uses this information to prepare reports and pay the subscriber server's owner a click fee. Thus providing the subscriber server an incentive to publish the market offers. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093354 | Electronic transactions based on deal forms - In the preferred computer system, the user is provided with a separate Internet-accessible entity referred to here as the “personal page.” A personal page, preferably, includes memory for storing information related to the user. For example, on his/her personal page the user indicates what he/she wishes to purchase, possibly along with other criteria associated with the purchase, such as, for example, a time that the purchase should take The user is provided with the ability to create personalized bidding rules that vendors that offer goods and services must respect. Vendors have the ability to specify similar criteria, which describe the goods and/or services they offer. Vendors can indicate, for example, the prices of their goods, times and places that their services are available, etc. Preferably, these specifications, called “vendor scripts,” are embodied in active software/data entities (agents) that traverse sites on the Internet visiting sites hosting users' personal pages. Thus, preferably, vendor software/data agents (comprising vendor scripts) are the mobile, active elements in the system and purchasing requirements are stationary and more passive in comparison. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093355 | BUYER-DRIVEN PURCHASING LOYALTY SYSTEM AND METHOD USING AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK - Disclosed is a method and system for effectuating a buyer-driven and buyer-executed commerce system. The system allows prospective buyers and sellers of goods and services to anonymously exchange conditional Requests For Bids and Conditional Sales Offers based on the buyer's guaranteed ‘purchasing loyalty’ for a self-defined minimum quantity of goods or services, and/or quality of goods of services and/or the length of time or price to which the buyer would agree to be bound or any combination of those condition's. That buyer guarantee permits a seller to easily pre-determine their offers based on the calculated value of ‘capturing’ that buyer's ‘guaranteed purchasing loyalty’. In a preferred embodiment, the method and system of the present invention includes a controller which receives Requests For Bids from prospective buyers and also receives, stores and displays to prospective buyers, bindable sales proposals from a multitude of prospective sellers. Potential buyers are therefore protected from bidding too much and being bound by the bid before having an opportunity to see what the marketplace has to offer. Further, because only the buyer is permitted to bind a seller, the buyer may submit an RFB more than once, changing any or all of the condition's to which he would agree to be bound in order to explore multiple offers from sellers and to better understand how changing one or more of the conditions affects the offers from the sellers. | 04-21-2011 |
20110112922 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSISTING CONSUMERS IN NEGOTIATING PURCHASES WITH A PLURALITY OF SELLERS - Systems and methods for assisting a consumer in negotiating with a plurality of sellers for the purchase of products and/or services are provided. A consumer provides search criteria for generating a list of potential sellers to participate in the negotiations. From this list, the consumer selects a plurality of sellers to receive invitations to participate in the negotiations. Invitations are then sent to each of the sellers selected by the consumer inviting each of the sellers to participate in the negotiations. Each of the sellers may opt-in or opt-out of the negotiations. Once all sellers have opted-in or opted-out, either directly or indirectly, the negotiations with the sellers that have opted-in begin. During a pre-determined time period, each of the participating sellers may update quotes for the purchase of the product. At the end of the time period, the consumer may select the winning seller and complete the transaction. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119145 | GROUP CONTENT ON DEMAND ACCESS CONTROL - Digital content on demand (CoD) is provided under a group purchase option that permits separately located users to receive access on demand to a desired content with group-related benefits including discounted price discount or synchronized viewing. | 05-19-2011 |
20110131110 | Transparent Commodity Trading Networks and Methods of Facilitating Transactions Among Buyers and Sellers of Products and Services - A transparent commodity trading network facilitates transactions among parties. A plurality of mobile communications devices are each configured to broadcast product/service needs and/or product/service offerings of a party associated with the respective mobile communications device. Each mobile communications device is configured to receive product/service needs and/or product/service offerings broadcast by other mobile communications devices when respective mobile communications devices pass within a predetermined distance of each other. Each mobile communications device is configured to identify when a product/service need or product/service offering broadcast by another mobile communications device matches a corresponding product/service offering or broadcast product/service need broadcast by the respective mobile communications device. A transaction service that is accessible by each mobile communications device is configured to allow two parties that have a matching broadcast product/service need and offering to identify and communicate with each other. | 06-02-2011 |
20110166949 | ARTICLE TRADING PROCESS - Articles such as compact discs are traded among a plurality of members who are registered in a common community. Each member has an account including a trading credit balance and a mailing address. A user interface is provided that allows a member to enter articles that the member owns and is willing to trade and articles that the member wants to own. The user interface also receives article trading instruction messages. An administration computer hosts the plurality of members and facilitates article trades among the members. The administration computer identifies matches between owned and wanted articles. For each identified match, an article trading instruction message is sent to the article owner requesting that the article owner mail the owned article to the mailing address of the member who wants to own the article. If the member sends the article, a trading credit is posted to the member's account and a trading debit and a monetary charge is posted to the member's account who will be receiving the article. Each traded article has the same trading credit. A priority algorithm is used to select the member who will receive the article if there is more than one member who wants an article that another member owns and is willing to trade. The priority algorithm is based in part on a member score that is a function of the relative value of the articles that a member owns and sends to another member compared to the relative value of the articles that the member wants and receives from another member, the relative value of the articles being determined by a demand for the article compared to a supply for the article among the members. A portion of the monetary charge is placed in a pool for distribution to the content creator of the article. | 07-07-2011 |
20110178891 | IN-EVENT SEAT EXCHANGE - A method for an in-event ticket exchange that occurs inside the ticked event venue after the original ticket holders have gained entry to the venue is provided. The method comprises reselling or exchanging event tickets on a tertiary market within the event venue after the tickets are used to gain admission to the event but while the tickets still retain a valid right to a seating/viewing location where an electronically accessible database connects sellers to buyers at the event who wish to upgrade their seating/viewing location. | 07-21-2011 |
20110202420 | Innovation Brokerage - A method for regulating exchanges between a buyer and a seller comprises the steps of: identifying a problem to be solved; submitting the problem to a broker; preparing a deal concerning the problem to be submitted to potential sellers of at least one solution to the problem; launching the deal to the potential sellers; submitting at least one solution within a particular time period by the potential sellers; filing intellectual property protection to each solution; submitting each solution from each potential seller to a selection panel; analyzing each solution and rating each solution; and communicating each rated solution to a buyer for selection. | 08-18-2011 |
20110208606 | Information Technology Services E-Commerce Arena for Cloud Computing Environments - A system and method for IT services e-commerce arena for cloud computing environments is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of service clients, a request for processing time on a processor. The method also includes receiving, from each of a plurality of service providers, an offer for processing time on a processor operated by each respective service provider. Additionally, the method includes generating a buyer group based on information included in each respective request, wherein the buyer group comprises a selected one or more of the plurality of service clients to receive processing time on a processing resource and selecting one of the plurality of service providers to provide processing time on the processor operated by the selected service provider to the service clients in the buyer group. Further, the method includes initiating a transaction between each of the service clients in the buyer group and the selected service provider. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208607 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCURING GOODS IN AN AUTOMATED MANNER - An automatic system and method optimizes the purchasing of goods and services by a buyer. A request for a quote for goods or services required is received from a buyer. This request is processed and dealers are selected based on the criteria of the buyer and other criteria. The selected dealers are then sent the request for goods and services and quotes are solicited. Quotes from the selected dealers, for the goods or services, are then receivable within a predetermined time period. Thereafter, the received quotes of the providers of the goods or services are ranked. The ranking and the report of the providers are then outputted. | 08-25-2011 |
20110258066 | Method of brokering digital data - A photographer | 10-20-2011 |
20110258067 | ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR INFORMATION AND INTANGIBLE GOODS - A system and methods to enable a plurality of vendors of information to sell that information to a plurality of consumers of information are disclosed. The information may include sales leads, such as sales leads for potential sales of insurance products. The disclosed system may enable a plurality of users to provide standing orders for information, including defining a plurality of parameters or filters. The system applies these parameters to information offered for sale by the vendors, and automatically delivers information that satisfies the parameters. The system may enable the user to define when to purchase information, such that information offered for sale during a time the user cannot use it is not purchased. The disclosed system may therefore provide an online marketplace that enables a plurality of different users to purchase information sold by a plurality of different vendors in an easy and consistent way. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264550 | System for Developing Direct Relationships Between Service Providers and Consumers for the Healthcare and Other Privacy and Security sensitive Industries - A computerized system for developing online relationships between providers of services and people who need the services is described. The system aids providers of services (“Providers”) in developing offerings, contracts, customer bases, marketing programs, and reputations through automated systems and communications via an online internet enabled interface is described. Simultaneously, the system aids consumers of services in evaluating service providers, developing relationships with them, and negotiating mutually agreeable service contracts while controlling privacy. The particular application used to describe the invention is for the healthcare industry but the same hardware, software, processes and systems is designed to be applied to any service industry where security and privacy are concerns. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270699 | MULTIPLE CRITERIA BUYING AND SELLING MODEL - A multiple criteria buying and selling system and method is provided. A seller initially establishes a deal structure for a product, which provides seller defined selling criteria information relating to the purchasing of the product, such as volume per unit price, quality, delivery time and warranty information. A buyer will be able to review a list of deals if the seller's selling criteria matches a buyer defined buying criteria. The deal structure is preferably set up so as to provide buyers with both price and non-price criteria information that the buyer's would consider important in a purchase of the type of product being offered by the seller. The deal structure is electronically made available to potential buyers of the product. For example, the deal structure may be displayed on an Internet site. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270700 | MULTIPLE CRITERIA BUYING AND SELLING MODEL - A multiple criteria buying and selling system and method is provided. A seller initially establishes a deal structure for a product, which provides seller defined selling criteria information relating to the purchasing of the product, such as volume per unit price, quality, delivery time and warranty information. A buyer will be able to review a list of deals if the seller's selling criteria matches a buyer defined buying criteria. The deal structure is preferably set up so as to provide buyers with both price and non-price criteria information that the buyer's would consider important in a purchase of the type of product being offered by the seller. The deal structure is electronically made available to potential buyers of the product. For example, the deal structure may be displayed on an Internet site. | 11-03-2011 |
20110288951 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUYING AND SELLING GOODS AND SERVICES VIA AN ONLINE MARKETPLACE - A buying and selling process for selling and buying products and services allows buyers to post their desire-to-buy (DTB) to sellers. The sellers can respond to the DTBs by making desire-to-sell (DTS) Offers which match the DTB criteria that includes the specified product, price and DTB timing. Buyers either chose to accept or reject the offer. After a sufficient number of buyers have accepted the DTS Offer above the minimum volume of buyers for activation, the seller activates the purchase of the product or service. The buyers receive a right-to-buy (RTB) notice from the seller specifying the deal fulfillment process, including confirmation of the right-to-buy price (RTBP). | 11-24-2011 |
20110295710 | BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TOOL AND TOM$CORE SCORING MODEL - Embodiments of the invention relate to a system, method, computer product and computer system for selling a business. The method forms a set of qualified buyers and a set of qualified sellers; enabling only the set of qualified buyers to view at least one business offered for sale by the set of qualified sellers. The method further enables the set of qualified buyers and the set of qualified sellers to upload documents necessary to fund and close the sale of the at least one business; and provides the set of qualified buyers and the set of qualified sellers access to trusted support professionals. | 12-01-2011 |
20110302045 | AUTOMATIC PATENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM - The invention discloses an automatic patent transaction system. The invention comprises a patent database, a member database, a match computing device, a share computing device, a non-member database, and a licensing and transacting computing device. The operation method of the invention also comprises a method for the participation of member and non-member, and a method for the participation of member only. Thus, the invention is able to increase the trade efficiency of the patent and reduce the trade cost of the patent. | 12-08-2011 |
20110313877 | Method of Conducting Limited Time Offers for Non-Identical Items and Personal and Professional Services over the Internet - A system for aggregating demand through an online buying group, which may include: (a) an e-commerce server-data processing system and configured to define a buying marketplace for a featured at least two different items by specifying the featured at least two different items for the marketplace, a time interval during which the marketplace is available, the marketplace defining a predetermined partial number of different items to activate the sale and one or more prices for the featured product available through the marketplace, (b) a buyer client data processing system coupled to said e-commerce server-data processing system, to display the data describing the conditions for the featured items on the buyer client data processing system, and to receive buyer order inputs that include the buyer's offer for the featured items and to transmit the buyer order inputs for the featured items to said e-commerce server-data processing system. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320300 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products For Managing Organized Binary Advertising Asset Markets - Binary advertising markets are developed where personalized media such as digital and even analog advertising is delivered to and accessed by audience members enabling advertisers to buy advertising for broadcast to televisions, smartphones and other types of digital devices. The market is designed to provide participants a new way to have their orders entered, matched, executed, and settled, to manage and monitor risk characteristics of their content placement or advertising placement transactions, and any rights and positions that result from those transactions. Standardized units of exchange represented by profile access rights and display space access rights appropriately designed for their respective markets are used in both primary direct and secondary alternative markets. Processes are also implemented where an audience member receives economic benefit in exchange for confirming view of or rating an advertisement, or viewing advertisements while logged in. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING BUYER AND SELLER INTERACTION DURING A GROUP-BUYING SALE - A method and system are provided that enable buyers and sellers to communicate with each other and to negotiate the purchase terms of featured merchandise in a group-buying opportunity. Sellers and buyers may use various forms of on-line group-buying mechanisms in conjunction with the negotiation features of the invention. Buyers may send various inquiries to sellers regarding merchandise offered for sale through the online group-buying sale. Sellers may respond to buyer questions and queries, and in some instances, sellers may communicate instructions to the on-line group-buying mechanism to alter the course of an on-line group-buying sale in progress, e.g., a further reduction in price. The method and system further provides a mechanism for calculating a demand curve based on received buyer offers and applying the demand curve to an on-line group-buying sale. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005036 | Loan-it-forward trade system and method - A system and method for creating purchase transactions based on a series of previously created loan transactions is provided. The system and method applies to small unorganized groups of neighbors as well as formal trade exchanges or bartering organizations. The system provides the means for subscribing members to create a network of members, called a loan group, by loaning or consigning products and services to a set of members some of whom in turn loan or consign products and services to a third set of members and this “loan-it-forward” process can repeat as many levels as desired creating a network structure. The method of this invention determines when a purchase transaction can occur and adjusts loan units along the paths in the network structure to provide payments (equal to the purchase transaction amount) on each loan along the paths of members connecting the two members involved in the purchase transaction. | 01-05-2012 |
20120022963 | Buyer/Supplier Network that Aids Supplier Enablement Through Collaboration between Buyers and Suppliers - Embodiments of methods, systems and apparatus for a buyer/supplier network aiding supplier enablement through creation of a requisition between a buyer and a supplier are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by the buyer/supplier network, a collaboration request for information about a good or service being purchased by a buyer. At least one supplier is identified from an approved supplier list that has the requested information. An account is created for each of the identified suppliers on the buyer/supplier network, and an invitation is sent to each of the suppliers to join the buyer/supplier network. Each of the invited suppliers is allowed to log into the buyer/supplier network through the invitation, and address the request for information. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESELLING A PREVIOUSLY SOLD PRODUCT - A seller, having previously sold a product to an original purchaser subject to a buyout-provision condition, determines if the buyout-provision condition is satisfied. If the buy-out provision condition is satisfied, the seller retakes the product from the original purchaser and resells the product to a subsequent purchaser. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030052 | Method, System and Apparatus for Matching Sellers to a Buyer Over a Network and For Managing Related Information - A method and system for facilitating a transaction between a buyer and one of a number of sellers is provided. The transaction is related to a project specified by the buyer. A set of sellers is identified. A flow control process operates over a number of successive processing cycles. In each processing cycle, sellers are selected from the set for classification as sellers of a particular type (“Invited Sellers”). The Invited Sellers increase incrementally over the number of successive processing cycles. The system automatically enables at least one action carried out by the Invited Sellers in each processing cycle. The duration of the processing cycles can vary. The number of Invited Sellers selected in each processing cycle can vary. In one embodiment, the number of Invited Sellers selected in each processing cycle depends upon a number of offers that are submitted by Invited Sellers and received by the buyer. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036031 | e-COMMERCE VOLUME PRICING - A system and method that facilitates e-commerce volume pricing is provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, the system includes an offers and orders component that receives and aggregates orders for a product from a plurality of buyers. The system also includes a logistics component that determines a shipping price for the product for a subset of the plurality of buyers. The shipping price is determined at least in part upon the subset of buyers sharing a shipping method. According to another aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which buyers within an aggregated purchasing group may be subject to different pricing structures for the same product. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041832 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE FOR SERVICES HAVING A COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE - A method and system for buying and selling services online includes a process for custom services, a commodity process and a collaborative workspace on a website. The process for custom services includes the posting by a buyer of specific criteria for a desired service, the bidding by a seller to perform the service, and the selection of a seller by the buyer. The commodity process includes the posting by a seller of a service offering, the posting by the buyer of requirements for the purchase of the service offering, and the purchase of a service offering by the buyer. The commodity process may also include an optimization process that provides the buyer with an optimized list of service offerings. The collaborative workspace includes communication tools, a file structure, workbenches and project management tools used by the buyer and seller for facilitating the setup, development and release of one or more services. | 02-16-2012 |
20120059731 | Method to Facilitate Electronic Commerce Between Buyers and Sellers Using a Buyer-Initiated System - This invention is a method of brokering a relationship between buyers and sellers via electronic means by way of an intermediary facilitating this relationship. Potential buyers of goods or services relay their requirements and desired range of pricing for a good or service to an aggregator. A potential buyer's personal contact information is hidden from any seller that would be interested in selling a buyer the requested good or service. Sellers have the option of searching a list of willing buyers of goods or services or may have this list sent to them electronically. Additionally, the requirements of buyers may be proactively used to search seller websites or databases via a web crawler. A brokerage fee to an aggregator is all that is required for a seller to gain access to a buyer via proxy. This method does not bind buyers to sellers. It allows a buyer to set a pre-determined price range based on his requirements for a good or service and a seller to make an initial connection with a buyer based on these needs. Should a buyer transact with seller, the buyer is incentivized to report the sale to the intermediary such that an additional transaction fee may be charged by the aggregator. | 03-08-2012 |
20120084166 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING A TRANSACTION BY MATCHING SELLER INFORMATION AND BUYER INFORMATION - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate a transaction between a seller and a buyer. According to one embodiment, seller offer information is received at a controller. The seller offer information is associated with an item, such as a secondary market item, being offered for sale by a seller. Buyer offer information, associated with a buyer offering to make a purchase, is also received. An evaluation rule is determined, and the seller offer information and the buyer offer information are matched based on the evaluation rule. It is then arranged for the seller to sell the item to the buyer. | 04-05-2012 |
20120109769 | Method of Proximity Based Purchasing and Selling, and System Thereof - A method for proximity based purchasing and selling, and a system thereof are provided. The method includes the steps of determining a geographical location of a plurality of buyers, determining a product/service desired by at least a portion of the plurality of buyers, and grouping buyers by the determined geographical location and the desired product/service, such that a seller provides the product/service at a discounted rate as a result of the grouped buyers being in a geographical region and wanting a similar product/service. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109770 | AUTOMOBILE TRANSACTION FACILITATION USING A MANUFACTURER RESPONSE - A system, methods, and apparatus for performing automobile transactions are disclosed. In an example embodiment, automobile market data representative of current automobile market characteristics is stored. The automobile market data may include pricing, inventory, and consumer interest information received from manufacturers, dealers, and consumers. A consumer may provide a request for a manufacturer response indicating whether a specific automobile can be provided. Automobile market data may be provided to a manufacturer based on the request and a manufacturer response provides a verification, confirmation, or offer indicating that the specific automobile can be provided for the consumer. Bids to sell the specific automobile may be requested from dealers based on the manufacturer response. Dealer bids may be provided to the consumer with prices and a delivery options. The consumer may select a bid which specifies a pickup location at a first dealer. | 05-03-2012 |
20120123891 | PROFESSIONALLY-QUALIFIED BIDDING SYSTEM FOR A USER SEEKING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - A professionally-qualified bidding system for a user seeking professional services is presented. The teachings are generally related to a professionally-qualified bidding system for a user seeking professional services. From the user perspective, the system generally includes a component operable for receiving a user's request for a professional service, an optional component operable to verify the user's request, a component operable for a viewing of the user's request by a qualified professional service provider, and a component for communicating a bid from the professional service provider to the user. In some embodiments, the user's request can be verified through one or more questionnaire's, or a submission from the user. In some embodiments, the professional service provider is qualified automatically. And, in some embodiments, the bid can be updated to provide the user with a real-time, or near real-time, status of the professional service provider's offer or counteroffers. | 05-17-2012 |
20120130841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING QUALIFICATION SEARCHING AND BIDDING FOR RENTAL PROPERTIES - A computer-implemented system and method for providing qualification searching and bidding for rental properties is disclosed. A potential renter can provide qualification information and desired features of a rental unit to a rental server to determine one or more rental communities for which the potential renter is qualified. The system and method further provide the potential renter to bid for a rental property with a plurality of rental communities. | 05-24-2012 |
20120143711 | Electronic Sales With Decreasing Price - A pricing method, having multiple buyers collaborating virtually to achieve a declining price schedule for a given product or service. The method invites buyers to commit at a certain price, which may or may not be the price they ultimately pay. The price may or may not decline as more buyers commit. All buyers pay the same (lowest) price, at the end of the finite sale period. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150679 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR POWER TRANSMISSION TO AN INTELLIGENT ELECTRICITY GRID FROM A MULTI-RESOURCE RENEWABLE ENERGY INSTALLATION - A renewable energy resource management system manages a delivery of a power requirement from a multi-resource offshore renewable energy installation to an intelligent power distribution network. The installation includes multiple renewable energy resource components and is capable of variably and independently generating power from each to microgrids comprising the intelligent power distribution network so that the entire power requirement is satisfied from renewable energy resources. An electricity grid infrastructure is also disclosed in which power production is balanced with power consumption so that power storage requirements are minimized. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158533 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING PRICE OPTIMIZATION FOR DISTRIBUTED DEMAND - The method for reducing vendor bid amounts includes providing a supplier with an invitation to make a bid for supplying a digital print job. The print job is characterized by a demand for a first number of units by a select date. The method further includes determining if a demand condition can be met. The determination includes using historical data to calculate a first commitment quantity for current jobs being provided by the supplier. The first commitment quantity is then used to calculate a second commitment quantity. The second commitment quantity provides an estimate for the number of the units and a date. The second commitment quantity is displayed to the supplier. The method provides the supplier with an option to bid for producing the estimated number of units by the estimated date. | 06-21-2012 |
20120203650 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GROUP VOLUME PRICING - An apparatus and method for selling goods and services. In one embodiment, a method is described that comprises receiving volume pricing information relating to a product or a service and receiving a first predetermined time period indicating a time period that the product or service may be offered for sale. Refined volume pricing information is then calculated from the volume pricing information. The product or service is then offered electronically for sale for a duration as indicated by the first predetermined time period and including the refined volume pricing information associated with the product or service. Purchase orders are received from potential buyers. A final purchase price is then calculated for the product or service based on the number of purchase orders received during the predetermined time period and the refined volume pricing information. Finally, potential buyers are notified of the final purchase price. | 08-09-2012 |
20120209737 | Multiple Criteria Buying and Selling Model - A multiple criteria buying and selling system and method is provided. A seller initially establishes a deal structure for a product, which provides seller defined selling criteria information relating to the purchasing of the product, such as volume per unit price, quality, delivery time and warranty information. A buyer will be able to review a list of deals if the seller's selling criteria matches a buyer defined buying criteria. The deal structure is preferably set up so as to provide buyers with both price and non-price criteria information that the buyer's would consider important in a purchase of the type of product being offered by the seller. The deal structure is electronically made available to potential buyers of the product. For example, the deal structure may be displayed on an Internet site. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209738 | Multiple Criteria Buying and Selling Model - A multiple criteria buying and selling system and method is provided. A seller initially establishes a deal structure for a product, which provides seller defined selling criteria information relating to the purchasing of the product, such as volume per unit price, quality, delivery time and warranty information. A buyer will be able to review a list of deals if the seller's selling criteria matches a buyer defined buying criteria. The deal structure is preferably set up so as to provide buyers with both price and non-price criteria information that the buyer's would consider important in a purchase of the type of product being offered by the seller. The deal structure is electronically made available to potential buyers of the product. For example, the deal structure may be displayed on an Internet site. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209739 | Multiple Criteria Buying and Selling Model - A multiple criteria buying and selling system and method is provided. A seller initially establishes a deal structure for a product, which provides seller defined selling criteria information relating to the purchasing of the product, such as volume per unit price, quality, delivery time and warranty information. A buyer will be able to review a list of deals if the seller's selling criteria matches a buyer defined buying criteria. The deal structure is preferably set up so as to provide buyers with both price and non-price criteria information that the buyer's would consider important in a purchase of the type of product being offered by the seller. The deal structure is electronically made available to potential buyers of the product. For example, the deal structure may be displayed on an Internet site. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209740 | Multiple Criteria Buying and Selling Model - A multiple criteria buying and selling system and method is provided. A seller initially establishes a deal structure for a product, which provides seller defined selling criteria information relating to the purchasing of the product, such as volume per unit price, quality, delivery time and warranty information. A buyer will be able to review a list of deals if the seller's selling criteria matches a buyer defined buying criteria. The deal structure is preferably set up so as to provide buyers with both price and non-price criteria information that the buyer's would consider important in a purchase of the type of product being offered by the seller. The deal structure is electronically made available to potential buyers of the product. For example, the deal structure may be displayed on an Internet site. | 08-16-2012 |
20120226573 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUNDLING GOODS AND SERVICES - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for bundling multiple goods and/or services from one or more vendors. An exemplary system includes: a customer interface module adapted to present a bundle to a customer, the bundle comprising a plurality of items for purchase; a pricing engine module adapted to provide the vendor with pricing information for the bundle based in part on at least one vendor objective, wherein the pricing information includes a price; a fulfillment module adapted to enable a vendor to fulfill a customer order; and a payment and transaction module. | 09-06-2012 |
20120253963 | System and Method for Consolidating Purchases of Goods and Services - A system and method for consolidating the purchase of goods and services is disclosed. Users select or create a request that defines a desired product or service, where others can view and join the open request. Upon the occurrence of an event, all joined users are notified of the cost of purchasing the requested good or service and given the opportunity to accept or reject the solution to the request. If one or more users reject the solution, the cost per user is recalculated and users are notified again until all users accept or reject the solution. The cost for each individual user is the total cost of purchasing the good or service divided by the total number of joined users. | 10-04-2012 |
20120278195 | METHOD FOR LOCATING A PROVIDER AND A PROVIDER LOCATING SYSTEM - A method for locating a provider based on, among other things, proximity to a user requesting the provider. Providers that are available to respond to the request are determined and data regarding one or more of the available providers is sent to the user. | 11-01-2012 |
20120290427 | Apparatus and Method for Managing a Trust Network - A computer readable storage medium includes instructions to receive a request from a client to enroll in a trust network. A registration form is supplied to the client in response to the request. Client data in the registration form received from the client is processed to load the client data as parameters in a managed trust network. The managed trust network includes a vouch system, a complaint resolution mechanism, relationship value exchange and endorsements. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296755 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SERVICE COMPOSITION IN A SERVICE E-MARKETPLACE - A method and a system for improving the selection of a group of services, in an exchange services environment, by a user of a telecommunication network. The following steps are comprised by the invention: defining a first set of requirements in a selection criteria manager module to be fulfilled by the services; performing a search among all services available, according to services functionalities defined in a service catalog and matching the first set of requirements; discarding services which do not fulfilled the first set of requirements; defining a second set of requirements in the selection criteria manager module, the second set of requirements indicates user preferences; assigning weights to the services taking into account the second set of requirements, data from an historical information module of previous selections of the user, data from a profile of the user with previous preferences; arranging all service combination according to the weights obtained, being the first one an optimal selection; storing the selection of the user at the historical information module. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296756 | COMPUTER APPLICATION FOR SWAPPING ITEMS WITHIN A USER CONTACT NETWORK - A computer application that interfaces with a known network to identify and notify users of opportunities to swap or trade items. | 11-22-2012 |
20120310763 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MATCHING POTENTIAL BUYERS AND SELLERS OF COMPLEX OFFERS - A system for matching potential buyers and sellers of complex offers, comprising a plurality of data collection devices, each connected to at least one packet-based data network and adapted to collect data pertaining to a plurality of potential buyers or sellers of complex offers, a summary data generator software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to a database, an attribute index generator software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to the database, a categorization software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to the database, a buyer analysis engine software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to the database, an analysis engine software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to the database, and a matching engine software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to the database. Data collected by the data collection devices is stored in the database and is used by the summary data generator software module to generate a plurality of summary data elements pertaining to a potential buyer of a complex offer, and the plurality of summary data elements is stored in the database and used by the attribute index generator software module to generate attribute indices each based on at least two summary data elements using a weighted relational algorithm, and at least some data collected by the data collection devices is used by the buyer analysis engine software module to determine at least a probability that a buyer will buy a specific complex offer, and the marching engine software module uses an optimization algorithm to determine an optimal matching of potential buyers and complex offers based at least in part on a plurality of attribute indices and a likelihood to buy for each potential pair of offers and potential buyers. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310764 | DESIGNING ONLINE DEALS LEVERAGING COLLECTIVE BUYER PURCHASING POWER IN ONLINE MARKETPLACE - A market system in which buyers and sellers design deals for goods and services, and buyers attain discounts by leveraging their collective purchasing power. Buyers or sellers can design a new deal (“proposed deal”), which is then broadcasted to other system users, inviting buyers to join the purchasing pool and informing relevant sellers of a possible business opportunity. The seller meets contractual terms with the purchasing pool or a segment of the purchasing pool (“deal acceptance”) at which point transactions are executed at the designated price cut (“deal consummation”). The system facilitates the processes of initiating the right deal at a realistic discount, accumulating group-buying power, negotiating terms, and closing the deal. The system also registers buyer and seller information, monitors transactional and browsing history, and records various rates of conversion from deal participation to actual purchases. This data is analyzed and available as an informational service to market participants. | 12-06-2012 |
20130006793 | Migrating Computing Environment Entitlement Contracts Based on Seller and Buyer Specified Criteria - Mechanisms are provided for migrating a computing environment entitlement contract (CEEC) from one computing resource to another. These mechanisms generate one or more CEEC data structures, each CEEC data structure defining terms of a business level agreement between a contracting party and a provider of the data processing system. A first request from a provider system is received requesting to be a buyer of a CEEC data structure. The first request comprises first selection criteria for selecting a seller of the CEEC data structure. A second request from a seller system that owns a CEEC data structure is received requesting to be a seller of the CEEC data structure. The second request comprises second selection criteria for selecting a buyer for the CEEC data structure. The provider system is paired with the seller system based on the first and second selection criteria and the CEEC data structure is migrated from the seller system to the provider system. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006794 | ONLINE MARKETPLACE WITH OFFER/BID POOLING - Systems and methods for facilitating purchase transactions through real-time dynamic marketplace sessions are provided. A method may include pooling offers for goods/services to form a pooled offer, and pooling bids to form a pooled bid. The pooled offer and the pooled bid may be matched to form a pooled offer/bid pair. Methods for inducing and using predictive models for successful configuration of properties and participants with machine learning procedures that operate on data about successful and unsuccessful offers may be employed. A real-time dynamic marketplace session may be established between offer agents associated with the pooled offers and bid agents associated with the pooled bids. Upon a successful conclusion to the negotiation, a purchase transaction for the pooled offer/bid pair may be processed. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006795 | INTERNET BASED FORUM ALLOWING INDIVIDUAL CONSUMERS TO POOL THEIR BUYING POWER - The invention relates to a method of realizing volume saving for consumers through the use of a web based system. In the claimed method at least one consumer and at least one supplier registers in a web based medium. Each is dynamically presented with a technological environment that is customized to perform at least one consumer task or at least one supplier task. The at least one consumer utilizes the technological environment to express an interest to enter into at least one consumer transaction, and to subordinate or subject this consumer transaction to at least one prerequisite condition. The disclosed technological environment also enables the at least one supplier to list at least one supplying transaction and subject such transaction to a perquisite condition or to a prerequisite minimum quantity condition. The present invention also discloses a mediator step, which is responsible for facilitating the meeting of the minds between at least one consumer an the at least one supplier. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006796 | METHOD FOR FINDING ACTIONABLE COMMUNITIES WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS - A computer-implemented method that includes identifying a social network of a plurality of entities, each entity is associated with at least one other entity in the social network. A group of entities is identified from the plurality of entities that have expressed an interest in any one of a plurality of items. A primitive-community for each of the groups of entities is determined for each distinct item of the plurality of items. Common sets of entities are determined within each primitive-community associated with the each distinct item of the plurality of items based on a minimum support level, using a frequent itemset mining approach, where the first primitive community and the second primitive community are treated as transactions and entities are treated as items. A union including all distinct entities from the common sets of entities is determined from the common sets of entities. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006797 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VENDOR ASSURANCE - Methods and systems for managing financial transactions. Specifically, the invention includes methods and systems for creating order profiles used to select vendors for carrying out third-party sub-transactions needed to complete financial transactions. A product related to the completion of the financial transaction is selected, a vendor ordering profile is selected, a product vendor that most closely matches the characteristics designated in the ordering profile is selected, and the selected product is ordered from the selected product vendor. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013438 | Grouping Method for Group-buying Based on Wireless Communication Protocol - When a customer who encounters a specific type of merchandise he/she wants by accident, he/she is able to use his/her wireless mobile device to ask for agreements from mobile electronic devices of neighboring people who want the same type of merchandise and to group his/her mobile electronic device with mobile electronic devices of people who respond with agreements, where the mobile electronic devices are grouped by using a wireless communication protocol. With the aid of grouping those people who want the specific type of merchandise, a group-buying action can be initiated, and a discount of the specific type of merchandise can be retrieved by the grouped people. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018743 | ORDER ACCUMULATION WEBSITEAANM Yang; BillsonAACI Taipei CityAACO TWAAGP Yang; Billson Taipei City TWAANM Yang; Tony Tung-YuAACI Taipei CityAACO TWAAGP Yang; Tony Tung-Yu Taipei City TW - A order accumulation website includes a pre-order unit for receiving orders of a transaction from buying at least one commodity from consumers by a name or a keyword of the commodity; other consumers can also join the transaction so as to form an accumulation of orders; a commodity database recording names, prices, qualities and packaging of the commodities; a seller bidding unit receiving a price list based on the pre-ordering good provided by the consumers; the price list being called out from the database or from a seller real time to respond the orders of the transaction; the price list being provided by default sellers firstly; wherein the pre-order is provided before the provision of the price list; and the price list lists a plurality of prices for a commodity; the prices are descended with an increment of the order quantity. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018744 | DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018745 | SOCIAL NETWORKING BASED DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018746 | BUYER GROUP DEFINITION FOR A DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018747 | BUYER GROUP FORMATION BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORKING IN A DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018748 | INTEGRATED BUYER GROUP AND SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERFACE FOR A DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018749 | TARGETING USERS WITH BUYER GROUPS IN A DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018750 | INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORTING HOSTING OF BUYER GROUPS IN A DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018751 | USER PROFILE AND INTERACTION HISTORY BASED BUYER GROUP MATCHING IN A DEMAND DRIVEN PROMOTION SYSTEM - A system and method for providing a demand driven promotion system supporting social networking and searching, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024313 | COMMERCE NETWORK FOR MATCHING BUYERS AND SELLERS - Embodiments for methods, systems and apparatuses of a commerce network for matching buyers and sellers are disclosed. One computer-method includes identifying buyer information, wherein the buyer information includes at least one of a buyer need or a buyer profile, wherein the buyer need includes at least one of a commodity or service that the buyer has indicated a present need, and wherein the buyer profile includes at least self-reported information. The computer-method further includes identifying seller information, wherein the seller information includes at least one of a seller profile and tracked seller behavior, wherein the seller profile includes at least self-reported information and wherein the tracked seller behavior includes at least interest shown or responses of a seller to previously identified instances of buyer information. The computer-method further includes matching the buyers with sellers by matching the buyer information with the seller information. | 01-24-2013 |
20130030940 | BUSINESS MODEL FOR PROVIDING PORTAL SERVICE BASED SERVICE OVERLAY NETWORK - A service overlay network (SON) service providing apparatus and method are provided. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the SON service providing apparatus is entrusted with element services from an element service provider, sells the entrusted element services to a composite service developer so as to enable the composite service developer to use the element services. In addition, the SON service providing apparatus receives a composite service developed by the composite service developer, and provides the composite service in response to a request from a service user. | 01-31-2013 |
20130046646 | Web Based Co-Op Trust Ownership Program - The present invention is a web-based fractional ownership system method to allow individuals to meet in the marketplace and conveniently find property for joint ownership. The web system provides a structure for individuals to discuss and jointly agree to own, operate, maintain, and sell items of mutual interest. The web based fractional ownership system organizes and promotes ownership of properties, and assists potential owners in finding other owners, of similar interests in both direct and indirect, efficient methods. The system also integrates prearranged service relationships for the joint members to apply for funding, acquire insurance, store the property, and perform routine maintenance. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054402 | SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL COMMERCE AND METHOD OF SECURE, AUTOMATED CREDITING OF PUBLISHERS, EDITORS, CONTENT PROVIDERS, AND AFFILIATES - The disclosure relates to the Content Marketplace Platform (CMP), a system and method of distributing digital content to authenticated users, such as on-line subscribers, wherein all interested parties, such as, but not limited to, publishers, editors, content providers, affiliates, payment processors, and service providers, are credited automatically for their contributions in such as manner as to be perceived as being fair, transparent, and resistant to abuse. The system and method may include a digital rights management system, but this is not required. The system supports a unique method of accounting that provides appropriate incentives to editors and affiliates, as well as publishers, with facilities for specifying a set of flexible parameters that enable automated payment, accounting, reporting, and administrative functions needed to support secure, subscription-based on-line publications. | 02-28-2013 |
20130080282 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHABLE TIME-BASED OFFERS - A multiple criteria buying and selling system and method is provided. A seller initially establishes a deal structure for a product, which provides seller defined selling criteria information relating to the purchasing of the product, such as volume per unit price, quality, delivery time and warranty information. A buyer will be able to review a list of deals if the seller's selling criteria matches a buyer defined buying criteria. The deal structure is preferably set up so as to provide buyers with both price and non-price criteria information that the buyer's would consider important in a purchase of the type of product being offered by the seller. The deal structure is electronically made available to potential buyers of the product. For example, the deal structure may be displayed on an Internet site. | 03-28-2013 |
20130085883 | LIBRARY RESOURCE ACQUISITION - Acquiring resources for a plurality of customer or patrons. A method includes receiving a plurality of requests from different customers or patrons for the same groups or individual resources. The method further includes requesting a number of licenses for the groups or individual resources in a single purchasing transaction from a publisher. The method further includes receiving the number of licenses. The licenses are distributed to the different customers based on individual customer requests | 04-04-2013 |
20130091032 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CROSS SELLING OF GOODS AND SERVICES AMONG NON-AFFILIATED RETAIL MERCHANTS - Methods and systems are provided that encourage and provide informational and transactional support and infrastructure for cross-selling of products and services among otherwise unaffiliated merchants by formation of networks (e.g., social networks) of local merchants with knowledge of each others' products and services. | 04-11-2013 |
20130103529 | FACILITATING FORMATION OF SERVICE CONTRACTS BETWEEN CONSUMERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS - Embodiments extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating the formation of location-sensitive service contracts between consumers and service providers. At the request of a consumer, an auction for a service is created. The auction specifies categorical selections that describe the type of work to be performed and a geographical location at which the service is to be performed. The auction is presented to service providers based on geographical proximity of the service providers to the location at which the service is to be performed and a comparison of the categorical selections with qualification data for the service providers. Bids are received from the service providers, and a winning service provider is determined. The consumer and the winning service provider form a service contract. Subsequently, it is determine that the consumer has paid the winning service provider for performance of the service contract. | 04-25-2013 |
20130124355 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING GROUP ORDERS - A system and method for group ordering is provided including displaying an item of a vendor to users of a group, receiving orders for at least one particular item associated with the same vendor from the users of the group, combining the orders into a group order, sending the group order to the single vendor, and calculating a second price for each particular item, different from the first price, based on an amount of orders received for the single vendor. Each vendor may include multiple items and each of the multiple items may include a first price. Each order may be associated with a single vendor. | 05-16-2013 |
20130138526 | Method and System for group pricing of, and negotiation for, goods and services - A system for pricing goods or services has a database of members that join through a social networking site where the members have input pertaining to goods or services, identify one or more products or services they desire to purchase, a processor determines whether a good or service is desired by a sufficient number of members to justify bidding on that good or service, there is communication of the members' desire to purchase at a target price, and an acceptance of the price by said purveyor or a boycott of such purveyor by said members. The members'wish lists and desired aggregate product choices and price points are calculated to arrive at a discounted target price. issues of interest to members may be the focus of the boycott of related goods or services or to boycott a good or service associated with an entity to achieve societal or government change. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING A SUPPLY CHAIN - A supply chain management platform. Product information is gathered to create a product catalog having atomic product records. The product records are linked to product offers from suppliers. A retailer can select product for integration into the retailer's product catalog. Orders from retailers are matched to product offers and assigned to the corresponding supplier for fulfillment of the order. Retailers and suppliers are given visibility in to the system to maximize efficiencies. | 06-06-2013 |
20130159128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SECURITY IN VARIABLE TIME-BASED LICENSING SYSTEMS - A system and method for a software licensing system for use in e.g., a variable time-based licensing, is provided. Such a system includes a secure device, including a first computer readable medium, configured to connect to a computer, including a second computer readable medium and microprocessor. The secure device can further include a chips pool which stores inactive chips, and a chips accounting manager, operable to receive license requests for software tools and to determine whether to grant the license request. In this context “chips” can be considered a currency which can be traded to use software tools for a period of time associated with each chip. The system further includes a license server, executing on the computer. The license server can include a license manager which tracks active chips and manages activated chip check-in and checkout, and a chips cache which stores activated chips. | 06-20-2013 |
20130173409 | Network Trading Systems and Methods - Network trading systems and methods to be used in an application (App) download use environment are provided. At least one consumer selects required applications by using system operational interfaces (ex. browser pictures, window interface, software operational interfaces), and determines a price expected to buy the selected application. A developer of applications determines to supply the selected application to the at least one consumer with a free promotion and/or a price reduction promotion, according to the number of the consumer expected to buy the application, and/or in addition, the at least one consumer can exchange and use the application according to his use situation. | 07-04-2013 |
20130211944 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SHARING A PRODUCT/SERVICE AND ITS ASSOCIATED PURCHASE PRICE BETWEEN CUSTOMERS - A peer-to-peer, collaborative, group-buying website permits customers co-pay and co-share items. The e-commerce website may locate and display an item offered for sale by a merchant. A sale price of the item may be displayed wherein use and sale price of the item may be shared between first and second customers. A first customer bid may be displayed to use the item for a first period of time wherein the first bid is equal to a first fraction of the sale price. A second customer bid may be displayed to use the item for a second period of time wherein the second bid is equal to a second fraction of the sale price. In this manner, the first and second customers are authorized to use the item for the first and second periods of time upon simultaneously paying the first and second fractions of the sale price. | 08-15-2013 |
20130218703 | GROUP DISCOUNT COLLABORATIVE WEB BASED SHOPPING SYSTEM - The present invention is directed towards to computerized social networks and e-commerce and facilitating ad-hoc screen sharing and co-browsing between users of a social network. The collaborative browsing includes group discounts. The collaborative browsing method comprises a server computer having a Shopping With A Friend (SWAF) server engine coupled to a database, a SWAF client engine coupled to the SWAF server engine and a plurality of client computers each having a web browser program that runs the SWAF client engine. The web browser program does not include a collaboration plug-in. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226723 | Online System and Method for Facilitating Networking Between Buyers and Sellers Within a Specific Industry - A system and method utilizing an online communications network and hardware connecting users in a specific industry with each other for the purposes of facilitating an efficient identification and exchange of relevant goods and services. Industry specific search tools are provided to allow users to quickly delimit an inventory of products and services, thus efficiently locating what they seek. The inventory of products and services is provided by other users who provide the necessary criteria so that search tools can be effective. Additional functionality allows a user to contact another user to request additional information and initiate negotiations wherein a successful transaction may occur either on site or off site. | 08-29-2013 |
20130238461 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MATCHING CONSUMERS WITH PROVIDERS - The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems for matching consumers with providers such as childcare providers. One implementation may include a web interface or application for a consumer, such as a parent, to build a network of providers that the consumer can draw upon. In one aspect, the consumer can leverage on existing relationships to build his/her own network of trusted sitters. Examples of existing relationships may include friends, family and social networks. The consumer's network may extend to a plurality of parents sharing a plurality of sitters. The consumer may leverage on cooperatives or other types of membership or affiliations to a group or other organization. For example, groups of parents may trade babysitting help amongst themselves within a cooperative or coop. In such a case, a parent can be a consumer or provider in relation to another member. | 09-12-2013 |
20130246207 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING PRICES FOR SERVICES - A method for adjusting prices for services is provided. One or more processors make a determination of an amount of requesters for a service at a given time and an amount of available service providers for providing the service at the given time. A price, relative to a default price, for using the service provided by one or more service providers is adjusted based on the determined amount of requesters and the determined amount of available service providers. Pricing data corresponding to the adjusted price is transmitted to one or more requesting devices or one or more provider devices so that the adjusted price can be displayed on at least one of the one or more requesting devices or the one or more provider devices and be indicative of an adjustment in price as compared to the default price. | 09-19-2013 |
20130262254 | System and method for organizing trade via the internet - A method of organizing a trade includes in an electronic data processing system introducing by a plurality of users information about the users and about items which they are willing to buy and to sell, searching by the users information about items which they are willing to sell and to buy, generating connection between them, and based on the connections finding a plurality of groups of users, such that in each group of users there are a buy only buyer, a sell-only seller, and a plurality of buy/sell traders. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262255 | FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS WITH GRANULAR JOB OUTCOMES - Disclosed is facilitating granular job used vehicle transactions. Methods can include assessing a market value of a vehicle, integrating the assessed market value of the identified vehicle into a market model including an adaptive pricing strategy, and setting a seller-side price for the identified vehicle based on the adaptive pricing strategy. Methods can also include building a marketing model of the identified vehicle based on the adaptive pricing strategy, attracting a set of potential buyers based on the marketing model, receiving buyer-related information about each of the set of potential buyers, and identifying one or more qualified buyers from the set of potential buyers based on the buyer-related information of the one or more qualified buyers. Methods can also include facilitating a sale of the vehicle from the seller to at least one of the one or more qualified buyers. | 10-03-2013 |
20130268385 | GROUP-BUYING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - This invention discloses a group-buying system and a method thereof. The system comprises a server end and a plurality of user ends. The system server provides a group-buying platform. The plurality of user ends is connected to the server end so as to log onto the group-buying platform. Wherein, user ends can create a group-buying message related to a specific product and display the group-buying message on the group-buying platform so as to launch a group-buying activity for the specific product. The group-buying message comprises a buyer number threshold value defining the minimum number of people which the group-buying activity needs. The server executes a trading procedure with each of the user ends joining the group-buying activity, when the number of people joining the group-buying activity is greater than or equal to the buyer number threshold value. | 10-10-2013 |
20130282507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND PURCHASING RETAIL PRODUCTS - A System and Method For Identifying and Purchasing Retail Products is disclosed. The system allows a community of members to communicate and interact with one another. A member or members of the community may provide information related to a desired product or service to the community of members who may then collectively create an aggregate purchase offer for the desired product or service to a merchant or merchants. The system further provides a mechanism for the merchant to either accept the aggregate purchase price or to provide a counter-offer, and further provides a mechanism for members of the community of members to either accept the counter-offer or to provide a new counter-offer to the merchant. The system and related methods may further interoperate with social networking systems and methods and provide social networking abilities to the community of members. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282508 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND PURCHASING RETAIL PRODUCTS - A System and Method For Identifying and Purchasing Retail Products is disclosed. The system allows a community of members to communicate and interact with one another. A member or members of the community may provide information related to a desired product or service to the community of members who may then collectively create an aggregate purchase offer for the desired product or service to a merchant or merchants. The system further provides a mechanism for the merchant to either accept the aggregate purchase price or to provide a counter-offer, and further provides a mechanism for members of the community of members to either accept the counter-offer or to provide a new counter-offer to the merchant. The system and related methods may further interoperate with social networking systems and methods and provide social networking abilities to the community of members. | 10-24-2013 |
20130311315 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING GROUP BUY TRANSACTIONS - A method and a system for determining a group buy preference corresponding to a group of social media platform users, determining an appropriate retailer corresponding to the determined group buy preference, and transmitting a request for a group buy deal corresponding to the group buy preference to the appropriate retailer. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311316 | Computerized Method For Initiating a Group Buy - A method for organizing a group buy organizes a group of buyers and a seller through a website. The seller is able to list any number of items in each group buy, providing sale parameters for each of the items. Once the items are listed, buyers may enter the group buy to place bids on any or all of the listed items. The buyers may choose to bid different amounts on each item, as well as a purchase quantity for each item. Periodically a system will review the bids submitted by the buyers, forming groups to determine the highest profit that can be made based on different combinations of bids submitted by the buyers. The system calculates a highest potential profit for each item being offered and then sums said potential profits for a total profit. The group buy ends successfully if the sale parameters have been met. | 11-21-2013 |
20130332299 | APPLICATION PRICING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention discloses an application pricing method and apparatus, pertaining to the field of the field of software technologies. The method includes: packaging a plurality of applications to obtain an application package; obtaining prices of applications in the application package in a predetermined charging mode; and obtaining by calculation the price of the application package in the predetermined charging mode according to the prices of the applications. According to the technical solutions of the present invention, an application package can be conveniently and quickly priced, and the charging mode of the application package is flexible and diversified. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339169 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DYNAMIC PRICED OFFERS UTILIZING CONDITIONAL PLEDGING - A method and system for group having and selling is provided, where dynamic priced offers are managed utilizing conditional pledging. In some embodiments, a dynamic priced offer management system includes an end user communication device in data connection with the system server, the server including a file with instructions to execute commands to enable execution of the offer management, a system database including is memory having stored thereon system data, offer data, and user data; a dynamic pricing module including instructions to execute commands to enable dynamic price offer management and a conditional pledging module including instructions to execute commands to enable conditional pledging. | 12-19-2013 |
20130346226 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT PLANNING AND PARTICIPATION AND A BALLOT PLATFORM FOR TRANSACTIONS FOR GOODS AND SERVICES - A website provides facilities for organizing an event including location, time and date selection, performer selection and promotion. Users can present themselves as performers for selection by an event organizer for an event performance. Users at the event are permitted access to the website to upload recorded media from the event, which can be live streaming content. Users can comment on the event in association with the uploaded media. Previous event recordings and comments can be archived for later viewing. Users can rent and selectively send/receive media to/from other users. A VIP event purchase option is available for groups to register to attend an event. The website permits product and/or service purchases, such as event ticket purchase, where the event need not be organized through the website. Users may be granted special status as regular commentators. | 12-26-2013 |
20140019283 | MULTI-BENEFACTOR ITEM PAYMENT SYSTEM - A computer system includes one or more network interfaces configured to, for each of a plurality of benefactors, send to an electronic device of the benefactor information specifying an item desired by a beneficiary, wherein the item is offered for sale by a merchant at a price. The interfaces are also configured to, for each of the plurality of benefactors, receive from the benefactor electronic device information specifying a portion of the item price the benefactor agrees to pay. The computer system also includes a central processing unit (CPU) configured to determine that a sum of the portions of the item price the plurality of benefactors agreed to pay has reached the item price and in response pay the merchant for the item. | 01-16-2014 |
20140058874 | INTEGRATION OF COMMERCE NETWORKS - Embodiments of methods, systems and apparatus for integrating commerce networks are disclosed. One method includes receiving a commercial transaction request associated with a business process from a member of the second commerce network, to conduct commerce with a member of the first commerce network, wherein the request includes a second commerce network associated identifier, confirming that the member of the second commerce network is a user of the second commerce network based on the second commerce network associated identifier, enabling the member of the second commerce network to join the first commerce network upon confirmation that the member of the second commerce network is a user of the second commerce network, and allowing the member of the second commerce network to conduct commerce on the first commerce network after enabling the member of the second commerce network. | 02-27-2014 |
20140081791 | ONLINE GROUP-BUYING METHOD - In an online group-buying method, a server sends a group-buying invitation message, which includes shop information associated with a seller terminal, to an invitee terminal in an invitee list in response to a group-buying invitation request message from an inviter terminal. Upon receipt of a join message and a purchase order, which is associated with one or more products provided by the seller terminal, from the invitee terminal, the server sends the join message and the purchase order to the inviter terminal. Then, the inviter terminal sends an integrated purchase order, which is generated according to at least the purchase order, to the seller terminal. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089123 | Providing Notice and Purchasing A Gift In An Online or Electronic Environment - Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for funding the purchase of one or more gifts. In one embodiment, a method for purchasing gifts may include providing a computing device configured to access one or more retailer websites. Each retailer website may list one or more gifts available for purchase. The method may include selecting a plurality of gifts available for purchase. The method may include ranking the selected plurality of gifts to indicate a funding order. The method may include receiving one or more monetary contributions to fund the purchase of one or more of the selected plurality of gifts. The method may include allocating the one or more monetary contributions according to the rank of the selected plurality of gifts prior to purchase of one or more of the gifts. The method may include deselecting at least one of the selected gifts. | 03-27-2014 |
20140100982 | GUIDED PROCUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A guided procurement system for guiding the buyer for procuring when the item to be purchased is not present in the catalog database, which is an integration of a procurement tool, supplier information system tool and supplier performance system tool. The system includes a processor unit and a computer readable medium storing instructions executable by the processor unit, including a first procurement guiding module that is adapted for guiding the requester for procurement when the item is not available in the catalog database, and a second procurement guiding module that is adapted for guiding the procurement team or the buyer for procurement from the right supplier. The system is adapted for guiding the buyer while procuring by suggesting the source of procurement based on the user provided information on a web form. It further guides by suggesting the supplier from which a particular item can be procured. | 04-10-2014 |
20140100983 | MULTI-PARTY PAYMENT OBJECT ORIENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention involves a server for accommodating multiple payments in an e-commerce transaction. The server includes a processor with a communications device and software modules. The vendor software module is adapted to receive payment requirements from a vendor via the communications device, and also to receive payment parameters from an initiator. The payment parameters include an item payment amount and an identification of at least one contributor. The contributor software module is adapted to obtain payment information from at least one of the initiator and the contributors wherein the payment information is sufficient to authorize the commitment of funds to a transaction. The aggregation software module is adapted to send participation messages via the communications device to at least one contributor. The participation messages include information on the item, the item payment amount, and directions for the contributor to interact with the contributor module. Further, the aggregation software module maintains a total of committed funds and initiates a payment transaction when the committed funds are sufficient to pay the vendor the item payment amount. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108178 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE METHOD, USER END, AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE COLLABORATIVE SHOPPING - The present invention provides an information exchange method, a user end, and a system for online collaborative shopping. The method includes: sending a collaborative shopping request message that includes one or more user identifiers to a collaborative server; receiving a collaborative shopping startup message; submitting a shopping web page of the main control user end to the collaborative server, and submitting, to the collaborative server, operation information generated when a user of the main control user end operates a shopping web page; and receiving operation information generated when a user on the collaborative user end operates a shopping web page according to a commodity feature concerned by the user on the shopping web page, and displaying, on the shopping web page, an operation result of the user on the collaborative user end for the shopping web page. | 04-17-2014 |
20140149244 | DEMAND AGGREGATION TO ENABLE EFFICIENT NEIGHBORHOOD DELIVERY - A method, apparatus, and system of demand aggregation in a geo-spatial network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes creating an item group associated with a registered user of a geo-spatial network, inviting a set of neighboring users geo-spatially proximate to the registered user to join the item group, placing at least one of the set of neighboring users as a member of the item group and/or communicating items of the item group to a set of providers of the items of the item group. The method may include placing a good and/or a service in the item group, and/or generating a frequency data, a pricing data, a unit data, and/or a time data. The method may further include geo-fencing the item group in an area that encompasses a neighborhood community in a threshold geographical radius from the registered user who creates the item group. | 05-29-2014 |
20140172611 | BUYER-SOLICITED OFFERINGS - Members of a buyers' group hosted at an online marketplace submit desired-item descriptions for items the desired purchase. The desired-item descriptions are developed into desired-item listings presented at the buyers' group. Multiple buyers may be interested in the same desired-item listing and having expressed a purchase commitment for the item listing, their cumulative numbers as potential buyers may be displayed to sellers navigating the marketplace. A seller having a corresponding sale item to the desired-item may submit an item description that is developed into an item listing and containing an offer to sell the item. In this way buyers are able to attract offers to sell items that the buyers desire and by attracting multiple sellers, bidding wars between sellers develop higher value deals for the buyers. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172612 | Method for the Offer and Sale of Products and/or Services at a Discounted Price - A method for the offer and sale of one or more products and/or services with a discounted price associated with a minimum number of buyers. An expiry time is associated to the offer. The offer is opened with a starting price that is higher than the prearranged discounted price. Once the offer has been opened, users can subscribe to it through paying the discounted price. For every person subscribing to the offer, the price decreases by an amount that is proportional to the number of persons that subscribe to the offer until it reaches the prearranged discounted price. If the number of persons who subscribed the offer is equal to the prearranged minimum number of buyers the offer is dosed. If, at the end of the prearranged maximum amount of time of the offer, the number of persons who subscribed to the offer is lower than the prearranged minimum number of buyers, every person has a prearranged amount of time to pick and execute one of two options: —paying the difference between the price reached by the product or service at the end of the offer and the prearranged discounted price or —receiving a refund of an amount which is smaller than the prearranged discounted price. | 06-19-2014 |
20140180861 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COLLABORATIVE BUNDLING - A method and a system for collaborative bundling of items in an online marketplace are provided. For example, a first identification of a first item for sale in an online marketplace and an indication of availability to bundle may be received from a client device. Based on the indication of availability to bundle, an identification interface that presents identifications of one or more items suitable for bundling with the first item may be provided to the client device. A selection of a second identification of a second item may be received. The second identification may be selected from the identifications of the one or more items. A negotiation within the online marketplace pertaining to a bundling of the first and second items may be facilitated. A bundle listing including the first identification of the first item and the second identification of the second item may be generated based on the negotiation. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188650 | MOBILE GROUP-BUYING METHOD, PLATFORM AND MACHINE READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A mobile group-buying method including: receiving, by a Location-Based Service (LBS) platform, a group-forming request initiated by a mobile user; and sending, by the LBS platform, a group-forming invitation to mobile users whose geographical locations meet a requirement, recording mobile users who accept the group-forming invitation, and launching a corresponding group-buying service in the case where the number of the recorded mobile users reaches a predetermined threshold. The method is capable of enhancing the accuracy of information pushing. | 07-03-2014 |
20140214580 | ACTIVATION OF MEDIA PRODUCT AGGREGATION USING ORDER HISTORY - A method is disclosed for aggregating multiple customer quoting requirements for product production and distribution to select appropriate production entities. The method includes receiving data from a network of production entities, including production and distribution pricing grids; receiving quoting requirements from a plurality of customers for producing and distributing a plurality of customer designated products that include quoting deadlines; and storing historic information related to the timing and customer requirements of prior completed customer quotes. The method further includes using a processor to aggregate multiple customer quoting requirements by simultaneously using at least the production and distribution pricing grids from the one or more production entities, the customer quoting requirements and the stored historic information to determine if the quoting requirements should be aggregated now or in the future. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214581 | PRODUCTION CAPACITY MANAGEMENT IN MEDIA PRODUCT AGGREGATION SYSTEMS - A method is disclosed for managing production capacity. The method includes calculating a baseline of aggregated media product volumes and an associated target cost; using a processor to determine if the current volume of received quoting requirements will produce the baseline of aggregated media product volumes; and calculating adjusted target cost estimates. The method further includes using the communication network to send the quoting requirements and the calculated target cost estimates to a subset of the network of production entities; receiving actual cost estimates based on the calculated target cost estimates from the subset of the network of production entities; calculating customer prices for the plurality of customers for producing and distributing customer designated media products based on the received actual cost estimates; and using the communication network to provide customer prices to plurality of customers for producing and distributing customer designated media products. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214582 | ADJUSTING A CUSTOMER CATALOG FOR ORDERING VISUAL MEDIA PRODUCTS - A method is disclosed for adjusting a customer catalog for the production and distribution of visual media products based on system capacity. The method includes using a communication network to receive data including production pricing grids, distribution pricing grids, and production capacity thresholds from a network of visual media production entities; and receiving quoting requirements from a plurality of customers for producing and distributing visual media products selected from an on-line catalog. The method further includes using a processor to calculate system capacity, an aggregation of customer orders, and initial customer pricing for the aggregation; calculating adjusted pricing based upon system capacity; and updating the catalog with the adjusted pricing. | 07-31-2014 |
20140236748 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE PURCHASES BY COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNITS THAT ARE GENERATED TO ALLOW USERS TO NEGOTIATE BETTER PRICES WITH VENDORS - A method of facilitating a creation of group of customers and soliciting an offer for a plurality of goods or services, which includes enrolling a plurality of consumers in a service for submission of at least one offer to at least one vendor to purchase goods or services; receiving requests for goods and/or services from the plurality of consumers via a networking device; automatically processing requests for goods and/or service from the plurality of consumers to build at least one group request of similar and/or identical goods and/or services for a submission to at least one vendor; and submitting the at least one group request to the at least one vendor on behalf of the plurality of consumers. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236749 | APPLYING CUSTOMER FEEDBACK TO GROUP BUYING DEALS - A system and method for ensuring the quality of a group buying experience includes: receiving a request to sell a product; negotiating a service level agreement with the business; receiving customer feedback on the group buying experience; computing a customer satisfaction score for the group buying experience representing a degree of customer satisfaction; mapping the computed customer satisfaction score to terms in the service level agreement; and providing an instruction related to the customer satisfaction score. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236750 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELLING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES VIA CROWDSOURCING AND REALITY TV SHOW - Provided are computer implemented methods and systems for selling products and services using crowdsourcing. An exemplary method comprises receiving information associated with a crowdsourcing item. The crowdsourcing item is associated with an owner of the crowdsourcing item. The information includes a target amount for crowdsourcing. One or more contributions associated with the crowdsourcing item are received from one or more users. The total amount of the contributions is periodically calculated. When determined that the total amount has reached the target amount, the total amount is transferred to the owner. Additionally, the crowdsourcing item may be produced by the owner using the contributions and delivered to the users who made contributions either by one item to each of the users or by a share of the crowdsourcing item proportional to the contribution made. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244417 | COLLABORATIVE BARGAINING - A collaborative bargaining system receives expressions of interest from potential buyers of an item. The collaborative bargaining system receives bids from sellers of the item. Each bid consists of a price per item based on a minimum quantity of items. A time limited exclusive opportunity is awarded to one seller of the item to obtain from the interest group a commitment to buy the minimum quantity of items at the price per item as bid by the one seller. | 08-28-2014 |
20140279132 | BUYER ASSIGNMENT FOR REQUISITIONS LINES - A rules engine uses a set of sequenced rules in determining which rule to apply when assigning buyers in a procurement organization to requisitions submitted to the procurement organization. The rules are user-configurable to provide flexible reconfiguration of how the rules engine determines buyer assignments. Attributes of the requisitions may be utilized to determine the appropriate buyers by comparing the attributes with the rules. Sequencing of the rules allows for prioritization of the rules in instances where multiple rules may be applicable to a received requisition. Updates to a rule set can be tested on sample requisitions to allow users to see the results of the updates. | 09-18-2014 |
20140310118 | PEERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND ONLINE SHOPPING - The number of users viewing a given variable directly affects the rate of change and/or outcome of said variable. In the case of eCommerce, pricing of products and/or services is based upon a user accessing a website on which products and/or services are for sale. An initial price indicia associator associates initial price indicia with the products and/or services files. The initial pricing can be based upon historical indicia or the engine itself. Thereafter, a price indicia adjuster adjusts the pricing responsive to user access of the website or related website. A user interface meter shown on the website indicates to potential buyers how much interest there is in the product and/or service being sold so that peer activity is exhibited to potential buyers to encourage sales and impulsive buying behavior. Pricing is dynamic and adjusts in real-time at a rate determined by the amount of users accessing the website. | 10-16-2014 |
20140330661 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating a Transaction by Matching Seller Information and Buyer Information - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate a transaction between a seller and a buyer. According to one embodiment, seller offer information is received at a controller. The seller offer information is associated with an item, such as a secondary market item, being offered for sale by a seller. Buyer offer information, associated with a buyer offering to make a purchase, is also received. An evaluation rule is determined, and the seller offer information and the buyer offer information are matched based on the evaluation rule. It is then arranged for the seller to sell the item to the buyer. | 11-06-2014 |
20140344092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SINGLE SALE TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING ONE OR MORE PAYORS - A system for processing sales transaction may include a first computing device in communication with a buyer-operated computing device, and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the first computing device. The computer-readable storage medium may include programming instructions for receiving an order including one or more of a commitment of a buyer to purchase an item, and a preferred share value associated with the buyer, receiving contact information associated with one or more third parties, receiving a fractional share value associated with each of the one or more third parties, and in response to a sum of the fractional share values associated with each third party and the preferred share value equaling the purchase price associated with the item, using the received contact information to send a message to each third party. Each message may include the fractional share associated with the third party. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344093 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GROUP SHOPPING - An approach is provided for efficiently creating a group shopping event. The approach involves determining one or more items in one or more preference lists associated with one or more users. The approach also comprises determining one or more associations among one or more other items in the one or more preference lists with the one or more items. The approach further comprises processing and/or facilitating a processing of the one or more associations to cause, at least in part, a selection of at least one of the one or more other items. The approach additionally comprises determining to generate at least one group shopping event based, at least in part, on a bundling of the selected at least one of the one or more other items with the one or more items to create one or more bundles. | 11-20-2014 |
20140365325 | DIGITALLY SENDING AN ITEM TO A RECIPIENT FROM AN E-COMMERCE SITE - A method to provide digital transmission of an item from a shopper to a recipient using an e-commerce website. The method includes adding a “gifting” function by inserting a few lines of code, selecting an item by the shopper and inserting personal details and details of a recipient, activating the “gifting” function and finalizing the purchase of the item. The method also includes receiving authorization by the system, submitting a request via an API to partnering gift card issuers, one of the partnering networks for a closed loop by a particular store or open loop gift card code by a partnering network, digitally sending the code to the recipient, along with an image and other details, receiving the code by the recipient to be used to redeem the item selected by the purchaser or another item and using the code in a corresponding store. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372242 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SHARING OWNERSHIP OF AND AUTHORIZING ACCESS TO DIGITAL MEDIA - A method of sharing and managing ownership of and access to digital media works includes initially offering for sale a predetermined number of blocks of a digital media work, for example, a song, each block representing a share of ownership of the song. Access is provided to a user to use the digital media work, for example, to listen to the song, via a link provided after purchasing a block of the song. The selling price of the blocks is updated based on a demand for the digital media work. For example, the selling price can be increased in incremental amounts in proportion to a percentage of the number of blocks sold until the entire initial stash of blocks is sold. Thereafter, blocks can be sold to, and traded between, users in various gaming and other applications that promote social aspects of the method, as well as for profit. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379509 | MATCHING SUPPORT DEVICE, MATCHING SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A matching support device which achieve matching between demand information and supply information, quickly and accurately reflecting changes in information. The present invention is provided with an information recording unit | 12-25-2014 |
20150012373 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUS FOR GROUP-BASED TRANSACTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus to generate group transactions for an item are described. An item may be one or more of a product and a service. An acceptable price for an item may be obtained from a consumer. The consumer may be categorized into a group characterized by common price range. A group offer may be provided to one or more sellers and/or one or more buyers. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012374 | SYSTEM, PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR SHARED ORDER MANAGEMENT - There is provided, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a system, platform and method to provide shared order management based on a shared order platform used by buyers and suppliers. In some embodiments the order management platform includes an order server in a communications cloud, coupled to an order database; a shared order platform adapted to facilitate usage by one or more authorized buyers and/or suppliers, wherein the shared order platform includes a shared structured document with order related data layers; and a tokenized link with an address linking to the shared order platform, where the tokenized link is adapted to allow entry into the shared order platform via entering a page defined within the tokenized link. | 01-08-2015 |
20150019361 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING A VIRTUAL AGGREGATION GROUP - Some examples provide systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing virtual aggregation groups using a market platform. An example method may include establishing, using a market platform, a virtual aggregation group comprising at least two members. The method may also include generating a committed pricing agreement between the virtual aggregation group and at least one supplier. The committed pricing agreement may include compliance terms that determine at least one price parameter for a product purchase by the at least two members of the virtual aggregation group from the supplier based on a market commitment of the virtual aggregation group. The method may further include monitoring spending of the members of the virtual aggregation group, determining, using the monitored spending, whether the virtual aggregation group has met the market commitment, and notifying the supplier or the members of the virtual aggregation group of whether the virtual aggregation group has met the market commitment. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019362 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING FRACTIONAL OWNERSHIP OF PHYSICAL GOODS - The present invention generally relates to dividing ownership of indivisible assets. More specifically, the present invention discloses a system and method for dividing, recording, transferring, and verifying ownership of art, collections of art, artifacts, land marks and architecture, sports franchises, rare or collectible items, and other trophy assets which are otherwise physically indivisible. These assets are often too expensive to be owned by most individuals. Particularly with respect to museums and artwork, the system allows organizations to generate revenue from selling fractions of artwork to a plurality of owners while keeping physical possession and stewardship over the artwork. | 01-15-2015 |
20150025991 | INTERNET BASED E-COMMERCE PLATFORM FOR USE BY CONSUMERS USING SOCIAL NETWORKS - A dynamic social-buying platform that provides a consumer with the necessary tools to leverage social media outlets (e.g. email, blogs, posting, etc.) in order to achieve specific levels of scale in assembling a specific group interested in a specific product or service, which in turn forces a retailer (who has previously committed to the platform) to furnish a given product or service at predetermined discount levels (which are directly correlated to the size of the group). In essence, a consumer forms a virtual group (for a specific product of interest), the consumer then recruits members to their virtual group via social media channels, and upon achieving certain levels of scale for that particular virtual group the consumer can force a retailer in the network to furnish the given product at a set discount level. | 01-22-2015 |
20150058148 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING PRICING FOR GROUP ACTIVITIES OVER A DATA NETWORK - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for updating pricing information for participation in a group activity for a plurality of users. In one embodiment, a method comprises enabling definition of group activities for participation by the users, definition including at least attributes desired of users to participate; creating personal profiles for users of the system, including one or more of personal attributes, data regarding activity preferences, activity participation history, user location, and user calendar of pending activity; determining initial pricing to be enforced for participation in a pending group activity; evaluating information about users scheduled to participate in the pending group activity periodically after the initial pricing is determined; adjusting the pricing for the activity based on results of the periodic evaluation; and publishing an updated pricing accessible to the participating users over the network. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066676 | Method of distribution and sales management, and quality control for a new supply chain in global trade - A method for a global supply chain and a quality control method for its quality management, using IT technology. | 03-05-2015 |
20150073929 | TRANSACTION FACILITATING MARKETPLACE PLATFORM - A platform facilitates buyers, sellers, and third parties in obtaining information related to each other's transaction histories, such as a supplier's shipment history, the types of materials typically shipped, a supplier's customers, a supplier's expertise, what materials and how much a buyer purchases, buyer and shipper reliability, similarity between buyers, similarity between suppliers, and the like. The platform aggregates data from a variety of sources, including, without limitation, customs data associated with actual import/export transactions, non-public shipper records, and facilitates the generation of reports as to the quality of buyers and suppliers, the reports relating to a variety of parameters that are associated with buyer and supplier quality. | 03-12-2015 |
20150088679 | PROPOSED PACKAGES FOR A FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention comprise systems, computer program products, and methods for a financial and social management system that provides improved tracking and management related to how, where, when, and with whom a user enters into activities. The financial and social management system captures activity information and images from various sources of information, including but not limited to social networking accounts, e-receipts, calendars, contact lists, location determination devices, and the like, and associates the activity information and images with the activities. The financial and social management system captures past and future activities based on a future location or future time period, and assembles the activities into packages. The proposed packages are supplemented with the images and the activity information related to past and future activities captured from the various sources of information, and the activities, activity information, and images are displayed in a package interface. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095177 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SUBSCRIBER ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION USING COMMUNITY VALIDATION - A computer implemented method and apparatus for providing subscriber eligibility verification using community validation. The method comprises: receiving credentials to verify a user as eligible to be a member of a group; matching the credentials to member information of a plurality of verified members of the group; requesting a reference from a plurality of matched verified members of the group, verifying that the user is eligible to be a member of the group; and validating the user as a member of the group upon receipt of at least one of the requested references. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095178 | GROUP DISCOUNT MEDIA PRICING - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for group discount pricing for mobile content. The system first provides a group invitational content associated with an item for presentation at a display, the group invitational content indicating a discount price provided for the item if a number of offers are made to purchase the item within a period of time. Next, the system receives an offer to purchase the item at the discount price according to the group invitational content. The system then sends an indication of the offer to a list of purchases associated with the group invitational content, the indication prompting the offer to be added to the list of purchases. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095179 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes: an information offering unit that offers information on joint purchase of a commodity to a plurality of candidates; and an adjuster that performs adjustment about the commodity. Alternatively, an electronic device includes: an information obtainer that obtains information on a purchase commodity or a purchase scheduled commodity of a first group; and an information offering unit that offers information on a commodity relevant to the purchase commodity or the purchase scheduled commodity of the first group to a second group, based on the information obtained by the information obtainer, the second group being different from the first group. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100446 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR PURCHASING COMMERCE ITEM USING BID SOLICITATION - An apparatus, and an associated method, facilitates purchase of a commerce item by a prospective buyer. The prospective buyer submits information associated with a commerce item that the prospective buyer desires to sell. The information is posted, available to prospective sellers of the commerce item. The prospective sellers submit bids, and the prospective buyer selects from amongst the submitted bids to purchase the commerce item. | 04-09-2015 |
20150112827 | Devices, Methods, and Computer Readable Storage Devices for Providing Offers Based onAqqreqate Need - Offers are provided based on an aggregate need. Data is collected data from a plurality of different communication devices. The data collected from each respective communication device indicates a need for a product associated with the respective communication device. An aggregate need for the product is determined based on the collected data. A determination is also made whether the aggregate need for the product meets a threshold. Responsive to determining that the aggregate need for the product meets the threshold, an offer for fulfilling the need for the product is sent to each respective communication device from which the data was collected that indicated the need for the product. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120482 | Efficient Electronic Procurement Using Mathematical Optimization in an Electronic Marketplace - Embodiments are directed to electronic commerce and/or procurement in which buyers and suppliers are linked via an electronic marketplace in a cloud computing environment. Orders are placed by buyers to be executed and delivered by suppliers. An efficient electronic procurement network uses a mathematical optimization algorithm to minimize order costs while adhering to buyer requirements, optimization parameters, and supplier constraints. Suppliers input updated product information, as well as various constraints relating to the products, into the electronic marketplace to be used by the optimization algorithm. In some embodiments, multiple transaction options are provided to the buyer, with the multiple options determined by relaxing one or more of the buyer requirements and optimization parameters in the optimization algorithm. | 04-30-2015 |
20150149316 | Method and System of Conducting Online Group Purchase - A method and system of conducting online group purchase is implemented through a computer network including a seller's computer device and a purchaser's terminal device. The method includes showing a product on a website and displaying an initial price and a time period of an online sale of the product, starting a time counter, tracking and displaying a cumulative total quantity of the product currently ordered by all purchasers since the beginning of the online sale, and updating in real time the cumulative total quantity each time a new order is received from a new purchaser. When the cumulative quantity reaches a volume threshold value, a discounted price is released for the product, which is displayed on the website. Once the time period of the online sale has elapsed, all the purchasers are notified to proceed to payment based on the discounted price. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294381 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING TRADING PARTNERS IN A COMMERCE NETWORK - A method for recommending a first member of a trading network to a second member of a trading member of the network, wherein the network includes a message translation system, a pattern recognition engine and a discovery portal. The method for recommending includes identifying a first plurality of trading parameters of the first member with the message translation system and identifying a second plurality of trading parameters of the second member with the message translation system. The method also includes identifying patterns that are related between the first plurality of trading parameters and the second plurality of trading parameters with the pattern recognition engine and sending a recommendation message to the second member regarding the first member based on the identified patterns that relate the first member to the second member. | 10-15-2015 |
20150310515 | AD HOC MERCHANT CONFIGURATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing a merchant virtual storefront to a customer device include a system provider device that receives, through communication over a network with a merchant device that is located at a merchant physical location, a request to establish a merchant virtual storefront from the merchant device. The system provider device also determines the merchant physical location associated with the merchant device. The system provider device analyzes the request to establish the merchant virtual storefront including determining a merchant offering. The system provider device thus generates the merchant virtual storefront that includes the merchant offering and the merchant physical location. In addition, the system provider device provides the merchant virtual storefront to a customer device. | 10-29-2015 |
20150324878 | ONLINE GROUP SHOPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for allowing multiple users to collaboratively review and select items from one or more retailer servers, including receiving an indication to open a group shop from a first user with a second user at a shopping server, signaling to a second user that a first user has requested the shopping server to open the group shop, at the shopping server, opening the group shop between the first user and the second user, issuing a shop window user interface to the first user that includes a plurality of links to one or more retailer servers, and opening direct communication between the first user and the second user such that the first user's shop window UI is issued to a second user's shop window UI. | 11-12-2015 |
20150339741 | LOTTERY SYNDICATE SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a lottery syndicate system. The system includes a server for receiving confirmation of a lottery syndicate member, with a mobile internet device, being at a geographic location to qualify as a member of a lottery ticket syndicate. Typically, the geographic location is a store which has increased patronage by virtue of the lottery syndicate members being at that location. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339742 | SOCIAL PRODUCT PROMOTION - Methods and apparatus are disclosed regarding an e-commerce system having social networking aspects. The e-commerce system leverages such social networking aspects to help promote the sale of products. | 11-26-2015 |
20150348147 | VOLUME PRICING SEARCH - A volume pricing system includes a search engine operable to present volume pricing offers to buyers. Buyers utilizing the search engine supply criteria relating to product descriptions, purchasing terms, offer features or the like. The search engine retrieves volume pricing offers from one or more sellers in accordance with the supplied criteria. Furthermore, mechanisms are provided to enable the search engine to discover new offers posted by sellers on other systems. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348148 | GUIDED PROCUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A guided procurement system for guiding the buyer for procuring when the item to be purchased is not present in the catalog database, which is an integration of a procurement tool, supplier information system tool and supplier performance system tool. The system includes a processor unit and a computer readable medium storing instructions executable by the processor unit, including a first procurement guiding module that is adapted for guiding the requester for procurement when the item is not available in the catalog database, and a second procurement guiding module that is adapted for guiding the procurement team or the buyer for procurement from the right supplier. The system is adapted for guiding the buyer while procuring by suggesting the source of procurement based on the user provided information on a web form. It further guides by suggesting the supplier from which a particular item can be procured. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356650 | COST OPTIMIZATION OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES USING COLLABORATIVE ORDER GROUPING - Requests are received from each of a plurality of purchaser remote computing systems that each specifies at least one product or service to be provided to one of a plurality of purchasers. Based on the received requests a plurality of grouped orders can be generated that each group and aggregate products and services common to two or more of the received requests. At least one supplier that can offer products or services to fulfill the grouped order can be identified for each grouped order. Order solicitations for each grouped order can be transmitted to at least one supplier remote computing system associated with the corresponding identified at least one supplier. Bids to supply the products or services specified in the order solicitation can be received for each grouped order in response to the transmitted order solicitations. The bids can be parsed into proposals corresponding to each purchaser. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356651 | Method for group purchasing pricing with dynamic pricing - Method pertains to a system of entities that make purchases and interact either synchronously or asynchronously into a group that exercises collective buying power. It provides a process whereby individual entities can enter the group at a specified price and receive a rebate as new entities enter the group. The method is useful because of its transparency, sustainability, and ability to provide economic benefits equitably to all stakeholders and incentives to entities in the group to market the group and recruit individuals to join the group. Move over, the structure of the system improves upon the standard coupon scheme as well as the bid and offer system. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363847 | STORES IN ON-LINE MALL WITH COMMON FACADE - A method for providing an on-line mall with multiple communities. The method provides multiple communities within an on-line mall environment. Multiple stores are provided within each of the multiple communities, with each store being associated with a merchant with merchandise directed to its community. At least a partially common façade is provided for multiple stores within a particular community. | 12-17-2015 |
20150371298 | GROUP BIDDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - This invention concerns a group bidding system and method capable of aggregating conditional purchase offers of at least one product from multiple buyers and communicating such conditional purchase offers to one seller or multiple sellers of said product, comprising a central control system, a database, a buyer interface, a seller interface, a credit verification interface, and a payment interface. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379596 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING BUYERS AND SELLERS - A system for matching buyers and sellers, and in particular, a system that matches database representations of purchase “Intentions” from one or more buyers with items listed as available in a database representing sellers' inventory. In some embodiments, the buyers' Intentions are pooled into a “Groupbuy” that a single Seller can fulfill. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379597 | NETWORKED BIDDING TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods here may be used for conducting computer network transactions, via at a server computer in communication with a network and a database. Such examples may include receiving merchant information from merchant/bidders, categorizing the received merchant information, storing the merchant information and the associated category in the database, receiving a need from a user/buyer computer, identifying a category that the received need fits into based on the categories of merchant information, posting the received need information so the merchants identified for that category may access the posted need information and allowing the merchant/bidders to bid on the received need. | 12-31-2015 |
20160012500 | HOSTED DEMAND AGGREGATION | 01-14-2016 |
20160012501 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED NETWORK PURCHASE QUEUE | 01-14-2016 |
20160027078 | Group buying search - A group buying system includes a search engine operable to present group purchasing events to consumers. Consumers utilizing the search engine supply criteria relating to product descriptions, purchasing terms, offer features or the like. The search engine retrieves group purchasing events from one or more sellers in accordance with the supplied criteria. Furthermore, mechanisms are provided to enable the search engine to discover new offers posted by sellers on other systems. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MULTI-PARTY DYNAMIC BARTERING NETWORK - A method is disclosed of generating a computer-based, multi-party dynamic bartering network. The method includes: receiving, at a computer server, user supply information and user demand information from multiple parties over a computer network; generating multi-party barter loop options, using one or more processors, in response to a search request by a searching user, by analyzing the user supply information and user demand information; proposing multi-party barter loop options to the searching user over the computer network; receiving confirmation of the searching user joining a multi-party barter loop from the proposed multi-party barter loop options; and facilitating execution of the multi-party barter loop. | 02-04-2016 |
20160063583 | SHIPPING ALLIANCE - A system and method for a shipping alliance application are described. The system accesses orders from an online marketplace application. A group of buyers based on unfulfilled orders of buyers within a buyer predefined distance of each other is identified. A group of sellers based on unfulfilled orders of sellers within a seller predefined distance of each other is identified. A buyer local entity associated with the group of buyers is identified. A seller local entity associated with the group of sellers is identified. The system generates a request to a common seller of the group buyers to combine items from the unfulfilled orders into a single flat fee shipment to the buyer local entity, or a request to group of buyers to ship items from the unfulfilled orders to the seller local entity. | 03-03-2016 |
20160078507 | MAPPING PRODUCTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT TAXONOMIES - Techniques for mapping item listings from a first taxonomy to a second taxonomy are described. In an example embodiment, item listings from a first database storing a first taxonomy and item listings from a second database storing a second taxonomy are obtained. Then, for each of the obtained item listings, a plurality of features is extracted, including at least one feature related to an image associated with the item listing and at least one feature related to text associated with the item listing. Then a mapping between item listings in the first taxonomy and item listings in the second taxonomy is created based on the plurality of features extracted by the feature extraction component, wherein the mapping identifies which item listings in the first taxonomy correlate to a same product as which item listings in the second taxonomy. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078508 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE METHOD, USER END, AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE COLLABORATIVE SHOPPING - The present invention provides an information exchange method, a user end, and a system for online collaborative shopping. The method includes: sending a collaborative shopping request message that includes one or more user identifiers to a collaborative server; receiving a collaborative shopping startup message; submitting a shopping web page of the main control user to the collaborative server, and submitting, to the collaborative server, operation information generated when a user of the main control user end operates a shopping web page; and receiving operation information generated when a user on the collaborative user end operates a shopping web page according to a commodity feature concerned by the user on the shopping web page, and displaying, on the shopping web page, an operation result of the user on the collaborative user end for the shopping web page. | 03-17-2016 |
20160086239 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ALLIED PRODUCTS - The method comprises processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product, correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product, comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy, and determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group, creating product specifications based on the determined attributes and storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086240 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ALLIED PRODUCTS - The method comprises processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product, correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the product, comparing each identified product to categories of a taxonomy to determine a category for the identified products in the taxonomy, and determining attributes for each categorized product based on the product information records corresponding to each group, creating product specifications based on the determined attributes and storing the product specification in the corresponding determined categories of the taxonomy. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092949 | METHOD FOR IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF A PURCHASE ORDER BY INTERNET - A method for improved management of a purchase order comprises searching online for at least one product or group of products similar to each other to be ordered from a generic supplier and obtaining a confirmation of availability. The step of searching for the product to be ordered from the generic supplier can be extended to search for the product or the group of products or alternative products available at at least one alternative supplier. The product or group of products or the alternative products found at the alternative supplier are inserted into a shopping cart of the alternative supplier and compared with the product or the group of products of the generic supplier. The extension of the search is started automatically by a search and compare software application authorized by the user and provided by the alternative supplier. | 03-31-2016 |
20160104221 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING SELLERS TO CREATE AND MANAGE OFFERS TO SELL PRODUCTS OR SERVICES TO GROUP BUYERS FOR A DISCOUNTED PURCHASE PRICE - A computer implemented system and method enables sellers to create and manage offers to sell products or services to group buyers for a discounted purchase price. The system and method also allows buyers to create buying groups independent of the sellers' offers for services or products. A buyer can register with the sale promoter and gain access to any number of offers to sell, the offers having discounted pricing, made by the seller. A typical offer to sell will have an expiration date, the quantity of items to be sold, and the price by which the items will be sold. By leveraging the power of group buying, the buyers can join a group formed by a seller or a buyer to receive a discounted price on an item. Further, buyers can rank one another thereby enabling or limiting access to certain groups to certain buyers. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110783 | Experience Sharing for a Registry Event - Disclosed herein are methods and corresponding systems for facilitating a live registry event between a shopper and one or more remote viewers. In the live registry event, the shopper, registers for gifts that they would like to receive while sharing their registering experience with the viewers in real-time. When the user registers for an item, a server system allows the viewers to purchase the gift for the shopper. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117742 | Collaborative Activities in On-Line Commerce - Computer based systems and methods allow collaborative shopping for and/or designing of (e.g., customization) consumer products, such as articles of footwear, apparel, athletic equipment, etc., by plural users using different computing devices. The users' computing devices may be in communication with one another in various manners, such as over networked connections (e.g., a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), an internet connection, etc.); via peer-to-peer communications; through a common server or combination of servers that establish a communications link; etc.). The various parties may participate in an on-line or other computer communicative session to create and buy customized products. Additionally, user interfaces for providing these collaborative sessions are described. | 04-28-2016 |
20160155162 | Systems and Methods for Online Interactive Social Shopping | 06-02-2016 |
20160155163 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CO-CLIENTIZATION FOR ACCESS TO URGENT NEEDS FULFILLMENT SERVICE | 06-02-2016 |
20160162960 | COLLECTIVE NETWORK OF AUGMENTED REALITY USERS - Embodiments of the invention provide for using video analysis, such as augmented reality or the like to assist a group of users to utilize mobile devices for creating a collective network environment of users that identifies objects in which one or more users in a group of users may be interested, and notifies the one or more users of information associated with the object. A collective network comprises a group of users that each have a mobile device that contains or is otherwise operatively coupled to a data capture device. For example, the mobile device may be a mobile phone that is capable of taking video with a camera device. A user in the collective network may capture video on his mobile device, and an application can identify the object in the video and provide interested users in the collective network with information about the object. | 06-09-2016 |
20160171570 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PAYMENT, DATA MANAGEMENT, AND INTERCHANGES FOR USE WITH GLOBAL SHOPPING CART | 06-16-2016 |
20160171571 | PLANNING DEVICE AND PLANNING METHOD | 06-16-2016 |
20160189266 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR RULE-GUIDED AUTONOMOUS GOAL ACHIEVEMENT - Technologies for autonomously determining conditions to achieve a goal include determining a goal to be achieved, determining a pool of available resources usable to achieve the goal, determining a set of rules to be satisfied to achieve the goal, updating the pool of available resources based on the determined set of rules, and determining the conditions required to achieve the goal utilizing resources from the updated pool of available resources that satisfies the set of rules. A set of final conditions may be determined to achieve a set of multiple goals. The goals, rules, and resources may be provided by a user, an agent of the resources, or otherwise determined or inferred by the disclosed system. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196594 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products For On-Line Gifting | 07-07-2016 |
20160379284 | Landlord-Tenant-Property Matching System and Matrix - A system and method for better allocation of rental properties and matching of tenants and properties, especially in a competitive marketplace, is presented. In some aspects, an automated system processes prospective applicant renter applications, refines and unifies property listings, and matches the parties and properties according to a fair, economic model including bids by tenants on properties for which they qualify. The system and method permits stress-free and organized and uniform viewing of the properties and bidding on the same without chaotic and unfair first-come-first-served practices and other unfair leasing practices found in the industry. Also, fair market pricing is more easily achieved, which gives feedback to lessors. In addition, uniform executable lease agreements are generated according to the results of the matching process. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN GROUPING REQUESTERS - Some embodiments provide systems and method of establishing competitive seller markets, comprising: establishing a first product group exclusively associated with a first product; providing potential buyers with access to group build interface information; receiving requests from a plurality of buyers requesting to join the first product group; joining the plurality of buyers to the first product group; providing potential sellers with access over the distributed network to group bid interface information; and receiving a plurality of different seller bids requesting to be selected as the seller for the first product group. | 12-29-2016 |
20180025400 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SEARCHING ASSISTANT | 01-25-2018 |