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| 20100332344 | ALTERNATIVE SELECTIONS FOR COMPOUND PRICE QUOTING - Methods and systems for automated alternative selection for compound price quotes are provided. A requesting party submits a request that includes information regarding at least one specification. A database is searched based on the information provided by the request. The search results are evaluated to determine whether they meet a predefined target. When the search results do not meet a predefined target, an alternative specification is identified. At least a second set of search results is retrieved from the database that may be used to meet the target. Vehicles are selected for inclusion in a compound price quote. A compound price quote including multiple price quotes for each selected vehicles is generated. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332345 | AUTOMATED PRICE QUOTE GENERATION - Methods and systems for automated price quote generation are provided. A requesting party submits a request that includes information regarding a geographic location and at least one specification. A database is searched based on the information provided by the request. A price quote is automatically generated based on at least the results of the search and provided to the requesting party. The requesting party may be a potential customer, a dealer, or a third party acting on behalf of the potential customer or dealer. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110016017 | Interactive Internet Platform for Assessing and Executing Residential Energy Solutions - A dynamic, fully-integrated computer-server-based platform (platform) provides users with tools for making informed decisions about available energy upgrades and for implementing desired home energy upgrades. In various embodiments, the platform provides various combinations of: (i) a variety of educational and assessment tools, including a Virtual Home Energy Audit (VHEA), which provides users with a customized home energy-savings plan detailing the financial and/or environmental impact of each upgrade alternative on a relative and absolute basis, (ii) product selection and purchase, (iii) access to arrangement and scheduling of in-home services through a network of professionals, (iv) financing solutions, and (v) a data registry that verifies completed upgrades and associated savings. The platform takes a holistic view of energy solutions, and provides tools across a broad spectrum of energy-related products and/or services. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110022492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING SERVICES AND/OR CONTENT IN A NETWORK COMPRISING MULTIPLE SERVICE AND/OR CONTENT PROVIDERS - One or more processors and/or one or more circuits in a user device may be operable to communicate a request for desired content to content and service providers. Bids may be received, responsive to the request, for providing the desired content to the user device and/or other devices. The request may initiate a parallel bidding process between the content and service providers. Bids to provide and/or deliver the desired content may be received from content and/or service providers by the user device. A profile of the end user device may be configured for automatically generating the capability and/or requirements in the request, and may be stored in the end user device. The end user device may include a handheld wireless device. Delivery of the content may be at a desired price and/or at a desired time. The request for content may be submitted via a website. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110029400 | NO AUTHENTICATION PAYMENT AND SEAMLESS AUTHENTICATION - A easy authentication or payment is made by creating an account associated with a particular web browser or device that accesses an on-line page. Payments are made, such as for full-access viewing of an article or viewing content without visible ads, by selecting a payment button on the on-line page. Selection can be with a specific swiping motion or device motion previously defined for the user. Once selected, the payment is made without the user having to authorize or authenticate. The motion can be used independently to authorize or authenticate the user through the device. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029401 | Method Of Providing Online House Or Office Decor Related Service - A method for an on-line home decor service community includes: providing a database; entering pictures or data into the database that provides a definition for one or more interior or exterior spaces, and décor-related items; indicating one or more of the items to renew or replace or change; offering a selection of pre-packaged or pre-rendered designs and a price for the indicated item; offering, contests, discounts, advise, and product information as a part of the community and offering access to the database from a browser-based device. The décor-related items include custom room or space designs, furniture arrangement, flooring selection, lighting, art and accessories plans, draperies selection, paint color selection, fixtures, plantings, architectural embellishments, landscaping and finishes item in a residence or office space. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110060657 | ON LINE WEB PORTAL FOR PRIVATE NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS - A web-enabled user interface is provided to enable the carriers of private networks to interact and to offer services to one another. The web-enabled user interface is integrated to a switch fabric configured to provide interconnection services for the carriers. The web-enabled user interface is configured to enable the carriers to assign different roles to different representatives. Each of the representatives is granted certain rights and permissions by an administrator representative based on the representative's role. The web-enabled user interface is configured to present to each representative a unique interface based on their roles thus providing each representative a unique experience. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110071918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND EVALUATING NETWORK COMMODITIES PURCHASING - Comparison values are calculated for evaluating a commercial transaction. A request for quote received from a buyer agent includes a product specification data set that identifies items that differ in accordance with at least one parameter. Price data sets received from seller agents identify items and prices in response to the product specification data set. At least one of the price data sets identifies an item having a different parameter value as compared to the item in another price data set. A comparison value for each price data set is generated by determining a price total from the price data set and calculating a summed market price total by summing market price totals for each of the items. Calculating market price totals includes obtaining metric data indicative of market prices. The summed market price total is compared to the price total for the price data set to generate the comparison value. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110093356 | COST ESTIMATION SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND USER INTERFACES FOR CONFIGURABLE ELECTRICAL PANELS - Computer implemented systems, methods and user interfaces facilitate a nearly instantaneous ability to provide detailed cost estimate information and price quotes for complex and highly configurable products tailored to meet user defined specifications such as electrical control panels for electrical power systems. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110112925 | Method and system for only sales and purchases - Internet-based commercial network connects multiple qualified participant buyers and sellers. Items are made available for defined periods of time, referred to as an event ( | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110145089 | REAL-TIME RIDE SHARE SYSTEM - A method of organizing the sharing of vehicle trips includes receiving a ride request from one or more riders, wherein the ride request includes a rider location and a rider destination, identifying a beginning waypoint and an ending waypoint for vehicle travel, determining a vehicle route based on the beginning and ending waypoints, choosing a rider whose rider location or rider destination is geographically closest to the determined vehicle route, presenting the rider location and rider destination of the chosen rider to the driver, and if the driver accepts, sending a notification to the chosen rider alerting the chosen rider of the acceptance. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110166952 | FACILITATING DYNAMIC CONSTRUCTION OF CLOUDS - In an embodiment, a customer sends a set of requirements for a cloud to a cloud complier, which identifies vendors matching the set of requirements. Information on the matching set of vendors is provided to the customer, thereby enabling the customer to select desired vendors for constructing the cloud. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110166953 | DYNAMIC ORDERING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATERIAL USAGE AND LABOR PRICING - A system and method for calculating graphite material usage and labor pricing including the following parameters: category, material, class, dimensions, and quantity. The information is used for improved efficiency via web-based graphite purchasing. The method takes into consideration the additional labor cost when very small dimensions are entered which require special work holding containment. The process requires that the user make a selection for each of the parameters so a validation step can occur ensuring the desired product can be manufactured and an accurate labor charge or quote can be provided. During the calculation step, the labor surface area is applied to the labor cost based on the calculated surface area which is derived from a second degree equation derived by a linear regression curve that is applied to the labor cost based on the calculated surface area. After the calculation step the price each and total quantity price is returned. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110184829 | DENTAL PRODUCTS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for improved dental instrument manufacturing and customer-driven dental instrument design. In one embodiment, there is provided a dental products manufacturer computer unit comprising a display; a connection to a communication network; at least one memory component; product data stored on the at least one memory component; and a plurality of program modules stored on the at least one memory component. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110218875 | MULTIPLE-PLATFORM ESTIMATING AND AUTOMATIC QUOTING FOR NETWORK-BASED PARTS RESALE WITH TRANSFERABLE REPORTS - A part location system is described that utilizes computer-based techniques for bringing together repair facilities and suppliers to increase the efficiency of locating recycled, used or aftermarket parts using a computer network, such as the Internet. The part location system receives an estimate from a first user over a communication network. The part location system then parses the estimate to extract information that identifies a list of parts needed by the first user and automatically generates a request for quote (RFQ) using the information extracted from the estimate. The part location system then sends the RFQ to suppliers via the communication network. Subsequently, the part location system receives quotations from at least one of the suppliers via the communication network in response to the RFQ and presents the quotations received in response to the RFQ to a repair facility via the communication network. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110225062 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY RESPONDING TO ELECTRONIC REQUESTS FOR QUOTE - Embodiments of the components and processes for recording selected Web site data described herein adhere to long-term stability guidelines so as to improve maintainability and viability over time. Additionally, the data recording components can be placed within a software architecture to minimize the number of redundant data recording components. Furthermore, the data recording components can be tailored to specific data recording purposes. Additionally, the data recording components can be designed to take into account system performance issues and minimally impact system performance. Furthermore, the data recording components can be tailored to gather specific data useful for various analytical processes. Additionally, embodiments of the data recording components are relatively easy to implement and able to handle idiosyncrasies and changes of various Web sites in which they are placed. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110238522 | AUTOMATING INVENTORY MANAGEMENT OF CONSUMER ITEMS - A method and system for automating the management of an inventory of consumer items at a consumer location uses a programmed device that accepts input data and executes control logic for automating inventory management. At least one shopping list is received, a shopping list trend is established, and a smart list is generated with the control logic, in accordance with the shopping list trend, such that the smart list predictive of a next shopping list. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110246322 | System and Method for Intelligent Product Configuration and Price Quotation - A system and method for integrating sales personnel and engineering staff in an organization includes automatically generating design specifications for a proposed system by displaying a predetermined sequence of inquiries tailored to known design parameters. In response to the inquiries, the system and method generates required design specifications and other materials, including a pricing quotation, for the designed system. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110251917 | PERFORMING PREDICTIVE PRICING BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA - Techniques are described for using predictive pricing information for items to assist in evaluating buying and/or selling decisions in various ways, such as on behalf of end-user item acquirers and/or intermediate item providers. The predictive pricing for an item may be based on an analysis of historical pricing information for that item and/or related items, and can be used to make predictions about future pricing information for the item. Such predictions may then be provided to users in various ways to enable comparison of current prices to predicted future prices. In some situations, predictive pricing information is used to assist customers when purchasing airline tickets and/or to assist travel agents when selling airline tickets. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110276426 | Methods and systems for facilitating aircraft parts manufacturing - A computer-implemented method for facilitating manufacturing of aircraft parts, the method comprising: gathering from a user, via a first computer, the user's aircraft information; gathering, via the first computer, a specification for an aircraft part; soliciting, via a second computer, at least one quotation from a supplier to supply the aircraft part; and ordering the aircraft part based on the quotation from the supplier. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276427 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PREPARATION OF QUOTES AND PROPOSALS - A system includes a proposal engine configured to present quotes and/or proposals to customers at a network site. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110307347 | Bid Evaluation Device and Communication Network System and Method - A bid evaluation system delivers an evaluation report of an estimated bid of a project. One or more client evaluation device can access a bid evaluation server over a communications network. The bid evaluation server controls a database of metadata representing new projects, such as construction, supply or other projects open for bids in response to requests for bid, and historical projects of similar type and project details. A client evaluation device, authorized for access to the system, communicates over the network to the bid evaluation server an identifier recognizable to the bid evaluation server corresponding to a new project. The bid evaluation server searches the database for contents corresponding to project items of historical projects related to project items of the new project. The bid evaluation server calculates an estimated bid of each project item of the new project and a total estimate bid of the new project. The bid evaluation server reports the estimated bid of each project item and the total estimate bid of the new project over the network to the client evaluation device. The client evaluation device can also communicate to the bid evaluation server a historical identifier corresponding to one or more historical projects. The bid evaluation server searches and variously calculates and/or reports historical bids of the project items. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110320305 | ALTERNATIVE SELECTIONS FOR COMPOUND PRICE QUOTING - Methods and systems for automated alternative selection for compound price quotes are provided. A requesting party submits a request that includes information regarding at least one specification. A database is searched based on the information provided by the request. The search results are evaluated to determine whether they meet a predefined target. When the search results do not meet a predefined target, an alternative specification is identified. At least a second set of search results is retrieved from the database that may be used to meet the target. Vehicles are selected for inclusion in a compound price quote. A compound price quote including multiple price quotes for each selected vehicles is generated. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120022965 | GEOLOCATION BASED BIDDING SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS - A system, methods, and apparatus for geolocation based bidding are disclosed. In an example embodiment, sales data regarding geolocation availability information and item and/or service information is stored. A consumer may provide a request for a response by inputting machine readable data including an identifier into a mobile device, and the request includes geolocation data of the mobile device. Bids may be requested from sellers determined based on the identifier, the geolocation data, and the sales data. Bids including a price and availability may be received from sellers based on the consumer request. A bid response may be provided to the consumer mobile device with at least one bid that is binding a seller for a period of time. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120030057 | Automatic traffic generation for a faring system - A faring system includes a production facility including at least one fare shopping server, a staging facility including at least one fare shopping server, and an entry point for conducting bi-directional communications with customers. The staging facility further includes a database storing transformation rules and a traffic generation subsystem configured to receive a transaction via the entry point from a customer, to determine if the received request is one suitable for use in generating simulation data for the fare shopping server of the staging system and, if so, to modify the received transaction in accordance with at least one rule retrieved from the database to create at least one modified transaction, and to send the at least one modified transaction to the fare shopping server of the staging facility for processing. The fare shopping server of the staging facility processes the modified transaction for evaluating a potential new or modified functionality of the faring system. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120041837 | PAPER CALCULATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system and method to provide a price calculation for e-commerce related sales by utilizing a plurality of paper characteristics to determine final prices. The present invention utilizes at least four inputs including paper type, width, length and sheets to return to potential online e-commerce users a price calculation for a particular order. Additionally, the system may allow the individual user to select paper type, length and sheets, then utilizes a multiplication factor which is stored in a remote database which calculates a MWT value and returns to the user the final price calculated for their particular order. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120041838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AND OTHER USES - A computer implemented method including steps of: storing, at a central server, an initialize business rule associated with a vendor and a DNS associated with the vendor; receiving, from a user a first user query for a product or service of the vendor; dynamically forming a universal code sequence forming a DNA field, having at least fields for a user identity, a transaction scope and a product definition; receiving, from the vendor a first vendor response based upon execution by the vendor of the initialize business rule; receiving, from the user a second user query; dynamically adding to the universal code sequence to form a request DNA; receiving from the vendor a second vendor response; dynamically forming an offer DNA; determining if the offer DNA matches the request DNA; and sending to the user and to the vendor a notification that the offer DNA matches the request DNA. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120047044 | Method to Develop Search Engine Optimized Content Through a Web-Based Software Platform - The present invention is a web-based software platform used to implement a method for purchasing the highest quality content possible, for the lowest possible market driven prices, from the most qualified profession writer possible. Writers are able to setup an account and log on to the present invention in order to take on projects to develop content for a client or a marketing agency. Thus, the present invention allows for a marketplace of writers. Both an individual client and a marketing agency can setup an account and log on to the present invention in order to post projects. Individual clients post projects for content that they need to be written, while marketing agencies post projects for content that their clients need to be written. Marketing agencies are able to manage multiple projects for multiple clients on the present invention. Individual clients and marketing agencies are also able to set a price on how much they are willing to pay the writer to produce the content. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120059732 | Online Marketplace - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facilitating aggregated market transactions. In one aspect, a method includes receiving inventory data from sellers, where the inventory data specifies an ask price for a particular product and a discount function associated with the product. User input is received from users, where the user input requests information about a particular product. In response to the user input, data are provided that cause presentation of a product request user interface. Bids for the particular product are received from multiple users, and a final price is selected using ask prices, discount function, and bids. In turn, the particular product is allocated to a set of users that specified a bid that meets the final price. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059733 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE - A method for having a mobile price transaction system including comparisons. The system obtains information about prices and transactions involving products and services in real time over a wireless link. The actions include making a price comparison inquiry to a central server for the product, service, or price information. The inquiry is formatted in the central server for transmission to sources of the information such as vendors or their web sites. After receiving a response from the sources, the response is suitably formatted and is displayed on the mobile unit. The information will often be available locally on the central server, but the present invention includes commanding remote sources to provide an action such as a response, including a response at a desired time or for desired conditions. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120072299 | REQUEST-FOR-PROPOSAL (RFP) SYSTEM WITH SELECTIVE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION FROM COMPETING BIDDERS - One exemplary embodiment is directed to a method (and corresponding system) for managing a request-for-proposal (RFP). The method comprises receiving, at a website, information about the RFP from a customer for the RFP and receiving, at the website, proposals responsive to the RFP from a set of bidders. If requested by the customer, disclosing to each of the bidders a detailed comparative metric relating to the proposal for each of the other bidders. The detailed comparative metric comprises a comparative metric other than a total project cost for the respective proposal. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120084173 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY PRICING PEERISHABLE GOODS - Method for dynamically pricing perishable goods with objective of selling all items before point in time any remaining items become worthless, the method comprising:
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| 20120089474 | AUTOMATED AUTOMOBILE MAINTENANCE USING A CENTRALIZED EXPERT SYSTEM - A system includes a database that stores an expert knowledgebase, and one or more servers configured to implement an expert system. The one or more servers receive sensor data associated with sensors from automobile maintenance systems associated with respective ones of multiple automobiles, and analyze the sensor data, using the expert system and the expert knowledgebase, to diagnose whether the multiple automobiles require maintenance and/or repair. The one or more servers send, via a network, results of the analysis of the sensor data to service stations for scheduling maintenance and/or repair of the multiple automobiles. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089475 | Method and Apparatus for Assessing Residential Customer Pre-Installation Criteria - A method and apparatus for assessing residential customer pre-installation criteria for installation of an electrical appliance. The method includes providing a user with a variable set of questions and options concerning the location and environment in which the electrical appliance is to be installed. The questions may vary depending on the responses provided by the user. The response provided by the user is interpreted to provide the user with an estimation of the cost, time, and/or feasibility of installing the electrical appliance in a location specified by the user through the responses given to the questions and options. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089476 | Conditional Purchase Offer Management System - A conditional purchase offer (CPO) management system is disclosed for receiving CPOs from one or more customers, such as airline passengers, and for evaluating the received CPOs against a number of CPO rules defined by a plurality of sellers, such as airlines, to determine whether any seller is willing to accept a given CPO. A CPO rule is a set of restrictions defined by a given seller, such as an airline, to define a combination of restrictions for which the seller is willing to accept a predefined price. The CPO rules may be securely stored by one or more servers. The CPO management system permits a seller to correct for forecasting errors, if necessary, or other competitive forces which have produced excess capacity, by providing inventory for sale to CPO customers. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120109774 | INTEGRATED CLOUD BASED MARKETPLACE SERVICES - Cloud based services are provided enabling electronic data interchange between suppliers and consumers of goods and services with the integration of business tools for finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics and electronic commerce. By providing a compatibility layer to these business tools between various suppliers and consumers of goods and services, workflows can be extended with cloud-based services and automatic supply-demand matching provided based on constraints specified by the suppliers and consumers. Real-time (event-driven) order fulfillment can be implemented through the cloud based services. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120116911 | Data Valuation Estimates in Online Systems - A request for a valuation of a data set is received, over a network, from a requesting user. A plurality of valuation elements associated with the data set are identified, using a data processing system. A data valuation estimate is determined, using the data processing system, for the data set using the plurality of valuation elements. A representation of the data valuation estimate is transmitted, over the network, to the requesting user such that the representation of the data valuation estimate is caused to be displayed on a display device associated with the requesting user. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116912 | METHOD AND SYSTEM USING A SECURE COMPUTER NETWORK FOR MATCHING CUSTOMERS AND VENDORS - A secure computer network, competitive offer system, and associated methods for facilitating the exchange of confidential information between service vendors and consumers with a reasonable expectation of privacy. In an embodiment, the methods and systems comprise using a secure computer network for facilitating the exchange of confidential information between vendors and consumer in service or service/good hybrid industries. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116913 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTING FREIGHT FORWARDING COMPANIES - A system and method for selecting freight forwarding companies is provided wherein bids for shipping lanes and the like are received well in advance of a freight move. Bids are submitted on shipping lanes and other move associated transactions by pre-approved freight forwarding companies. This information is stored in a database. Selection of the freight forwarding company or companies occurs in connection with evaluating the bid information submitted and historical data stored on the database. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120123894 | Decentralized Transportation Dispatching System and Method for Decentralized Transportation Dispatching - A method for decentralized transportation dispatching is disclosed. The method bypasses utilizing a centralized dispatch call center and includes announcing a transportation requirement via broadcasting directly by at least one user, and replying to the transportation requirement with a plurality of competitive bidding information directly from a plurality of transportation providers who are capable of providing a passenger-carrying service or providing a goods-carrying service. The method further includes selecting one transportation provider from the transportation providers according to a request from the user, in which the selecting is performed through referencing the bidding information replied to by the transportation providers. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120130844 | AUTOMOTIVE DIAGNOSTIC AND ESTIMATE SYSTEM AND METHOD - The method provides users with estimates for vehicle repairs. The user, typically the vehicle owner, provides details sufficient to identify the vehicle, and location details to enable the system to locate suitable mechanics and replacement parts, and determine labor costs and times. The user may provide symptoms of the problem, and the system provider automatically determines the likely cause of the symptoms. Once a diagnosis has been generated, local labor and replacement auto part prices are automatically located, and a repair estimate automatically calculated. The estimate, along with a list of local mechanics with interest or expertise in the particular type of repair, is then automatically communicated to the vehicle owner. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120143716 | NETWORK-BASED COMMERCE FACILITY OFFER MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Various embodiments include systems, methods, and software to manage offers in a network-based commerce system. One embodiment includes providing sellers an option when listing an item for sale to receive best offers for the item from buyers. This embodiment further includes receiving best offers submitted by offerees via the network-based commerce system and notifying sellers of received best offers. Some embodiments further include providing sellers an option to accept, reject, or ignore the individual best offers received. In some such embodiments, ignored best offers expire after a period, such as 48 hours. Yet further embodiments include notifying offerees of acceptance or rejection of their submitted best offers. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120166302 | 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. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120179570 | Total Cost Management System, Method, and Apparatus - A total cost management system including a user interface having: (i) selectable options to facilitate building a total cost template including at least one section having a plurality of variables associated therewith; (ii) selectable options to facilitate at least one of the following: creating, deleting, manipulating, configuring, changing, modifying, moving, or any combination thereof, at least one of the at least one section and at least one of the plurality of variables; and (iii) selectable options to define at least one total cost unit price for: at least one item, at least one group of items, at least one assembly, at least one group of assemblies, at least one sub-assembly, at least one group of sub-assemblies, at least one lot, and/or at least one service wherein the at least one total cost unit price is defined by a formula including a plurality of the variables in at least one section. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120233012 | MULTIPLE-PLATFORM ESTIMATING AND AUTOMATIC QUOTING FOR NETWORK-BASED PARTS RESALE WITH TRANSFERABLE REPORTS - A part location system is described that utilizes computer-based techniques for bringing together repair facilities and suppliers to increase the efficiency of locating recycled, used or aftermarket parts using a computer network, such as the Internet. The part location system receives an estimate from a first user over a communication network. The part location system then parses the estimate to extract information that identifies a list of parts needed by the first user and automatically generates a request for quote (RFQ) using the information extracted from the estimate. The part location system then sends the RFQ to suppliers via the communication network. Subsequently, the part location system receives quotations from at least one of the suppliers via the communication network in response to the RFQ and presents the quotations received in response to the RFQ to a repair facility via the communication network. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120253967 | DIGITALLY BASED SYSTEM FOR LEASE PROPERTY SELECTION AND LEASE NEGOTIATION - A system and method are provided to maximize the number of participants submitting proposals for requirements of all sizes and to increase transparency in property selection to aggregate more data regarding potential lease properties earlier than current practice, qualify candidate properties for lease, expedite and standardize a request for proposal (RFP) process to use the increased transparency to include not just rent, but other costs and lease provisions respecting candidate lease properties, and negotiate a lease for a target candidate property. Additionally, the system and method preferably enable a simultaneous reverse auction process with various potential Lessors on either or both the financial or qualitative lease terms and conditions increasing the outcomes for the Client Operator/Lessee. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120259725 | System and Method for Selling Products and Services via a Network of at Least Three Computer Systems - A system and method allows one or more users to purchase an offering of goods or services using at least three computer systems, by one user making a proposal for the two to jointly consume the offering, and the other user accepting the proposal. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120265634 | Buyer-Driven, Online Methods and Systems for Purchasing Motor Vehicles and Related Services - Buyer-driven methods of purchasing a motor vehicle include one or more buyers, each buyer composing a buyer-specific offer to purchase a motor vehicle and optionally motor vehicle-related services. Each offer is based on an individual buyer willing price that is based on an individual buyer perceived value of the motor vehicle and related services, and one or more buyer-specific conditions imposed on purchasing a motor vehicle within the set of motor vehicles. Buyers register with, and communicating their respective buyer-specific offer to, a website hosted by a computer server, the website accessible by network-connected devices of the buyers. One or more website-registered sellers communicate their respective seller conditions to the website, and software in a system server filters the buyer-specific offers. The sellers may accept, decline, or make alternative responses to the website, which ranks the seller response for buyers. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120271729 | Method and System for Managing Sourcing Program Requests - A method for managing sourcing requests. The method utilizes a computer interface to collect the sourcing request and present that sourcing request to a sourcing agent. The method also utilizes a computer interface to allow the sourcing agent to initiate and conduct a sourcing protocol that provides a list of results from which the sourcing agent can select the most appropriate sourcing solution for an organization. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer medium with instructions to collect sourcing request data, determine whether the sourcing program needs modification and modifying the sourcing program. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271730 | ELECTRONIC QUOTES AND PROPOSALS INCLUDING ITEM FEEDBACK - A system includes a proposal engine configured to present quotes and/or proposals including a plurality of selections to customers at a network site. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120284143 | PROXIMITY BASED ONLINE MARKETPLACE - A online marketplace that can connect nearby buyers and sellers in a time-sensitive and efficient manner. The system can enable users who want something to connect with nearby users who can provide that something by utilizing automatically detected location data from the users' computing devices. The system can allow both buyers and sellers to post listings, and can also allow listings to define multiple quantities of an item or service and allow multiple offers to be made and accepted on such listings via an auction mechanism. The system can improve the efficiency with which buyers and sellers can quickly find each other by not allowing users to submit offers on listings with price changes that degrade the listing. The system can also improve the efficiency with which buyers and sellers complete their transaction by facilitating a peer-to-peer payment process with dispute resolution controls. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120296765 | SYSTEM FOR SALES, PRICING, AND SOURCING SPONSORED MATERIALS TO TARGET MARKET - A system and method for providing customized or personalized memorabilia to end users, wherein the system allows the price for the customized or personalized memorabilia to be established by obtaining the lowest production costs from approved vendors, and further allowing such costs to be offset by any sponsorship underwriting of the memorabilia. The system further allows establishment of advertising to target demographic audiences by underwriting customized or personalized memorabilia orders and placing advertising indicia for the sponsor on or with the ordered customized or personalized memorabilia. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120303474 | VEHICLE TRADE BANKING SYSTEM - A vehicle trade banking system for dealers and wholesalers that buy and sell automobiles, boats, motorcycles, and other vehicles that uses an application software system that accepts, distributes and stores vehicle data, price quotation data and vehicle condition data to facilitate the banking of vehicle trade-ins allowing dealers to confirm a buyer for a trade-in and thereby accept a trade-in from a consumer interested in purchasing a newer vehicle from the dealer. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303475 | PROVIDING QUOTES FOR FITNESS EQUIPMENT - Disclosed are various embodiments for providing quotes for fitness equipment. A selection of a property type, a number of property units, and a specification of a fitness room size are obtained from a user. A first user interface is generated for obtaining a selection of fitness equipment from the user. The selection of fitness equipment is obtained from the user via the first user interface. A quote is automatically generated for providing fitness equipment to the user. The quote is based at least in part on the selection of fitness equipment, the fitness room size, the number of property units, and the property type. A second user interface is generated for presenting the quote. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120316981 | HIGH-RISK PROCUREMENT ANALYTICS AND SCORING SYSTEM - A procurement analysis system may include a network interface to interface with one or more data sources over a network to receive procurement data and a data storage device to store model building data sets determined from the procurement data. A model generator module may determine procurement scoring models from the model building data sets, and a procurement risk analysis module may determine an evaluation capacity to review bids for a procurement, and evaluate bids for the procurement based on the procurement scoring models and the evaluation capacity to identify high-risk procurements associated with the evaluated bids. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120323722 | SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING SALES LEADS - A subscriber-based sales leads exchange system for efficiently maximizing revenue to lead sellers and for providing high quality, temporally relevant sales leads to lead buyers based on a transaction between a lead seller and a customer of said lead seller. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130013441 | TRANSACTION SERVICES REVERSE AUCTION - A reverse auction platform for selecting a transaction service is provided. The platform may include a database configured to store a request for a transaction service and to store fee bids corresponding to the transaction service. The platform may also include a memory configured to store execution instructions as well as a processor coupled with the database and the memory. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may be configured to cause the processor to receive a request for a transaction service; to present the request; and to select a transaction service based on a fee bid corresponding to the transaction service. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013442 | REAL TIME CONFIGURATION AND PROVISIONING FOR A CARRIER ETHERNET EXCHANGE - An Ethernet switch platform is configured to receive and process a provisioning order to establish a logical virtual circuit interconnecting a physical port associated with a buying carrier and a physical port associated with a selling carrier to set up a private network to private network connection between the buying and selling carriers. The virtual circuit is established with parameters called for in a request for quote (RFQ) initiated by the buying carrier and in a response to the RFQ submitted by the selling carrier. Information from the RFQ and from the response together with information previously stored in a relational database is extracted and used to fill out the provisioning order. The information extracted from the database include profile information and network service information associated with the buying and selling carriers. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130013443 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A REVERSE AUCTIONING RECRUITING EXCHANGE - An internet-based competitive pricing and bidding transaction system includes one or more transaction processing servers that interface and communicate over the internet with client computer systems of prospective online recruiting organizations, recruiting and staffing professionals and a plurality of related information databases. The transaction processing system handles online communications and procedures for conducting reverse auctions for delivery of staffing services and maintains a registration database of service providers and prospective customers of those services (recruiting organizations). Information relative the performance of the service provider is collected for each transaction and is used to create an automated recommendation that is provided to the requester of a staffing service, which results in the selection of a unique and exclusive service provider. Methods for managing collaboration among service providers are provided, which include notification, sub-provider selection and fee splitting management. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130018753 | ON LINE WEB PORTAL FOR PRIVATE NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS - A web-enabled user interface is provided to enable the carriers of private networks to interact and to offer services to one another. The web-enabled user interface is integrated to a switch fabric configured to provide interconnection services for the carriers. The web-enabled user interface is configured to enable the carriers to assign different roles to different representatives. Each of the representatives is granted certain rights and permissions by an administrator representative based on the representative's role. The web-enabled user interface is configured to present to each representative a unique interface based on their roles thus providing each representative a unique experience. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130024316 | ONLINE SERVICE METHOD - The present invention relates to an online service method. The online service method is performed on an online service system including at least one server. The method includes the steps of receiving, with the online service system, bids from service providers in relation to a service to be performed for a customer, receiving, with the online service system, acceptance of one of the bids by the customer and notifying, with the online service system, a parts supplier of one or more parts required for the service to be performed. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024317 | Charitable Giving - A method for identifying charitable organizations to receive the proceeds generated from the sale of merchandise includes communicating information to purchasers of the merchandise including a price, identities of charities to which donations can be allocated, and a donation amount. An offer to purchase the merchandise and the identities of two or more charities to which the donation is to be allocated is received. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130046651 | Gaming Marketplace Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The GAMING MARKETPLACE APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“UBGER”) transform user site navigation inputs via UBGER components into systematically-defined user behavior-based game exchange recommendations and offers. In one embodiment, the UBGER obtains activity logs including data on actions taken by a user within a website. The UBGER extracts user behavioral attributes based on analyzing the obtained activity logs, and queries a database for identifications of electronic games associated with the extracted user behavioral attributes. The UBGER queries a database for electronic games owned by the user, and identifies inactive electronic games from among the electronic games owned by the user, based on the activity logs. The UBGER generates an offer including a recommendation for trade-in of one of the identified inactive electronic games in exchange for the purchase of one of the electronic games associated with the extracted user behavioral attributes, and provides the generated offer to a client device of the user. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130080284 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF OFFERING A COLLECTION FOR SALE - A system and method of offering a collection for sale is disclosed. A collection input module may receive a description of a collection and description of items in the collection from a device of a seller. A collection sale module may offer the collection for sale by publishing a description of a sale of the collection as a whole according to a first offering type. An item sale module may offer the items in the collection for sale by publishing descriptions of the respective items in the collection concurrently with the offer for sale of the collection as a whole according to a second offering type. A comparison module may, upon conclusion of an offering period, compare a sum of bids for the respective items to a bid for the collection as a whole and to determine whether the collection is sold as a whole based on the comparison. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130085884 | BUYER/SUPPLIER NETWORK COLLABORATION AND BIDS POLICY - Embodiments of method, systems and apparatuses for dynamic collaboration of a buyer/supplier network are disclosed. One method includes providing a buyer with a catalog or non-catalog item. A collaboration request is submitted by the buyer, thereby initiating a negotiation with one or more suppliers. The collaboration request is provided to the one or more suppliers. A proposal is received from at least one of the suppliers, and the buyer provides an acceptance or a rejection to each received proposal. An embodiment further specifies that the buyer collaborate with at least N suppliers, wherein N is selected by the buyer. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130085885 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PHOTOVOLTAIC PLANT MARKET EXCHANGE - Systems and methods for providing a photovoltaic market exchange that permits registered users to create a request for quote (RFQ) for photovoltaic plant services, receive current RFQs, or submit a bid on an RFQ are disclosed. In one embodiment, the market exchange provides a contract management system. In one embodiment, the market exchange is integrated with a plant asset management platform that is configured to evaluate various aspects of a photovoltaic plant ecosystem. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130097047 | AUTHENTICATION SERVER - An apparatus for use as an authentication server can include a first interface configured to communicate with a first user. The apparatus can also include a second interface configured to communicate with a second user. The apparatus can further includes an authentication controller configured to authenticate the first user based on a first deposit of a first item, authenticate the second user based on a second deposit of a second item, transfer the first deposit to a first pool, wherein the first pool contains a plurality of the first item, transfer the second deposit to a second pool wherein the second pool contains a plurality of the second item, authenticate an exchange transaction between the first user and the second user, transfer a third item from the first pool to the second user, and transfer a fourth item from the second pool to the first user. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097048 | Consumer-to-Business Exchange Marketplace - Systems and methods for implementing an item exchange service are usable to aid users in exchanging old items for newer items. According to one embodiment, a system can be operable to receive a request to present a vehicle in a marketplace, calculate a base exchange value for the vehicle and provide, to one or more vehicle resellers, marketplace information associated with the vehicle. Additionally, the system may be configured to receive an exchange offer for the vehicle, determine a final exchange value of the vehicle, and provide the final exchange value of the vehicle to a seller of the vehicle. Further, the system may be configured to allow the seller to determine a course of action regarding disposing of the vehicle after conclusion of the exchange marketplace. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130124360 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED PRICING - Systems and methods for generating location-based retail pricing options are discussed herein. In an example, a method for generating location-based retail pricing options includes receiving, over a network from a user, a pricing request. The pricing request includes information identifying the user, a merchant, and an intended purchase. In this example, the method further includes determining a pricing option associated with the merchant and the intended purchase, and transmitting the pricing option to the user. The method still further includes processing a purchase transaction, associated with the user, for the intended purchase based on the pricing option. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130144746 | METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR THE GENERATION OF REQUESTS FOR QUOTES FROM AGGREGATED CONSTRUCTION-RELATED AND PERMITTING INFORMATION - A computer-implemented method may comprise accessing a database comprising construction permitting information over a computer network; collecting construction permitting information for a plurality of construction projects from the accessed database and storing the collected construction permitting information. Each of the construction protects may be associated with a respective identified party. Information corresponding the plurality of construction projects may then be aggregated into a plurality of aggregated requests for quotes (RFQs), which may be stored in an RFQ database that is selectively accessible over the computer network. One or more vendor offers may be received against one or more of the aggregated RFQs. The vendor offer may be only selectively visible to the respective identified parties associated with the constructions projects against which the vendor offer has been received. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130144747 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING A MARKETPLACE SERVICE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for operating an exchange service for renewable energy resources. In one embodiment, an exchange service, implemented on an exchange entity server, maintains a database of pre-approved assets. The exchange server can operate a marketplace, allowing other provider entities to place a bid for installing the renewable energy setup at a location associated with the asset. Examples of the provider entities include a developer entity, a manufacturer entity, a financier entity, etc. In embodiments, the marketplace enables interaction among the provider entities to enable the provider entities to develop and place a composite bid for a selected asset available through the marketplace. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130151367 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING A VOLUME AND REVENUE MAXIMIZING RETAIL SALES PLATFORM - Computer-implemented methods and systems of providing a volume and revenue maximizing retail sales platform is provided. In some embodiments, a sales offering of one or more comparable items associated with a vendor(s) is transmitted, by a network server, to a plurality of potential buyers. Purchase offers are received from each of a plurality of interested buyers during a sales offer period. A first average purchase offer is determined by an application computer processor, comprising an average of at least a portion of the purchase offers received. The first average purchase offer is compared with a sales trigger price associated with the vendor(s). A sale is executed to each interested buyer whose purchase offer was included in the first average purchase offer, when the first average purchase offer is within a predefined range associated with the sales trigger price, and when a first predefined volume of purchase offers have been received. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130159130 | Method of Electronically Conducting Virtual Exchange Under Negotiation of Goods and Services in a System Over a Communication Network - The invention relates to a method of electronically conducting virtual exchange under negotiation of goods and services in a system over a communication network, the system comprising: web server displaying the detailed data in respect of exchangeable commodity or services; a hand-held device enabled to access the web server via internet, the device having at least one input means, a processor, and a display means; and a client node configured to communicate in real time through the web-server with the hand-held device, the method comprising the steps of inputting a base data by the hand0-held device via the internet, the data representing selection of one a commodity and service; the features including price of the Selected Commodity or product displayed on the web server transmitted to the hand-held device in the form of animated characters; transmitting an offered price data to the client node through the web Server by the hand-held device, determining the acceptability or otherwise of the offered price of the client node and retransmitting via the web server the result of said determination to the hand-held device; and transferring the commodity or services under the agreed condition upon selection of settlement terms on consideration criterion to the user of the hand-held device by the user of the client node. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159131 | INTERACTIVE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL AND RESPONSE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - An interactive request for proposal and response analysis system and method whereby a user may use a user workstation to access a list of subjective characteristics for buildings and enter user specific preferences for at least some of the subjective characteristics. An agent may use an agent workstation to select buildings for receiving requests for proposals, where the requests for proposals each includes the list of subjective characteristics, and send the requests for proposals to landlords for the buildings. The landlords may use at least one landlord workstation to receive and access the requests tor proposals and each landlord may enter a response for each subjective characteristic, where the entered responses for the subjective characteristics. The entered user specific preferences are compared with the entered landlord responses for the subjective characteristics for each of the plurality of buildings and a score is calculated for each building based on the comparison. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130166404 | MERCHANDISE TRADING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A merchandise trading system and method is disclosed. In one embodiment, a server may randomly assign inventory items to a plurality of customers and notify the customers of which items they have been assigned. The server may provide an interface by which the customers may negotiate trades of assigned items. At the end of a trading session, the items may be distributed to the customers to whom the items are assigned at the end of the trading session. The server may assign items in a random manner, or items may be assigned such that each customer receives a set of items with a minimum value. The server may provide an interface by which customers may select one or more items that are assigned to them to carry those selected items over to another trading session. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130173412 | Method And System For Controlling Freight Bidding - A system and method for bidding freight transportation is disclosed. The system and method includes means for comparing bids and determining differences in the bids from different carriers based on a number of different input parameters. The system and method also includes means for comparing bids to a historical baseline and as the bidding process goes through an iterative process. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130191237 | Displaying Values Specified in a Number of Offers for a Number of Offer Variables with Respect to Price - A method for displaying values specified in a number of offers for a number of offer variables with respect to price includes receiving data for multiple offers that reflects values specified in the offers for multiple offer variables and generating a display of the received data. The display includes multiple offer variable windows that are each associated with an offer variable. Each offer variable window includes an offer price axis representing a range of offer prices and an offer variable axis substantially perpendicular to the offer price axis that represents a range of values for the offer variable associated with the offer variable window. Each offer variable window includes multiple bars. Each bar represents a value specified in offers for the offer variable associated with the offer variable window and is positioned with respect to the offer price axis according to an offer price specified in the offers. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191238 | AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION - An agreement is negotiated on behalf of a first party. A region ( | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130198026 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN EVENT MARKETPLACE - A system and method for an event marketplace. The system comprises a first interface for communicating with a plurality of user devices; a second interface for communicating with a plurality of systems of service providers; a progressive accuracy module for at least iteratively computing a set of total cost estimations of the event based in part on an event specification and information retrieved from one or more of the plurality of systems of service providers; and a cost optimizer for providing at least an optimal set of service providers matching the event specification, wherein the optimal set of service providers is ranked by their total cost estimations, the total cost estimation is a function of at least a proposal for a respective service. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198027 | INTELLIGENT INFORMATION LIFE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR CONSUMERS - The invention generally relates to consumer product lifecycle maintenance and systems and methods therefor. The invention generally involves receiving and storing a consumer registration of a tangible asset, matching a provider to the consumer based on a later-arising maintenance need associated with the asset and/or follow-on items related to the asset such as accessories, consumables, direct replacements and similar items, and relaying a communication from the provider to the consumer. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130218711 | Message Types for Customer Quote and Customer Quote Request - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a customer quote and/or a customer quote request business object. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130226725 | RESPONSES TO REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS - Various embodiments are described relating to systems for responding to RFPs and processes for making the same. The systems can include a container storing multiple recordable media containing information for responding to an RFP. The recordable media can be of different types. The information stored in each recordable media can be the same or only a portion of the information stored in each recordable media can be the same. The container and recordable media can be configured to identify the recipient of the system using, for example, colors, logos, words, structures, or the like (or combinations thereof). | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226726 | PURCHASING, REDEMPTION AND SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WHEREIN A BUYER TAKES POSSESSION AT A RETAILER OF A PRODUCT PURCHASED USING A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Purchasing, redemption and settlement systems and methods are provided to communicate with a buyer to establish a first price for a product. The purchasing system may also arrange for the buyer to take possession of the product at a retailer, different from the seller, that offers the product for sale at a second price. The buyer provides a payment, based on the first price, to the purchasing system in exchange for the right to take possession of the product at the retailer. The purchasing system transmits redemption information to the buyer. The redemption information may include information that enables the creation of a voucher to be used when taking possession of the product. The purchasing system may also receive information related to an attempt by the buyer to take possession of the product from the retailer. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226727 | APPLICATION FOR BUYERS TO OPTIMIZE SAVINGS WHEN SHOPPING FROM MULTIPLE SUPPLIERS - An automated bid management process speeds up the comparison of product pricing from multiple suppliers. The process and system of the present invention can determine the optimal order combination to result in the greatest savings to the buyer. The bid management process allows suppliers to submit their pricing directly into an application. Buyers have the ability to create a personal marketplace within the system and have select suppliers bid for their business. Submitting the orders can be fully automated and the application can provide controls and reporting system to allow full control and personalization of the process. The system and methods can take all the predetermined information in the system, such as minimum orders, delivery data, buyer preferences, and the like, and automatically award the order to the supplier(s) that offer the greatest savings to the buyer. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130238462 | MULTI-SYSTEM DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING OF DELIVERY SERVICES - Various systems and methods that may relate to referral and/or delivery services are described. Some embodiments may include communication using a payment processing device. Various other embodiments are described. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130246211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE TRADE IN VALUE QUOTATIONS - A system and method for providing a trade-in price quotation to a mobile device. The system receives from the mobile device a quote request including information associated with at least one characteristic of the mobile device, such as the make and model of the mobile device. The system interprets the information to identify the at least one characteristic of the mobile device and sends the at least one characteristic to a pricing database that returns a mobile device value amount based at least in part upon the at least one characteristic of the mobile device. The system calculates a trade-in price quotation based upon at least the mobile device value amount and sends the trade-in price quotation to the mobile device. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246212 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE TRADE-IN VALUE QUOTATIONS AND COMPARISONS AGAINST OTHER MOBILE DEVICES - A system and method for providing a trade-in price quotation to a first mobile device and comparing the first mobile device against a second mobile device. The system receives from the first mobile device a quote and compare request including information associated with a characteristic of each of the mobile devices. The system receives a mobile device value amount for the first mobile device based upon the information associated with the characteristic of the first mobile device, calculates a trade-in price quotation based upon the mobile device value amount for the first mobile device, and receives a retail price of the second mobile device based upon the information associated with a characteristic of the second mobile device, to calculate a net price of the second mobile device, and sends the trade-in price quotation and the net price to the first mobile device. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246213 | USING RATE-SENSITIVITIES TO PRICE DOWNLOADS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for providing content. The method comprises receiving a query from a client device, and responsive to the query, identifying search results including one or more resources. The method further comprises, for at least one resource, determining, a size of a data transfer required to access the one resource. The method further comprises providing the search results including providing a label associated with the one resource indicative of a rate-sensitive cost to download the item including determining a true cost to download the item from at least one carrier, determining a price sensitivity of the user or a group of users to which the user belongs based on an evaluation of historical information for downloads and costs incurred for each, and calculating the rate-sensitive cost based on the true cost and determined price sensitivity. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130254059 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BATCH- LISTING ITEMS STORED OFFLINE ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Embodiments of computer-implemented systems and methods for listing on a marketplace an item, or batch-listing a plurality of items, previously stored on a mobile device. One example embodiment comprises receiving a request from the mobile device for a price estimate for the prospective sale of an item or a plurality of items and subsequently receiving a request to list the item or a plurality of items. The listing process may include receiving images of one or more items, receiving data associated with the one or more items, and using the data, listing the one or more items on the marketplace. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254060 | 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. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254061 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATION OF REMOTE INSPECTORS - A method and a system to automatically coordinate remote inspectors are provided. Initially, a listing is identified for remote inspection in an online publication system. The listing may describe an item for sale that is, in turn, associated with a geographical location and a category. One or more remote inspectors are identified based on the geographical location and the category associated with the item for sale. The listing and respective profiles of each of the one or more remote inspectors is published to a buyer. A selection of a selected remote inspector is received from the buyer. A template inspection report is provided to the selected remote inspector. Once the remote inspector has inspected the item for sale, the buyer is provided a completed inspection report received from the selected remote inspector. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130262258 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING AND FILTERING PROFESSIONALS BASED ON USER INPUT AND ACTIVITY AND INTERFACING WITH PROFESSIONALS WITHIN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY - Systems and methods for selecting a tax professional. In an embodiment, one or more search criteria are received from a user. In addition, rating information is generated and associated with each of a plurality of professional users. The plurality of professional users may be filtered based on the one or more search criteria and the rating information to identify a subset of one or more professional users. The identified subset of one or more professional users is then provided to the user. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130268388 | AT HOME SERVICE QUOTATION PLATFORM AND METHOD - A quotation service platform customer service calls comprises a mobile device in wireless communication with a remote server. The server tracks the progress of the service call, provides a quotation for specified products to be installed, generates and delivers a contract to the device and supports scheduling of an installation. The server also provides a records management utility accessible from the device. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130268389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFERING MULTIPLE PRODUCTS - A system and method for a supplier to offer multiple products to a first person and multiple pre-owned products to a second person is disclosed. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130275253 | METHOD AND COMPUTER MEDIUM FOR FACILITATING A BUYER-INITIATED FEATURE WITHIN A BUSINESS TRANSACTION - A system and method for conducting electronic business between buyers and sellers is provided. The system and method disclose a means for at least one buyer to request and receive online bids from one or more sellers of a particular product according to a price curve or price schedule. A price schedule or curve for a product defining a product's unit price as a function of the volume of product ordered. Upon receipt of a plurality of bids from sellers, a buyer can then select a seller-supplier based at least in part on the price schedule. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130282509 | SALES LEAD GENERATION SYSTEM FOR A COMPANY IN A SERVICE INDUSTRY AND RELATED METHODS - A sales lead generation system for a company in a service industry is disclosed. The sales lead generation system may comprise a master database for storing information for customers of the company, and a mobile device for communicating sales lead information for service work to the master database. The sales lead information may include identifying information for the customers and at least one media file indicating an anomaly condition at a location of the customer. A related method and computer-readable medium are also disclosed. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282510 | Splitting of User-Lists - Systems and techniques are described for splitting user-lists. A described technique includes obtaining a master user-list, the master user-list including object identifiers that are respectively associated with web clients; obtaining a splitting factor that controls a splitting of the master user-list; creating a reduced user-list from the master user-list based on the splitting factor such that the reduced user-list maintains a statistical fidelity of the master user-list, the reduced user-list including fewer than all of the object identifiers included in the master user-list; and providing the reduced user-list. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282511 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING, SCHEDULING, AND PURCHASING PROJECT SERVICES - An online system and method for a computer or web-based system enabling users to estimate, schedule, and purchase a variety of home-related services from a trusted group of professional contractors. The system manages a list of prescreened, reputable, and local contractors. Through the present invention, consumers may find local contractors, obtain real time competitively priced quotes from contractors for their services, schedule work to be preformed, and pay or finance the cost of the service. Contractors may also purchase subscriptions tied to U.S. postal codes or zip codes from which they will receive all leads of consumers needing services originating from that postal code for the services they offer. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282512 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SELECTING AN AGENT - A method of selecting a real estate company using a computer-based network ( | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282513 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EXPONENTIAL EXPANSION OF COMMERCE - A system and method for turning a buyer into a prospective seller in an electronic marketplace. After the buyer enters into a binding agreement to purchase an item, the buyer is provided with an option of re-listing the purchased item for resale. The purchased item is re-listed if the buyer opts to re-list it. An ecommerce listing to sell the purchased item is automatically generated based on the previous listing. The user only needs to provide the selling price to complete the listing. The purchased item can be re-listed in the same marketplace where the item was purchased or in a different marketplace. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130290127 | System and Method for Enabling Sales Requests and Offers from Multiple Buyers in Online Environment - Methods and systems for selling and purchasing items in an online environment, including a set price purchase process and a negotiated price/value purchase process. The system presents to a potential buyer one or more specific product(s) which is/are available for immediate purchase at a pre-set price; provides the potential buyer with the option to request sellers to offer product(s) at a lower price (which may be set forth by the potential buyer), and/or offer the product(s) with different options, and/or to offer similar product(s); and provides sellers with the opportunity to offer the product and/or options to the potential buyer at the requested price/with the requested option, and/or to make offers to the potential buyer to provide the product(s) at different price(s) and/or with different options and/or to provide a different but similar product. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290128 | Methods and Systems to Evaluate and Rank Bids Based At Least in Part on the Provider's Past Performance - The application discloses systems and methods for evaluating bids submitted by providers in response to a reverse auction process initiated by a buyer. The disclosed system determines an attribute utility score of the bid and total performance scores of providers based on the past performance records of the providers. The total performance scores of providers are determined by computing a positive deviation score, a negative deviation score, a performance among peers score, and a bid performance score of the provider. The system further sums the determined attribute utility score and the total performance score to obtain a rank of the submitted bid. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290129 | MULTIPLE-PLATFORM ESTIMATING AND AUTOMATIC QUOTING FOR NETWORK-BASED PARTS RESALE WITH TRANSFERABLE REPORTS - A part location system is described that utilizes computer-based techniques for bringing together repair facilities and suppliers to increase the efficiency of locating recycled, used or aftermarket parts using a computer network, such as the Internet. The part location system receives an estimate from a first user over a communication network. The part location system then parses the estimate to extract information that identifies a list of parts needed by the first user and automatically generates a request for quote (RFQ) using the information extracted from the estimate. The part location system then sends the RFQ to suppliers via the communication network. Subsequently, the part location system receives quotations from at least one of the suppliers via the communication network in response to the RFQ and presents the quotations received in response to the RFQ to a repair facility via the communication network. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130297441 | COMMERCE SERVER ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD FOR USING SAME - A commerce router is disclosed. The commerce router includes a plurality of commercial transaction databases and an application server module. Each of the databases can contain commercial transaction information related to one of a number of offering types (e.g., categories of products, services and/or the like). An application server module is communicatively coupled to the each one of the databases. The application server module can be configured to receive a request by virtue of being configured to communicate information regarding the request to the database for inclusion in the commercial transaction information and allow review of the request by virtue of being configured to communicate information regarding the request from the database by accessing the commercial transaction information. application server module can be configured to receive a response and allow review of the response. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297442 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING AND TRACKING REAL ESTATE LEADS - Systems, methods, and software for improving communications between real estate professionals and clients or potential clients are provided. The systems and methods are designed to provide improved lead routing and tracking mechanisms, as well as means to provide analysis. The system and method includes a virtual agent communication platform that associates a virtual telephone number to a real estate lead, and manages communication between a real estate agent and the real estate lead. The system and method can further be designed to adjust lead routing decisions and optionally enable tracking of analytics about lead follow up and lead management. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297443 | Transaction Arbiter System and Method - A transaction arbiter system and method is disclosed which incorporates a merchant function database under control of a transaction arbiter that permits merchants to interact in an automated way with bids generated by other merchants. Rather than utilizing fixed price schedules as taught by the prior art, the present invention permits each merchant to define a set of functions which describe how the merchant will respond to a customer request-for-quote for a given product or service. These merchant functions interact with both the customer request-for-quote and the results of other merchant functions to generate a dynamic real-time bidding system which integrates competition among merchant bidders to achieve an optimal consumer price for a given product or service. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297444 | Barter for Rights - Selling intangible property rights may include receiving content from a seller and determining one or more potential purchasers for the content's intangible property rights. The potential purchasers may be determined according to the subject of the content, the audience for the content, and the intangible property rights being sold. An offer to sell the intangible property rights may then be transmitted to one or more potential purchasers, along with a portion of the content. Upon receiving the one or more purchaser's acceptance of the offer, a complete copy of the content may be transmitted to the purchaser. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130304602 | Marketing Methods - A method of marketing automobiles (other high priced products) to a plurality of parties (individuals) includes using a micro-chip-based computing device (computer), for example, at least one computer and at least one internet website associated with the at least one computer, to obtain information from a plurality of parties regarding the identity of one or more automobiles each party wants and is willing to purchase; and processing the information to identify a particular automobile which is willing to be purchased by at least a minimum number of the parties from whom the information is obtained. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304603 | GENERATION OF A DEMANUFACTURING PRICE QUOTE - A system for generating a price quote to demanufacture a lot of electronic equipment is disclosed. Representative equipment groups are defined which include default values, based upon knowledge and experience, and study values, based upon dismantle studies. When a quote is requested to demanufacture a given lot of equipment, the equipment in the lot is categorized into representative equipment groups. As profit or loss is calculated for each equipment group, if study values are available, the study values are used; otherwise default values are used. Pricing contingency and profit may further be calculated to generate the price quote. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130311319 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SALES GENERATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH A VEHICLE DATA SYSTEM - Embodiments of sales generation, including sales generation employing reverse lead generation using vehicle data systems and methods, are presented herein. In particular, in certain embodiments a user may utilize the vehicle data system to obtain pricing data corresponding to a desired vehicle configuration. When the user is presented with the pricing data associated with the specified vehicle configuration the user may additionally be presented with an upfront price offered by a dealer, where by providing their personal information the user may obtain the name of the dealer offering the upfront price and may additionally be offered the opportunity to purchase the desired, or similar, vehicle at the upfront price. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311320 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC REAL-TIME ITERATIVE COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS OVER THE INTERNET IN A MULTIPLE-BUYER, MULTIPLE-SELLER MARKETPLACE OPTIMIZING BOTH BUYER AND SELLER NEEDS BASED UPON THE DYNAMICS OF MARKET CONDITIONS - A method of communications network shopping by buyers of products and services for purchasing such from sellers in which buyers request an automatic reverse auctioneer or auction controller to initiate a reverse auction in real time amongst willing sellers and to it their automatic real-time iterative bidding price quotations for such products and services to be returned automatically over the network back to the controller under the iterative processing guidance of the controller to assure a best bid price quotation for the buyer; and automatically effecting buyer notification or purchase at such best price, all while the buyer may remain online, and without any manual intervention. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130317934 | Method for Soliciting Invitations to Offer for Unique Items Including Real Property - An ecommerce application for soliciting invitations to offer whereby a buyer or lessee, creates an account with a website based Controller, and a seller or lessor enlists in a subscription service with the Controller. The Controller creates an algorithm driven email distribution process comprising a plurality of emails sent to appropriate subscribers including vendors that contain an invitation to make an offer based on the information in a buyer's query. Subscribers then submit invitations for offers directly to the buyer or to the Controller for viewing by the buyer. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130317935 | REVERSE AUCTION SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A reverse auction system of the present disclosure is provided and includes an account module, a server center, a searching module, a publishing module, and a bidding module. The account module registers or charges a desired article request from a buyer side. The server center converts the desired article request into publishing data and searching data. The searching module connects to at least one auction website for collaborating therewith to perform comparison in accordance with the searching data, and then returns a feedback signal of a comparison result. Furthermore, the publishing module publishes the publishing data, and then the bidding module offers a platform to the suppliers or bidders to bid for the buyer's desired article described in the publishing data. The work of the publishing module and the bidding module is in parallel with the work of the searching module. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130332301 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAKING OFFERS BASED ON CONSUMERS' PRICE DISCRIMINATION - Techniques are provided which allow users to view historical price information for a product, and which allow users to specify a desired purchase price. Historical price information may be collected and displayed to the user in a graphical format. The user may specify a desired purchase price that the user is willing to pay for the product. The user provided price may be presented to a seller of the product. The user may be targeted with an offer to purchase the product at the user provided price or may be targeted with advertisements or recommendations for a similar product. Some techniques include targeting a group of users including the user with the offer if the group of users includes at least a predetermined number of users, where each user in the group provided the user provided price. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332302 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING SOURCING OF STRATEGIC RESOURCES - A computer-based method and system for management of sourcing of strategic resources for commercial entities is described. Internet/intranet-based portals are accessible by an administrator and one or more respondents representing prospective vendors to enable an administrator to create requests for information, proposals and/or quotations (RFx), and for respondents to submit responses to an RFx by answering questions presented in the RFx. The system also generates reports based on criteria established by the administrator and/or the commercial entity for which the RFx has been issued, using data compiled and/or generated from the answers provided by the respondents to the RFx. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332303 | NETWORK SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE MONITORING AND MARKETPLACE - A method, system, and network for interfacing the work-flow monitoring and reporting of a host computer, a local network of information technology devices, a community of network users, and third party vendors is provided. This includes processes and systems for initiating an inventory, including software, of a plurality of information technology devices associated with a local network of information technology devices from a host computer and determining the operational status of the information technology devices associated with the local network. The operational status of the information technology devices associated with the local network is monitored and presented to a host computer. Needs relating to the local network are identified and determined and a purchasing platform for purchasing product solutions from third party vendors is provided. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130339174 | Energy efficient homeownership mortgage program - A program for encouraging homebuyers and current homeowners to purchase more efficient HVAC equipment at the time they purchase a home or refinance a home loan is described. Realtors, bankers, lenders, mortgage brokers, and like individuals involved in the purchase or refinancing of a home present an opportunity to purchase energy efficient HVAC equipment to a client at a time when the purchase price of the equipment can be included in the mortgage or refinance loan. The realtors, bankers, lenders, mortgage brokers, and other individuals presenting the opportunity to the client act as marketers or salespeople for the program and the new equipment. These new salespeople work with a facilitator who coordinates the efforts of everyone involved in the transaction. The program provides the client with lower total homeownership costs through utility and maintenance savings. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339175 | ON DEMAND INFORMATION NETWORK - In one example, a user interface may be configured to receive input from a hosting device, a transmitter may be configured to solicit competing bids to subscribing devices for a requested service based on the input from the hosting device, a queue may be configured to store bids from third-parties in response to the transmitted request for bids for the requested service, and a receiver may be configured to receive a manifestation of the requested service from one of the third-parties whose received bid was accepted. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339176 | Systems and Methods for Matching a Seeker with a Proffered Provider of an Urgent Goods or Service - A computerized urgent goods and services fulfillment system matches a seeker with a provider of an urgent service or goods (URGS). The fulfillment system includes a server and a database for storing provider profiles. The server proffers one or more providers of URGS requested by a seeker. The server may proffer additional service or goods associated with the requested URGS. The server confirms the seeker's selection of a provider. The server tracks at least one of proximal data and temporal data associated with the seeker and/or the selected provider. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339177 | EXPENSE TRACKING, ELECTRONIC ORDERING, INVOICE PRESENTMENT, AND PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for tracking and billing expenses throughout a transaction, such as the sale or management of a real estate property. In one embodiment, a budget is created that details expected incomes on the property and costs associated with the sale or management of the property. The budget may be developed in accordance with specifications, such as line item maxima or total budget maxima, developed by the owner of the property. After a vendor has delivered goods or services described in the budget, the vendor creates an electronic invoice. Payment is delivered to the vendor through an Automated Clearing House system. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140012697 | Intention Aggregation for Conditional Reverse Auction Scaled Purchasing - A system and method for intention aggregation for conditional reverse auction purchasing to achieve economies of scale. Non-binding purchase intentions are aggregated from a number of potential buyers by a computer system to generate a purchase statement. The purchase statement is used to solicit participation in and conduct a reverse auction among a number of potential suppliers. A supply offer from the winning bid is then used to make purchase conversion offers to the potential buyers. The supply offer includes a minimum purchase requirement to provide the necessary economy of scale for the supplier. Potential buyers place conditional purchase orders that are conditioned on achieving the minimum purchase requirement to activate the supply offer. Once the supply offer is activated, the conditional purchase orders are converted into binding purchase orders and secure transactions to address payment and delivery can proceed. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140012698 | Systems and Methods Wherein a Buyer Purchases Products In a Plurality of Product Categories - Systems and methods are provided wherein an indication of a plurality of product categories is received, each product category being associated with a plurality of products. For example, the indication of the plurality of product categories may be received from a buyer. Buyer offer information, including an indication of an offer amount associated with the plurality of product categories, is also received. A subset of the plurality of products is selected for each of the product categories, and an indication of the selected products is provided. The buyer's offer may then be evaluated. If the buyer's offer is accepted, the selected products may be provided to the buyer in exchange for payment of the offer amount. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140019288 | Supply Chain Management System and Method - A supply chain management system/method that incorporates a Customer Order Entry/Status Console (COESC), part/product quoting, vendor order fulfillment, manufacturer claims processing, transportation tracking, and integrated product advertising is disclosed. The disclosed system/method uses a COESC that permits decentralized deployment of customer orders to a plethora of potential vendors for potential fulfillment. Participating vendors may provide feedback pertaining to product pricing, availability, manufacturer incentives, and delivery timing to the COESC. Vendor product shipments to the customer may be tracked on the COESC utilizing a transportation tracking subsystem incorporating vendor delivery optimizations and mobile tracking of parts/products deliveries. A context-sensitive advertising subsystem integrating manufacturer claims processing may be implemented to permit promotion of vendor/manufacturer products and/or services to customers via the COESC. The system/method may incorporate/interface to customer scheduling/process flow software such as body shop management systems and the like. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019289 | System and Method for Bidding on Groups of Fee or Contingency Fee-Based Matters - A system may comprise: a web server for posting matters of clients for bidding by contingency professionals; a client matter engine for enabling a particular client to post a particular group of related matters and to select a particular contingency professional bidding on the particular group of matters to handle the particular group of matters; a professional bidding engine for enabling the particular contingency professional to review at least a portion of the posted matters and to bid on the particular group of matters; and a bidding exchange engine for enabling the particular client and the particular contingency professional to communicate without exchanging direct contact information. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140025527 | Automated Negotiation - A potential transaction between a first party and a second party involves multiple issues. A current offer made by the second party is received. A set of candidate counteroffers that satisfy a target utility value for the first party is identified. A counteroffer is selected from among the set of candidate counteroffers and presented to the second party. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140040063 | SYSTEM AND TAGGING MECHANISM FOR PROVIDING ON-LINE INSURANCE, INCLUDING MOVING INSURANCE - A system and method for providing moving insurance according to an automatically generated quote. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140046792 | Method for coordinating messaging between motivated buyers and listed sellers - An on-line venue in which buyers can anonymously communicate precisely what product or service they want to purchase by posting an interactive request that a number of sellers/service providers can then directly respond to according to one embodiment of the invention. Such embodiments may promote the buyers interests in directly matching their needs with qualified vendors. In contrast to what others provide, where the buyer has to search within each seller/service providers and then send their request. Embodiments of the present invention broadcast a buyer's needs to relevant/selected sellers/service providers. Such embodiments may take the burden from a buyer in finding the right products and services by self-qualifying the lead to proactive prospective sellers/service providers. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140052560 | TRANSACTION SERVICES REVERSE AUCTION - A reverse auction platform for selecting a transaction service is provided. The platform may include a database configured to store a request for a transaction service and to store fee bids corresponding to the transaction service. The platform may also include a memory configured to store execution instructions as well as a processor coupled with the database and the memory. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may be configured to cause the processor to receive a request for a transaction service; to present the request; and to select a transaction service based on a fee bid corresponding to the transaction service. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052561 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY RESPONDING TO ELECTRONIC REQUESTS FOR QUOTE - A system and method for efficiently responding to electronic requests for quote (“RFQ”). Through use, a user, such as a merchant, can automatically create and deliver an electronic RFQ response, without need for any interaction by the merchant. The merchant may establish certain criteria in order to allow the system and method to automatically respond to electronic RFQ's received by the merchant. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140058879 | ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR TRANSLATION SERVICES - A method, system, and computer program product for implementing an online marketplace for translation services is disclosed. A plurality of requirements is received from a client and are sent to one or more service providers. Further, service quotations from the one or more service providers are received. Based on the plurality of requirements and the service quotations, an estimate of quality of service is generated. Lastly, the service quotations and the estimate of quality of service are sent to the client. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140067585 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING LEAN PRICE OPTIMIZATION - Methods and systems for improving a cost determination for a job for a supplier are disclosed. A computing device may receive one or more job parameters for the job and one or more shop characteristics for a shop operated by the supplier. The computing device may determine a cost to perform the job in the shop based on the one or more job parameters and the one or more shop characteristics. The determined cost may be transmitted to the supplier. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067586 | Methods, Apparatuses, and Computer Program Products for Fulfilling Requests for Price Opinions - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for requesting and receiving price opinions for an asset such as a piece of real estate are provided. In response to a request for a price opinion for an asset, some or all of the data fields for a price opinion may be automatically populated. Optionally, a vendor may be provided with a work order including a partially populated price opinion, which the vendor may then fill in the remainder of the data fields thereof. Regardless, the completed price opinion may be delivered to the requestor. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140074645 | Bid Assessment Analytics - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for performing bid assessments and outputting bid assessment scores are presented. A bid assessment analytics system may retrieve a set of predetermined bid assessment questions relating to a bidding opportunity and present the bid assessment questions via a user interface. Answers to the bid assessment questions may be received and scores may be determined for one or more bid assessment factors. Bid assessment weights associated with specific organizations, users, and/or industries may be calculated and stored based on data input for previous bidding opportunities and the outcomes of the previous bidding opportunities. The applicable bid assessment weights may be retrieved and used to calculate the bid assessment factor scores and/or overall bid assessment scores for bidding opportunities. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074646 | Automated Negotiation - Offers previously accepted and offers previously made by one or more opposing parties in negotiations inform an assessment of the likelihood that a candidate offer will be accepted by an opponent in a negotiation. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140081794 | SMART ORDER ROUTER - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for order routing. One of the methods includes receiving a request for quote from a user, the request for quote indicating that the first user is to be anonymous during the negotiation. The method also includes selecting counterparties to receive the request for quote. The method also includes sending the request for quote to the selected counterparties absent revealing the identity of the user. The method also includes receiving prices from the counterparties, each price associated with a counterparty. The method also includes presenting the prices to the user. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140081795 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELLING ITEMS - A method for selling an item, the method including: (a) displaying to a user a web page that includes multiple vendor representations; each vendor representation being representative of a vendor that was previously selected by the user; (b) receiving from a user a vendor selection indicator; (c) receiving from the user a requested price for purchasing an item from the selected vendor during a predetermined period of time that is defined by the selected vendor; (d) determining whether to proceed in a selling process of the item to the user during the predetermined period of time in response to the requested price and to an availability of the item at the predetermined period of time for selling by the selected vendor; and (e) selectively proceeding in the selling process in response to the determination. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140095336 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VEHICLE VALUATION MANAGEMENT - The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for providing vehicle valuation management services on a computer system. The computer system includes a tangible storage medium readable by the instruction processing system and storing instructions for execution by the instruction processing system. The method comprises receiving a request from a client for a value quote of a vehicle, and determining the curb weight of the vehicle. The method further comprises determining estimated freight costs to obtain the vehicle, and sending the value quote of the vehicle to the client. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095337 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISEMENTS FOR EVENT-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING - A social network is associated with an event. The event is joined by individuals who have visibility of others joined to the event via a third party network or via the social network. Demographic data is collected on the individuals joined to the event based on their social behaviour. Demographic patterns are extracted from the demographic data and individuals are targeted for ads based on the demographic patterns. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095338 | MULTI-SOURCE CONFIGURATOR CONTENT PROCESSING FOR TERMS AND CONDITIONS DOCUMENT TO CONTRACT CREATION - An authored contract document can be created based on an existing RFx sourcing document such as a “terms and conditions” document. This RFx sourcing document can be the product of collaboration and editing by unrelated bidders, thus creating bidder-specific RFx documents. The authored contract document can be created using a rules-based multi-source configurator. This multi-source configurator can include in or exclude from the authored contract document clauses or edits that have been made to the RFx document. The multi-source configurator can replace text from the RFx document that is not typically found in or relevant to an authored contract document with contract-specific text that is not typically found in or relevant to an RFx document. The multi-source configurator can add, to the authored contract document, contract-specific text that is not contained within the RFx document. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095339 | ONLINE SERVICE METHOD - An online service method is performed on an online service system including at least one server. The method includes the steps of receiving, with the online service system, bids from service providers in relation to a service to be performed for a customer; receiving, with the online service system, acceptance of one of the bids by the customer; and notifying a service provider server of the online service system to order one or more parts required for the service to be performed. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095340 | ONLINE OFFER SYSTEM - An online offer system is directed toward methods and devices that allow a seller to enter information about the attributes of a non-fungible good based on parameter values provided on a database. In response, an automated purchaser issues a firm offer to purchase the good at a set price. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140100985 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING BUYERS AND SELLERS - A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for connecting buyers and sellers by scanning social networks, are described herein. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include scanning social network entries made by users on one or more social network. The method may further include identifying keywords from the social network entries that indicate a product available for sale and identifying keywords that indicate a potential purchase of the product. In some embodiments, the method may include determining the intent of a user to purchase a product. The method may further include determining a first user (e.g., a potential buyer) and a second user (e.g., a potential seller) are a match based on the two users referring to the same or similar products in one or more social network entries. In response to determining that the first user and the second user are a match, the two uses may be communicatively connected. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140108182 | AGGREGATE PROCESSING CONTROL SYSTEM - An aggregate processing plant for processing aggregate to a pre-determined specification within a particular gravel pit may include: a feed hopper, at least a first screen plant having a corresponding configuration and cooperating with the feed hopper, a first conveyor set cooperating with the first screen plant for conveying screened aggregate from the first screen plant, a first aggregate processing cooperating with the first conveyor set and downstream of the screen plant in a direction of flow of the screened aggregate on the first conveyor. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108183 | Task Exchange - Technology is described for task exchange. The method can include obtaining a task definition for a task having task details to be performed for a customer. A task value can be set for the task based on the task details. The task can be offered for exchange via an electronic exchange interface. A further operation can be exchanging the task between a first party and a second party based on the task value. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108184 | TRANSACTION-DRIVEN SOCIAL NETWORK - A transaction-based social network for a life science vertical industry is provided. A method for implementing the network includes creating an opportunity from input received by a user. The input specifies criteria with respect to the opportunity, a target user community, and a target subject. The method also includes identifying members of a target user community in the network based on the criteria, receiving from the user, criteria associated with an automated award feature, and posting the opportunity over the network to the members of the target user community. The method also includes receiving a response from at least one target member of the target user community, applying the criteria associated with the automated award feature to the at least one target member; automatically awarding, without input by the user, the opportunity to the target member upon determining the information satisfies the criteria associated with the automated award feature. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108185 | Methods and Apparatus for Knowledge Processing System - In exemplary implementations of this invention, a knowledge processing system performs decentralized knowledge acquisition from human experts. The system may store the acquired knowledge in a knowledge database. The system may include an AI expert system to apply computer reasoning to data stored in the knowledge database. The system may provide humanly perceptible outputs to human experts to increase the likelihood that the human experts will pay attention to requests for information or to other communications, contribute knowledge objects in response to a query, provide “high quality” information, tag knowledge objects in the database, or review knowledge objects. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108186 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS WHEREIN A BUYER PURCHASES PRODUCTS IN A PLURALITY OF PRODUCT CATEGORIES - Systems and methods are provided wherein an indication of a plurality of product categories is received, each product category being associated with a plurality of products. For example, the indication of the plurality of product categories may be received from a buyer. Buyer offer information, including an indication of an offer amount associated with the plurality of product categories, is also received. A subset of the plurality of products is selected for each of the product categories, and an indication of the selected products is provided. The buyer's offer may then be evaluated. If the buyer's offer is accepted, the selected products may be provided to the buyer in exchange for payment of the offer amount. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140114792 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SYSTEM - The exchange-driven electronic market system disclosed herein allows increasing volume and efficiency of transactions between buyers and sellers in a marketplace. An implementation of the electronic market system includes a method comprising receiving a plurality of sale offers, each sale offer including required revenue values required volume values for a product, determining an offered market price based on the plurality of sale offers, displaying the offered market price to a plurality of buyers, receiving from the plurality of buyers a plurality of conditional offers for purchases (COPs), and completing a plurality of sales transactions, if the combination of one or more of the plurality of COPs meets the combination of one or more of the required revenue values. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140122286 | BARGAINING THROUGH A USER-SPECIFIC ITEM LIST - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are described for providing an item list to a computer user. An item list is provided in which a plurality of computer users each have a corresponding item list into which a computer user can add entries for various item offered by vendors. Upon receiving a user-initiated indication to add an item to the computer user's item list, an entry is added to the item list along with a user amount indicative of an amount the user is willing to pay for the item. After adding an entry to the item list, a minimum price is determined from each of a plurality of vendors offering the item. A vendor (from the plurality of vendors) is selected and an offer is generated for the user on behalf of the vendor. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140129366 | SELF-SERVICE REAL ESTATE FRAMEWORK - A system for providing transparency in a real estate transaction is provided that allows buyers and sellers of real property to interact with each other legally, safely, and efficiently without requiring a traditional real estate agent. Sellers interact with the system to create listings, accept offers, make counter-offers, and hire experts as needed. Buyers interact with the system to find listings, make offers and counter-offers, and hire experts as needed. The system may have an integrated connection with platform partners that provide services such as seller authentication, advertising, or payment processing. Service providers may interact with the system to offer services relevant to a real estate transaction such as home inspection, repair, real estate legal counseling, lending, title search, or escrow services. Service providers may receive requests for quotes for service from buyers and sellers through the system, respond with bids, be awarded work, and paid though the system. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129367 | PRESENTING OFFERS TO USERS OF MOBILE DEVICES - The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture for interacting with a multiple criteria buying and/or selling system to conduct business electronically. In particular, the architecture can include a dynamic discount card that includes an information access component for receiving information. In addition, the dynamic discount card can include a presentation component for displaying information to a user via the dynamic discount card. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140136358 | SUPPLIER QUANTITY SELECTION - According to an example, a method for supplier quantity selection may include receiving a plurality of supplier offers for one or more items to be procured by a manufacturer, and determining whether the supplier offers include price uncertainty and a most favored customer (MFC) clause. Based on the determination that the supplier offers include price uncertainty and the MFC clause, the method may include evaluating the supplier offers by analyzing the price uncertainty and the MFC clause using a stochastic multi-stage model. The method may further include determining, by a processor, an allocation of all or part of each of the supplier offers to minimize purchase price of the one or more items based on the evaluation of the supplier offers. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140156442 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SERVICE TRANSACTIONS AND CHARITABLE DONATIONS - Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed that provide an online marketplace for services from vendors. The method includes providing to service vendors a request for a service that a customer creates on the system. Further, the method includes receiving bids from the service vendors in response to the request for the service. The method further includes receiving a selection of one of the bids from the customer. The method further includes providing a payment to a selected vendor corresponding to the selected one of the bids. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156443 | Online Marketplace System - An online marketplace system comprising a customer profile associated with at least one customer, a vendor profile associated with each of the plurality of vendors, a main dashboard associated with the customer profile, a vendor dashboard associated with the vendor profile and an application server configured for storing details of the customer profile, the vendor profile, the main dashboard and the vendor dashboard in the online market system. The online market system allows the at least one customer to control and coordinate the requirements to the plurality of vendors in a simple and efficient manner. Embodiments of the system and method are described, and may be used for coordinating requirements of at least one customer related to at least one service of interest to a plurality of vendors. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156444 | CONSUMER DRIVEN PRICE LOCAL MARKETPLACE - The invention is a method of allowing merchants and service providers to dynamically maintain their inventory and accept consumer offers on demand. Consumers have the ability to “name their price” for deals at local establishments. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156445 | USED AUTOMOBILE TRANSACTION FACILITATION FOR A SPECIFIC USED AUTOMOBILE - A system, methods, and apparatus for performing used 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 and consumer interest information received from consumers, dealers, and manufacturers. A consumer seller or manufacturer off-lease seller may provide a request for a response regarding a specific used automobile with a specific a vehicle identification number. Automobile market data may be provided to a used automobile buyer based on the request. Bids to purchase the specific used automobile may be requested from used automobile buyers based on the request. Buyer bids may be provided to the consumer seller or manufacturer off-lease seller with prices and a delivery options. The consumer seller or manufacturer off-lease seller may select a bid to sell the specific used automobile based on the bid. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140164166 | PROVIDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESILIENCY IN A CLOUD-BASED SERVICES MARKETPLACE - A method for providing a cloud-based service includes receiving information from a customer of the service over a conversational interface, the information identifying a requirement of the customer related to a resiliency of the service, and identifying a service provider who provides the service in a manner that satisfies the requirement. A method for building a knowledge base of cloud-based service providers includes receiving information from a service provider, the information specifying at least one resiliency attribute of the service provider, matching the information to a standardized service descriptor, wherein the service descriptor is indexed within an ontology-based organizational framework that indexes a plurality of service descriptors, and storing the service descriptor for the service provider. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164167 | COMMERCE FACILITATION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS - The COMMERCE FACILITATION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CF”) transform consumer service request input data via CF components into provider service confirmation messages and provider service monitoring triggers. In one implementation, a commerce facilitating system embodiment is disclosed, comprising: a processor; and a memory disposed in communication with the processor and storing processor-issuable instructions that cause the processor to generate a graphical user interface that is display via a display screen operatively connected to the processor, the user interface including a map visualization comprising: a graphical element depicting a location of a service provider; graphical elements depicting locations of a plurality of potential customers for the service provider; and a graphical element depicting a fitness for the service provider conducting commerce with one of the potential customers, compared to the other potential customers. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140172618 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A CRM QUOTE AND ORDER CAPTURE CONTEXT SERVICE - Disclosed is an improved approach for implementing enterprise software systems that addresses the above-described problems with existing systems. The present approach provides an effective and efficient way for defining schemas for services, and to define how to map the schema to particular transactional contexts. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140180863 | PRODUCT OR SERVICE REQUESTS SYSTEM FOR MOBILE CUSTOMERS - An on-line venue in which buyers can anonymously communicate precisely what product or service they want to purchase by posting an interactive request that a number of sellers/service providers can then directly respond to according to one embodiment of the invention. Such embodiments may promote the buyers interests in directly matching their needs with qualified vendors. In contrast to what others provide, where the buyer has to search within each seller/service providers and then send their request. Embodiments of the present invention broadcast a buyer's needs to relevant/selected sellers/service providers. Such embodiments may take the burden from a buyer in finding the right products and services by self-qualifying the lead to proactive prospective sellers/service providers. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140188652 | FLEXIBLE DATA STORE FOR IMPLEMENTING A STREAMLINED ACQUISITION PROCESS - Methods and systems for seamlessly integrating an end-to-end acquisition process using a flexible data structure are disclosed. A flexible data structure consistent with these methods and systems may connect the buyer's requirement to the vendor's proposed solution, facilitating a requirement-by-requirement evaluation process allowing buyers to evaluate content as well as price of a proposal. Embodiments of the present invention standardize the format of proposals, allowing buyers to more easily compare vendors' proposals side-by-side. Still other embodiments of the present invention produce an error checking report to further aid vendors in improving proposals and buyers in evaluating proposals. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188653 | SELECTION DEVICE, SELECTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A selection device ( | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140201020 | MOVING COST ESTIMATION SYSTEM - A method for estimating costs associated with relocating a plurality of items is provided. An interface is provided to a device. The interface receives user input data associated with relocating a plurality of items and displays a plurality of cost estimates that includes a total moving cost. The plurality of cost estimates are based at least in part on predefined item cost and user input data. At least one of the plurality of cost estimates is dynamically updated after at least a portion of the user input data is received. At least one of an estimate sheet and moving tariff form is provided. The estimate sheet is based at least in part on the plurality of cost estimates and received user input data. The moving tariff form provides a list of at least one charge and service associated with the plurality of cost estimates. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201021 | System and method for managing selelction of prescription drug plans - A system and method for managing selection of a prescription drug plan, based on generating a request for proposal (RFP), submitting the RFP to prescription benefit management (PBM) vendors, receiving bids from PBM vendors, and calculating weighted scores of the bids to determine total score for the plan. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201022 | VEHICLE DAMAGE PROCESSING AND INFORMATION SYSTEM - A system that determines an estimate of damage to a surface area of a vehicle. The system may include a scanner that generates scanning data representative of a surface area of the vehicle. The system may also include a computing device that processes the scanning data to detect damage items and generates an estimate of damage using the processed scanning data. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140207604 | WEB-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR DYNAMIC COMPETITIVE PRICING - Embodiments relate to a method, system and program product relating to dynamic competitive pricing. An aspect includes a method for providing digital auctions that uses a network manager to establish processing communication to at least one vendor participants. The network manager receives information about a consumer's contemplated purchase through a consumer's digital device. The information includes conditions related to the contemplated purchase. The information and conditions about the contemplated purchase of the consumer is then communicated, via the network manager, to the vendor participants. The network manager communicates back to the consumer a most advantageous offer provided by the vendor participants relating to the contemplated purchase through a webpage provided by the network manager. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140207605 | INVITATION-TO-BID MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system is described that provides a single dashboard that organizes and displays all invitations-to-bid that have been received by a user from all of their various bid opportunity sources. The system also provides analytics and report functionality to prioritize invitations-to-bid and identify optimal project opportunities. Based on user-defined criteria, the system can be enabled to automatically respond with an approval or a rejection of certain invitations. In some embodiments, the system provides automatic notifications of bid deadlines to ensure that bid submissions are received on time. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140214585 | TELEPRESENCE ASSISTED ITEM TRANSPORT FACILITATION - Systems and techniques for telepresence assisted item transport facilitation are described herein. Telepresence data about a physical space can be received where the physical space includes a plurality of transport items for a client. The telepresence data can be interacted with to permit evaluation of the plurality of transport items. A normalized evaluation of the plurality of transport items can be stored based on the interaction with the telepresence data. A set of transportation quotes can be generated for members of a set of transportation vendors for the plurality of transport items. The set of transportation quotes can be presented to the client. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140222608 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING HOME REMODELING COSTS - A home remodeling cost estimator tool is used to create a cost breakdown for use when remodeling a house or a room, based on user interaction with photos, for example from such sites as Houzz.com and other proprietary data sources. For any photo in a photo database for such design sites, a user can work with the estimator to generate a price estimate and a breakdown for a building project. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222609 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CROSS-BENEFITS BASED ON A CUSTOMER ACTIVITY - In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a controller receives an indication of acceptance by a customer of an offer for a subsidy from a second vendor (e.g., a subsidizing vendor). The offer may define, for example, a reduction in the price charged for an item purchased from a first vendor and an obligation for the customer to fulfill in exchange for the subsidy. The customer is charged a second price for the items, which is less than the total price, and may even be zero. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140236754 | LONG-TERM PROPERTY ACQUISITION AND PAYMENT METHOD - Methods for the long-term leasing by a company of a plurality of properties, two or more of which are separately owned by identifying each property to be leased; and tendering to each property owner an offer to lease each property for a term of years with a lump sum payment as consideration. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140249952 | FACILITATING A SUPPLY OF USED ITEMS - Techniques are described for facilitating a supply of used items on behalf of an entity that desires to acquire such used items, such as a merchant that sells used items to customers. The used items are obtained based on interactions with recipients who receive items that are sold or otherwise provided by one or more merchants (or other suppliers of items), such as by supplying appropriate information and materials to the recipients along with the items. In some situations, when an item is delivered or otherwise supplied to a recipient by a merchant, the merchant also supplies information to the recipient that indicates an offer from a used item acquirer entity to re-acquire the item from the recipient (such as after the recipient has used the item) and shipping materials for use in returning the item to an indicated destination if the recipient accepts the offer. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140258017 | TRANSACTION ARBITER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A transaction arbiter system and method is disclosed which incorporates a merchant function database under control of a transaction arbiter that permits merchants to interact in an automated way with bids generated by other merchants. Rather than utilizing fixed price schedules as taught by the prior art, the present invention permits each merchant to define a set of functions which describe how the merchant will respond to a customer request-for-quote for a given product or service. These merchant functions interact with both the customer request-for-quote and the results of other merchant functions to generate a dynamic real-time bidding system which integrates competition among merchant bidders to achieve an optimal consumer price for a given product or service. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140258018 | Barter for Rights - Selling intangible property rights may include receiving content from a seller and determining one or more potential purchasers for the content's intangible property rights. The potential purchasers may be determined according to the subject of the content, the audience for the content, and the intangible property rights being sold. An offer to sell the intangible property rights may then be transmitted to one or more potential purchasers, along with a portion of the content. Upon receiving the one or more purchaser's acceptance of the offer, a complete copy of the content may be transmitted to the purchaser. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140279166 | Method and System for Brokering Shipping Contracts Between Solicitors and Service Providers - Method and system for brokering shipping contracts between solicitors and service providers is disclosed. The system comprises a central processing computer distributing requests for shipping service quote from solicitors to solicitors-predefined list of service providers and an interface used to input parameters of the required shipping service, input quote for such service, review all inputted quotes, select the desired quote, register shipping contract based on selected quote, and send and receive contract related communications. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279167 | PRICE ESTIMATION SYSTEM - A method of operating a price estimation system includes obtaining service requests from consumers, and obtaining bids from service professionals based on the service requests obtained from the consumers. The method additionally includes generating a training set based on the bids and the service requests, and generating a model for generating price estimates based on the training set. The method also includes employing the model to generate the price estimates based on additional service requests provided by additional consumers. In some aspects, the method further includes communicating the price estimates to the additional consumers during performance of a process for obtaining the additional service requests from the additional consumers. In other aspects, the method further includes communicating the price estimates to additional service professionals during performance of a process for obtaining additional bids from the additional service professionals based on the additional service requests. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279168 | AUTOMATED DISCOUNTING AND NEGOTIATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for automated negotiation and discounts for consumers and merchants. In an embodiment, an automated system negotiates discounts with each individual consumer, on a one-on-one basis, on behalf of a merchant while continually finding the optimum equilibrium between live supply and demand data. This may be achieved via a discount system utilizing an algorithm that may seek an ideal balance between supply & demand, and may simulate the merchant's price flexibility or urgency to sell merchandise based on one or more campaign criteria and current market conditions. In another embodiment, the system may also automatically negotiate with merchants, on behalf of the consumers, based on live supply and demand data and the consumers' negotiation preferences. In this manner, the entire negotiations process may be automated using incomplete or complete information to benefit both consumers and merchants alike. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279169 | METHOD FOR GENERATING VEHICLE REPAIR ESTIMATE REPORTS BASED ON PREDICTIVE ESTIMATING - Consumer safety of repaired vehicles can be improved by providing systems and methods for generating vehicle repair estimate reports based on predictive estimating and transmitting these reports to clients. A master server serviced by a vehicle manufacturer generates a vehicle repair estimate report based on predictive estimating and transmits this report to a client via a web-based graphical user interface. Also, a master server serviced by a vehicle manufacturer generates a vehicle repair estimate report based on predictive estimating and transmits this report to a client via a vehicle repair claims management user interface. The vehicle repair estimate report based on predictive estimating may comprise repair packages and repair information relating to recommended replacement parts and quantities thereof, the part numbers for the suggested replacement parts, the price estimate for the suggested replacement parts, manufacturer-recommended repair instructions, and other relevant information. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279170 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN ONLINE FASHION DESIGN MARKETPLACE - In one instance, a system provides an electronic marketplace that matches designers, who can be geographically dispersed and who submit fashion designs into the system, with retailers and fashion companies, who are looking for designs to make finished garments and sale. The system can optionally include factories so that the designer, retailer can have the factories immediately fabricate the selected designs. Optionally, it may also include boutiques that are specialized version of the retailers looking for a particular product for a niche group or market. Other systems and methods are presented. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279171 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING VEHICLE TRANSACTION NEGOTIATION - The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for searching vehicle listings. An example method may include receiving, from a user of a user device, by a service provider computer comprising one or more processors, a selection of a vehicle identifier associated with a vehicle. The method may also include receiving, from the user device, by the service provider computer, a communication directed to a dealer associated with the vehicle. The method may further include generating an anonymous identifier associated with the user and transmitting, to a dealer device associated with the dealer, the communication and the anonymous identifier. The method may also include transmitting, to the dealer device upon determination of the acceptance of a proposed transaction between the dealer and the user, personal identifying information associated with the user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279172 | Conditional Purchase Offer Management System - A conditional purchase offer (CPO) management system is disclosed for receiving CPOs from one or more customers, such as airline passengers, and for evaluating the received CPOs against a number of CPO rules defined by a plurality of sellers, such as airlines, to determine whether any seller is willing to accept a given CPO. A CPO is a binding offer containing one or more conditions submitted by a customer for purchase of an item, such as airline travel, at a customer-defined price. A CPO rule is a set of restrictions defined by a given seller, such as an airline, to define a combination of restrictions for which the seller is willing to accept a predefined price. The CPO rules may be securely stored by one or more servers. The CPO management system permits a seller to correct for forecasting errors, if necessary, or other competitive forces which have produced excess capacity, by providing inventory for sale to CPO customers. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279173 | ONLINE REAL ESTATE RENTAL OFFER SYSTEM AND METHOD - An online real estate rental offer system provides prospective tenants with transparent pricing and other information for a particular rental unit. The system allows prospective tenants to adjust their rent offers in response to offers made by other prospective tenants. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279174 | BUILDING DATA EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Building data exchange system including a web-enabled electronic marketplace that can accumulate structured building system efficiency data through software enabled energy and water audits. The system can include a building energy simulation engine, and database of energy/water efficiency measures. This data can be made anonymous and can populate a confidential electronic database accessible to vendors of energy efficiency products and services, resulting in a more efficient marketplace to the benefit of vendors and building owners. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279175 | Quibl Order Process System - There is disclosed a system and method including to provide consumer products and services for sale. The system includes a computer readable database and a computer processor coupled to the computer readable database. The computer readable database is configured to store account data. The account data can be, for example customer needs, types of product preferences or service preferences of the customer, addresses, phone numbers, consumer product specifications, etc. The computer processor is coupled to the computer readable database. The computer processor is configured to receive an order from a customer, input the order into an item catalog, and market the order. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279176 | PROVISION OF REAL-ESTATE MARKET INFORMATION - A computer-implemented method to provide information characterizing real-estate market conditions within a geographic sub-region included within a larger geographic region is described herein. An indication of the geographic sub-region is received from a user. A memory device on which is stored information characterizing a set of parcels of real property that have been listed for sale is accessed. A parcel of real property located in the sub-region and for which a purchase offer has been made is identified from the stored information. If a purchase transaction for the parcel of real property has not closed, a range of a plurality of values characterizing the purchase offer is provided in at least one graphical user interface. If a purchase transaction for the parcel of real property has closed, a specific value of the plurality of values characterizing the purchase offer is provided in at least one graphical user interface. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279177 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PRICE QUOTES FOR 3D OBJECTS - Systems and methods for providing price quotes for 3D objects are described herein. In one embodiment, costs related to generating a 3D object molded from a 3D printer mold may be based on various parameters. The process for generating a price quote may include uploading an initial file to a server and converting that file into a 3D CAD file. The method may also include selecting units, materials, a finish, and/or a quantity of objects to be made. Based on the selections, the server may generate a price quote to produce the one or more objects, and a checkout option may be provided allowing the user to purchase the one or more objects. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279178 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIA FOR CONNECTING VENDORS WITH CUSTOMERS THROUGH A VIRTUAL INTERFACE - The disclosed embodiment relates to connecting real-world vendors with customers through a virtual game environment using a computer-implemented method, an apparatus comprising one or more processors and one or more memories operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more processors, and at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions. An exemplary method includes receiving information from a user regarding a desired product or service, presenting a virtual game environment based at least in part on the desired product or service, monitoring the user's activity in the virtual game environment, providing an offer to the user corresponding to the desired product or service, the offer being based at least in part on the user's activity in the virtual game environment, and providing information identifying a real-world vendor corresponding to the offer, thereby enabling interactions between the user and the real-world vendor. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140304103 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SHIPMENT INFORMATION - A computer program, method, and system for managing shipping transactions provide a graphical user interface that contemporaneously displays a list of shipment requests and one or more interface elements. The shipment requests each display information about a shipment request including a plurality of carriers and associated bid statuses. The interface elements include a create shipment requests interface element that receives a user input. Upon receiving the user input the graphical user interface displays a create shipment request screen that allows a shipper to create multiple shipment requests and send them to at least one carrier. The carrier receives a communication regarding the shipment request and the communication includes a prompt to respond. In response to the prompt a second graphical user interface is displayed to the carrier that allows further communication with the shipper regarding the shipment request. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140310121 | Evaluation and Selection of Quotes of a Commerce Network - Embodiments for methods, systems and apparatuses of a commerce network for completing a commercial transaction are disclosed. One computer-method includes receiving, by one or more commerce network servers, a buyer-initiated demand for fulfillment of the commercial transaction, identifying suppliers to satisfy the buyer-initiated demand based on buyer policies and supplier characteristics, requesting quotes from the identified suppliers, receiving quotes from the identified suppliers, evaluating and selecting, by the one or more commerce network servers, one or more of the received quotes, wherein evaluating and selecting the one or more of the received quote comprises applying evaluating criteria to the received quotes, wherein the evaluation criteria includes applying a weighted combination of a plurality of evaluating factors, and facilitating presentation of the one or more selected quotes to the buyer. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140316924 | Method, Apparatus and Program Product Facilitating Contract Formation With Labor Component - A method, apparatus and program product which facilitate contract formation by making explicit the labor content of a bid presented by a second party (potential supplier) to a first party (buying the services or goods). Software executing on an information handling system and controllably accessible to both parties which provides a common set of the job roles, job skills and costs associated with a bid to be presented. Such clarification by use of a common taxonomic table enables the buying party to better understand the cost build up for the labor component and to rank the cost build up among several bidders. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140316925 | Method and System of Obtaining a Bid For Services - A method and system of obtaining a bid from a provider of services, involving creating a client request for proposal (RFP) document, storing the client RFP document in a data store, inviting a bidding service provider to respond a stored client RFP document, allowing an invited bidding service provider to access the stored client RFP document, allowing the bidding service provider to respond to the stored client RFP document, obtaining all completed responses and all rate elements from bidding service providers, generating a comparative financial analysis showing a sorted list of responses, generating a weighted report, the generated weighted report comprising a display of bids having a best compliance with the client RFP document in top down order based on the comparative financial analysis, and providing the generated weighted report to the client. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140316926 | Automated Market Maker in Monitoring Services Marketplace - An application services marketplace may match various solution providers to a solution request, then creating a bid or proposal for services. Upon acceptance of the bid, the services may be configured and deployed. A market maker may combine multiple solution providers to address a specific request, and may use a schema expressly defined or implied in a request to select and configure a combination of services. The market maker may combine monitoring services with analysis services, monitoring services with load generators, or other combination of services that may be used during development or deployment of an application. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140316927 | METHOD FOR COORDINATING MESSAGING BETWEEN MOTIVATED BUYERS AND SELLERS ON LIST OF SELLERS - An on-line venue in which buyers can anonymously communicate precisely what product or service they want to purchase by posting an interactive request that a number of sellers/service providers can then directly respond to according to one embodiment of the invention. Such embodiments may promote the buyers interests in directly matching their needs with qualified vendors. In contrast to what others provide, where the buyer has to search within each seller/service providers and then send their request. Embodiments of the present invention broadcast a buyer's needs to relevant/selected sellers/service providers. Such embodiments may take the burden from a buyer in finding the right products and services by self-qualifying the lead to proactive prospective sellers/service providers. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140316928 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUSINESSES TO ACQUIRE PROFITABLE CUSTOMERS - The disclosure provides a method and system for customers to identify their Financial Value and to auction this value, through a full-time public network, to selected service and product providers (collectively “vendors”) seeking customers with specific profiles. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140324621 | CONSOLIDATION MANAGER FOR THIRD PARTY SERVICES - A system consolidates user interactions with providers of goods and/or services. The system includes an electronic data storage device to store user information corresponding to a user. The system also includes a data processor to administer electronic communications with a plurality of the providers of goods and/or services. The system also includes a consolidation manager to aggregate information from the plurality of the providers into a consolidated format for presentation to the user. Embodiments of the system may aggregate quote information, billing information, and other similar types of information. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324622 | Providing Network Access To A User Computer - A system and method for automatically negotiating Internet access between a user and one of a plurality of Internet connection providers. Users can buy or bid for Internet bandwidth, for example, through a server or website or by direct communications with an Internet access point such as, for example, a WIFI access point. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140337157 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MARKETPLACE FOR MOVING SERVICES - The present invention generally relates to computer and web-based marketplace for moving services. Specifically, this invention relates to systems and methods for providing consumers with quotes for moving services from multiple movers. Embodiments of the present invention allow a consumer to provide details about their move and for movers to provide a customized quote for services based upon the specifics of that consumer's move. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140344096 | 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. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344097 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF CUSTOMER ACQUISITION, RESOURCE UTILIZATION, AND PROFITS FOR A MOVING COMPANY - A method is provided. User input data corresponding relocating a plurality of items is received at a user interface. An initial cost for the moving company to relocate the plurality of items is determined. Availability data is requested. The availability data indicates whether moving resources of the moving company are available for use during a time frame for relocating the plurality of items. Resource utilization of moving resources of the moving company during the time frame is determined based at least in part on the availability data. A determination is made whether the resource utilization meets a predefined threshold. The initial cost is modified based on whether the resource utilization meets the predefined threshold. A determination is made whether the user accepted the modified initial cost. The relocation of the plurality of items is scheduled by reserving at least some of the moving resources during the time frame. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140358716 | Website-Based System For Facilitating Real Time Or Near Real Time Negotiations Between Providers and Purchasers - In an electronic negotiation system, a web server stores seller information characterizing an offer. The electronic negotiation system provides for sending and receiving buyer and seller information regarding the offer where the information exchanged includes buyer and seller interest in the offer and a versatility in at least one of the seller defined parameters characterizing the offer. These electronic exchanges may be characterized as occurring in near real-time. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140365327 | REVERSE AUCTION FOR REAL-TIME SERVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a non-transitory computer storage medium, for providing reverse auctions for goods and services in real-time. In one aspect, a method includes storing profile information associated with a plurality of information sources, each source associated with a category. A request for information from a user including information associated with a good or service sought is analyzed to identify information sources as responsive to the request based on a comparison of the good or service sought and each information source's associated category. Responses are solicited from the identified information sources. In response, a set of responses from at least a subset of the identified information sources is received, which are then ranked based on a comparison of the particular response to the request for information, and at least a subset of which are presented to the user based on the ranking. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365328 | LOGISTICS-AWARE SHIPPING ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computing system for initiating a shipping inquiry for a specific piece of heavy equipment having a defined manufacturer/model. A logistics database is accessed to obtain at least one logistics criterion for the specific piece of heavy equipment, wherein the at least one logistics criterion defines one or more logistical characteristics for the specific piece of heavy equipment. The at least one logistics criterion is identified to the user. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365329 | GROUP-DEFINABLE SHIPPING ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a shipping inquiry for moving a specific piece of heavy equipment from a starting location to a destination location. One of a plurality of shipping inquiry submission options is selected, wherein the plurality of shipping inquiry submission options includes: at least one direct submission option that submits the shipping inquiry to a single preferred service provider, requesting that the single preferred service provider fulfill the shipping inquiry; and at least one bid submission option that submits the shipping inquiry to a predefined group of service providers, requesting that the members of the predefined group of service providers submit competitive bids for fulfilling the shipping inquiry. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140372245 | DEALERS ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE - A dealer to dealer tool allows a dealer to post a car for sale with specific details, or search for a car with specific details, using an app or IVR system and thus untethered from computers, though a computer option is provided. A human operator response system is included as an alternative. The device requires any interested party to meet the minimum price, which may be hidden or posted. The device of the invention allows extra services such as dealer to dealer networking for advice, news, data updates, social purposes and more. If a vehicle does not change owners it is quickly timed out to a Hot List system, then a bulletin board, and then blacklisted until it has a new owner. A dealer signs up and enters a profile of vehicles and/or price ranges of interest, also listing other dealers they do not wish to work with. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140379512 | SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMULA MANAGEMENT - A system, device and method involve the management of formulas. In one embodiment, the formulas are buildable through the selection of mathematical components. A formula list facilitates formula management. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379513 | Customized Deal Generation - A server receives a request for a deal from a client device of a merchant, the request for a deal including a merchant identifier. The server then accesses merchant information based on the merchant identifier, the merchant information including a merchant category and a merchant location. Additionally, the server obtains a set of candidate deals based on the merchant category and merchant location. The server then obtains historical information for each candidate deal, the historical information corresponding to one or more conversion rates of the candidate deal when the candidate deal was previously offered by one or more merchants. Next, the server determines a predicted conversion rate for each candidate deal, based on the historical information for the respective candidate deal and selects a deal based on the predicted conversion rates for the set of candidate deals. Lastly, the server communicates data corresponding to the selected deal to the client device, the data including the predicted conversion rate for the selected deal. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150012377 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPARATIVELY DISPLAYING DISPARATE SERVICE OFFERINGS - Systems and methods for providing instant, real-time quotes for mixed product/service solutions, such as home improvement products, and allowing for fair price comparisons. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150019366 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS WITH PURCHASE OFFER PROCESSING FEATURE - A system and method for facilitating real estate transactions that is configured for receiving property information from a listing service or data feed, presenting a property information display on data communication devices for each property; generating a unique transaction actuator in each property information display, and responsive to selecting a unique transaction actuator, generating an offer form with an offer transmittal actuator, wherein the offer form includes a plurality of data fields relating to an offer to purchase property that are populated with the property information for the specific property associated with the selected unique transaction actuator. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150046280 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR VIDEO-BASED COMMERCE - A computer system receiving audiovisual information, geographic information, and a seller term from a seller computer, said audiovisual information disclosing a seller offer at a seller location captured via said seller computer, said geographic information associated with said location, said audiovisual information associated with said geographic information, said system providing said audiovisual information to a buyer computer for an acceptance of said offer via said buyer computer, said system conditioning said acceptance upon said buyer computer being geographically positioned in compliance with said term based on said geographic information. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150058153 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PORTAL FOR OBTAINING AND OFFER SERVICES - The present invention provides an electronic, computer implemented portal among service providers and service seekers. The system and methods allow the service seeker to post an electronic submission for services or the service provider to post an electronic submission for services to be provided. The system provides a non-negotiable functionality, which allows parties to instantly contract. In one variation, the service seeker may create a sufficiently detailed submission which can be answered by a service provider. In a second variation, the service provider may create a sufficiently detailed submission to perform services, which can be answered with a non-negotiable, binding legal acceptance from a service seeker. The system also provides a negotiable functionality, in which parties can negotiate aspects of the offer. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058154 | SHOPPING LIST OPTIMIZATION - An optimization server optimizes a shopping list. The server receives a shopping list including a plurality of items to purchase. The server determines a discount to the price of one or more of the plurality of items, a sentiment score for one or more of the plurality of items, and a sentiment score for a retailer of one or more of the plurality of items. The server groups the plurality of items into a plurality of sub-lists, transmits the plurality of sub-lists to a respective plurality of retail servers, and receives a plurality of bids in response. The server generates optimized shopping lists based at least on the discount, the sentiment scores, and the plurality of bids. The server regenerates at least one of the optimized shopping lists based at least on a dynamic discount condition, a dynamic price condition, or a dynamic inventory condition. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150066679 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING MERCHANDISE LEADS - A computer-implemented method is provided that includes executing instructions stored on a computer-readable medium. The method includes receiving lead information from a computing device and generating a lead listing based at least in part on the received lead information. The method further includes identifying at least one retailer based on the received lead information and at least one buying preference associated with each retailer of a plurality of retailers, transmitting the lead listing to the identified at least one retailer, and receiving at least one bid from the identified at least one retailer. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150120485 | Method and System for Facilitating the Purchase and Sale of Used Mobile Devices - This invention allows the owner of a mobile device capable of two way telecommunications such as a mobile phone to have said device remotely evaluated using an electronic connection and obtain a firm price for said mobile device. More particularly, the owner of a mobile phone may obtain a firm price for said mobile phone before sending said mobile phone to a mail in location. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120486 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO COMPILE AND COMPARE PRICES ACROSS MULTIPLE SUPPLIERS - A computer-implemented method and system that allows operators to compile and optionally compare prices across multiple suppliers. The system and method may be based on operator preferences and may be designed to execute orders from a single database and operator interface. The system and method also facilitate the ability to compare pricing and track historical variations and trends across like products and across a plurality of suppliers by a data mapping structure. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120487 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING DELIVERY OF A SERVICE ASSOCIATED WITH A PRODUCT - Methods and apparatus for facilitating delivery of a service associated with a product are disclosed. In general, in an embodiment, a retail website receives a product selection and jobsite information indicative of an intended end-use location of the product where the associated service is needed. The website then solicits bids for the service and allows the user to select a winning bid. If the user selects a bid, the website facilitates delivering the service associated with the selected product. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120488 | Method, Medium, and System for Facilitating Vehicle Purchases - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an effective, user-friendly approach to help a buyer of a car, truck, boat, or other vehicle to get a firm quote from a dealer on a vehicle that the buyer wants, and is financially qualified for, without the hassle and time expense involved in traditional vehicle sales. Embodiments of the present disclosure also help link dealers with buyers who are pre-qualified and motivated to purchase a vehicle, thus helping to eliminate the wasted time, money, and opportunity costs dealers often devote to customers who are not interested in purchasing, and/or who do not financially qualify to purchase, a vehicle. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120489 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Vehicle Purchases - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an effective, user-friendly approach to help a buyer of a car, truck, boat, or other vehicle to get a firm quote from a dealer on a vehicle that the buyer wants, and is financially qualified for, without the hassle and time expense involved in traditional vehicle sales. Embodiments of the present disclosure also help link dealers with buyers who are pre-qualified and motivated to purchase a vehicle, thus helping to eliminate the wasted time, money, and opportunity costs dealers often devote to customers who are not interested in purchasing, and/or who do not financially qualify to purchase, a vehicle. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150127480 | METHOD FOR QUOTING PART PRODUCTION - One variation of a method for quoting manufacture of a part during construction of a virtual model of the part within a computer-aided drafting engine includes: receiving a quote file specifying a current manufacturing schedule and a pricing structure for a manufacturing facility; at a first time, in response to insertion of a first three-dimensional virtual geometry into the virtual model, calculating a manufacturing quote for the part based on the first three-dimensional virtual geometry and the quote file; displaying the manufacturing quote; at a second time succeeding the first time, in response to insertion of a second three-dimensional virtual geometry into the virtual model, updating the manufacturing quote based on the second three-dimensional virtual geometry and the quote file; and, at a third time succeeding the second time, submitting a form of the virtual model to the manufacturing facility for manufacture of the part. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150294384 | WISH LIST SHARING AND PUSH SUBSCRIPTION SYSTEM - Methods and systems for making competitive sales or incentive offers from merchants through a service provider to a user while protecting user privacy enable merchants to make offers that are based on a user shopping wish list—which may be either transient (having a pre-set expiration time) or non-transient—in which the wish lists are provided from users through the service provider to merchants in a secure and private manner. A computer-implemented method includes: sending, to a merchant device of a merchant, some wish list data about a wish list item for a user, the wish list data containing no specifically identifying information about the user; receiving, by a service provider device of a service provider, an offer about the wish list item from the merchant based on the wish list data; and providing, to a user device for the user, the offer about the wish list item. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150294390 | INTERACTIVE COMPARISON SHOPPING - To get better deals in shopping goods or services, e.g., quantity discount, potential purchasers may be encouraged to buy multiple items on a shopping list together from one supplier at wholesale prices. One or more suppliers may receive the shopping list and provide total prices for the potential purchasers. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150294402 | System and Method for Facilitating Renting and Purchasing Relationships - A system and method for facilitating renting and purchasing relationships. The method includes receiving at least one property profile from at least one responsible party. At least one transaction request from each of a plurality of responsible parties is received. The transaction requests are matched with the property profiles. The transaction requests are provided to the responsible parties of those properties that match the transaction request. In one embodiment, an offer received from at least one of the responsible parties is provided to at least one of the requesting parties. The method may be executed on a computer connected to a network such as the Internet. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150302498 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN A USER AND A VENDOR - Embodiments facilitate commercial transactions between a user and one or more vendors without requiring a user to provide information unique to a user account for the vendor. Embodiments prompt a user to select one or more vendors from a list of vendors. An authorization is obtained from the user to allow the computer program to retrieve the product from the list of vendors and on behalf of the user. The computer program then requests and receives, from each vendor, information for accessing an electronic resource of the vendor. In embodiments, the received information is unique to the user account for the vendor. The computer program then obtains the product from the vendor based on the received information. The computer program thus presents a centralized management service for obtaining product from a plurality of vendors and without requiring the user to provide user information unique to the user for each vendor. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150310388 | LOCAL COURIERS NETWORK IN THE CONTEXT OF AN ON-LINE TRADING PLATFORM - A local couriers network provided in the context of an on-line trading platform is described. A request detector receives, from a user, a purchase request indicating an item. A local delivery indication detector determines, from the purchase request, an indication of a local delivery transaction. A local courier selector selects courier identifications corresponding to one or more profiles from the local courier profiles in response to the indication of the local delivery transaction, utilizing respective quality of service ratings stored in the local courier profiles. The communications module provides the list to the user and receives, from the user, a chosen courier identification and completes a transaction with respect to purchase and delivery of the item. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150324933 | REAL-TIME SOCIAL GROUP BASED BIDDING SYSTEM - There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for creating the social group whose participants are involved in an online conversation. The system aggregates data associated with the online conversation and a group profile, of the social group. The system determines, based on the online conversation data and the group profile, a context of the online conversation and a goal of the social group. The system receives, based on the determined context and the goal, a first bidding from each provider, the first bidding associated with the determined context and the goal, the each provider providing one or more of: goods, services or discounts associated with the context and the goal. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150332362 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING SALE OF GOODS - Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for facilitating the communication between two or more users of an electronic marketplace. The communication between the two or more users is implemented to promote a sale of a product offered for sale on the electronic marketplace. Systems, device, and methods are also disclosed for providing an advantage for one or more product listings being offered for sale on the electronic marketplace. The advantage may place the product listing within a preferential location on a display of the electronic marketplace. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150339743 | SYSTEM FOR RELATIONSHIP-BASED SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS - A method and system for a Posting User to communicate a Transaction Proposal to potential Viewing Users in relation to an Item includes creating an Availability Schedule which contains at least one Rank including a Relationship Credential and a Reserve Value; creating a Transaction Proposal; assigning the Availability Schedule to the Transaction Proposal; and submitting the Transaction Proposal to an Inventory Database in which the a Transaction Proposal is assigned a posting date and becomes a Posted Transaction Proposal. The Inventory Database is searchable by potential Viewing Users having a Relationship Credential that is in the Availability Schedule. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339744 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REQUESTING A QUOTE OR PROCESSING AN ORDER - A system is adapted to request or quote or process an item order request. The system comprises a first database stored with drawings of at least one machine; a second database stored with customer data; and a user interface providing access to the first database adapted for a user to select from a drawing an item to be ordered and then providing access to the second database to either store or select customer data. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150348151 | CONNECTING TRANSACTION ENTITIES TO ONE ANOTHER SECURELY AND PRIVATELY, WITH INTERACTION RECORDING - A system and method for connecting first and second transaction entities includes displaying a transaction associated with the first transaction entity where the transaction may be associated with a category of transactions. An option is also displayed to request interaction with the first transaction entity. A processor receives selection of the option and transmits a command to establish the interaction between the first transaction entity and the second transaction entity. The interaction is recorded and stored in a data storage device. The processor analyzes the recorded interaction and, according to one embodiment, detects one or more keywords in the recording. A notification may be transmitted in response to the detected one or more keywords. In another embodiment, the processor may detect a trend from analysis of the recording and may make a modification relating to future transactions associated with the category of transactions based on the detected trend. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150348152 | SOFTWARE PLATFORM FOR OPTIMIZING THE TRADE-IN VALUE OF VEHICLES AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a software platform, designed with an HTML Internet interface, and for portable phones (App format) to allow a full membership of car dealerships to operate in tandem via the system and platform to quickly and efficiently optimize the trade-in quote for a car of a potential buyer. Using a first device, a first agent of a dealer, if he or she cannot make a very good trade-in offer, will enter the vehicle data into the system which will immediately reach out the other members in a preferred format for issuance within a short time period of a revised an optimized quote. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150363849 | DUAL CROWDSOURCING MODEL FOR ONLINE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN - Systems and methods for facilitating a design contest between clients and designers are provided. A client can provide a profile of a new design job. The design job can be published for bidding from designers. The bids can be received and ranked according to the preferences of the client. A prize can be awarded to winning designers. The client can receive the winning designs and use them to complete the new design job. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363850 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING ORDER, TRANSACTION SERVER AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - The present disclosure provides a method for processing a transaction order of virtual resources. The order for the virtual resources is received by a server from a first client, and the order records a specified quantity of the virtual resources to be purchased. All commodities including the virtual resources offered for sale are acquired from a database of a transaction system. All the commodities are traversed to select a commodity combination matching the specified quantity. The commodity combination comprises one or more of the commodities. A corresponding suborder is generated for each commodity in the selected commodity combination. The suborder is processed according to demand. Also provided are a transaction server and a computer readable storage medium. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150371301 | SYSTEM AND METHODS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK FOR USE IN RETAIL APPLICATIONS | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150379600 | ORDER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LIMITED COUNTERPART TRANSACTIONS - The present invention provides a computer system for managing limited counterpart transaction orders for products or services, in particular with a ceiling price, comprising: —a source of information indexing the available products or services and explanatory variables for these products or services, as well as time related counterpart information for these products or services, —an automatic classification engine adapted to gather products or services by classes of counterpart evolution, from historical counterpart data, and to attribute to each class a set of explanatory variables and an evolution behavior, —a client interface for inputting orders on given products and services defined by explanatory variable values, with a limit counterpart value, —a class allocation engine for allocating an inputted order to at least one evolution class depending on the explanatory variable values of the order, and —an indicator computation engine capable of computing a success probability indicator for an input order, combining the value of the limit counterpart value of the order with data of the evolution class(es) to which it is allocated, —means for providing to said client interface computed values of said success probability indicator, and —a matching engine to match offers and counterpart offers to convert orders into transactions when counterpart offers reach counterpart limit values of orders. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160005090 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ONLINE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCT - Various aspects of a system and method for providing an online knowledge product. The system, implemented in a server communicatively coupled to an electronic device, comprises one or more processors operable to receive a request from the electronic device associated with a first user. The request comprises a request order and one or more user preferences. One or more knowledge models are selected from one or more pre-stored knowledge models based on the received request. The one or more pre-stored knowledge models are generated based on one or more previous requests. The one or more previous requests are similar to at least a portion of the received request. The one or more processors further determine a first knowledge product based on the selected one or more knowledge models. An input from a second user on the determined first knowledge product is received to determine a second knowledge product. The selected one or more knowledge models are updated based on the determined second knowledge product so that a subsequent first knowledge product is substantially similar to the determined second knowledge product for a next request similar to the received request. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160012503 | Method and system for providing a transaction platform for pre-owned merchandise | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160012504 | Method And System For Selecting Services And/Or Content In A Network Comprising Multiple Service And/Or Content Provider | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160019615 | Mapping and Procurement System - Methods and systems are described for generating a list of aftermarket parts that match a fit with a Vehicle Identification Number as well as a description of the part to be replaced. The methods interface with existing quoting platforms. According to one embodiment, the method and system describes receiving a Request For a Quote, querying a database for matching parts, returning the list, receiving a part selection, querying a database for shipping information, ordering the part, and returning an order confirmation. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160034993 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ALLOCATE THE TIME OF USERS TO ONLINE ACTIVITIES - A system and method configured to present tasks from bidders to users of a mobile application, based on matching the currently available of time periods offered by the users with the expected time periods required to perform the tasks, matching the core requirements of the tasks with the profiles of the users, prioritizing matched tasks based at least on degrees of matching between the optional requirements of the tasks with the profiles of the users. The mobile application presents content of tasks selected by the end users, monitor user engagement in the time periods during the users performing the selected tasks, collect and report data for the bidders of the user selected tasks, and process payments from the bidders to the users for the completion of the user selected tasks. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160042415 | NETWORK-BASED PROCUREMENT MARKETPLACE SERVICES - A network-based procurement marketplace system and method is provided to facilitate establishment and development of procurement transactions between purchasers and purchasing agents. Purchasers can submit purchase offers, each of which specifies requested merchandise that is to be acquired and delivered to the purchaser. Purchase offers are published, in some instances only to purchasing agents within a particular geographical region associated with the purchaser. The purchasing agent can submit a procurement claim for all or part of the requested merchandise. Before fulfilment of the procurement claim, funds may automatically be secured from a purchaser account for payment to the purchasing agent, to allow prompt an estimated payment to the purchasing agent upon delivery notification with respect to the claimed merchandise. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160042417 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSMISSION OF REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE-BASED OFFERS BASED ON A TACTILE INPUT - Provided herein are systems and methods for transmitting an offer between users based on an interaction of a first user with an image representing a good/service to be offered. A user device system includes a list of potential recipients and a list of items and one or more hardware processors. The system receives a selection of one or more of the potential recipients as displayed on a display of the system. The system displays images representing at least some of the list of items that the first user can offer to a second user. The system processes an input received on the display in connection with a first image of the set of images as a request by the first user to offer the item represented by the first image to the second user and then transmits the request to the transaction service provider system over a network. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160071177 | BUYER FOCUSED VEHICLE ACQUISITION SERVICE - Techniques for better connecting buyers and sellers to facilitate vehicle acquisitions are described. The techniques include tools to enable buyers to specify the types of vehicles the buyers are interested in acquiring and view offers from potential sellers that have viewed the requests of the buyers. The techniques also include tools to enable sellers to view sales leads for potential buyers and to notify buyers of their interest in offering a vehicle for acquisition. Further, the techniques include a variety of other tools to facilitate vehicle acquisitions. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160071178 | Real Estate Offer Management System - A real estate offer management system includes a server in electronic communication with a user computer over the Internet. A user interface is provided by the server and includes a webpage for receiving seller preferences from the user computer. The seller preferences relate to a plurality of offer components for the sale of a property. An offer scorer receives a plurality of offers concerning the property and calculates scores for each offer using the seller preferences. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160071192 | INTEGRATED ACCESS PROVISIONING SOLUTION - An integrated access provisioning system provides an integrated approach to the ordering, design, provisioning, testing and acceptance of access. The system is designed to assist service providers to streamline the delivery of access services to their customers. Specifically, the system: presents an intuitive front end for ordering access, performs access validation, stores customer circuit inventory to assist in circuit design, provides work flow management with dynamic work queues to support major access delivery functions, supports manual Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) interfaces and provides a reporting engine based on testing. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160078510 | WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT MARKETPLACE - A temporary warehouse environment includes various platforms for locating, establishing, and operating one or more temporary houses. A temporary warehouse locator identifies potential geographic locations for one or more temporary warehouses based on prior transactions conducted by a merchant and predicted transactions or operating expenditures. The identified geographic locations may then be leveraged by a temporary warehouse marketplace, which connects the merchant with owners and/or operators of available property in the identified geographic locations. A temporary warehouse recruiter further connects the merchant with potential employees for maintain and operating the temporary warehouse and includes various mechanisms by which the merchant may identify potential employees based on their prior employment history. Finally, a temporary warehouse system provides day-to-day operations for the temporary warehouse, including fulfilling orders placed by customers and monitoring the shipments of such orders. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160078511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REQUESTING A QUOTE, PROCESSING AN ORDER, OR REQUESTING SUPPORT - A system for requesting a quote, processing an order, or requesting support for a part of an electric machine is described. The system includes a user interface device with a memory device storing a computer program with executable instructions, and a communication network interfacing with the user interface device and adapted to transmit data. The computer program includes instructions to transmit an electronic communication via the communication network. The electronic communication contains data relating to the part of the electric machine for requesting a quote, processing an order, or requesting support of the electric machine. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160086241 | INTERACTIVE NOTIFICATIONS FOR MOBILE COMMERCE APPLICATIONS - Interactive notifications, from merchants or others soliciting a user response, are provided to the users' mobile devices for facilitating user engagement and receiving customer feedback. The interactive notifications include multiple single- or limited-action user-response options, such as buttons for purchasing the product or indicating that the user is not interested, enabling a user to immediately respond to the notification. The notification may be pushed to the mobile devices and presented on the locked screen of the mobile device or may interrupt other applications, thereby further minimizing the level of user interaction or attention necessary for responding. Analytical data may be collected from the interactive notification and may be used to tailor future notifications. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160086242 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING A LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM - A system and method for modeling a lighting control system for an enterprise is provided comprising an application (App) on a mobile device, or laptop, or personal computer, or other like device, that can communicate electronically with a webpage accessible by the internet or local area network or wide area network, wherein the webpage represents a program, and the program provides for the receiving, storing, and processing of lighting control system specified information on a space-by-space basis, and further wherein a unique part number for the space-based lighting control system can be generated for the particular space, such that delivery of individual, but substantially integrated space-based lighting control systems, can be delivered to the spaces for installation in the enterprise location. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160086243 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFECTUATING AN ELECTRONIC PURCHASE TRANSACTION BETWEEN A CONSUMER DEVICE AND A MERCHANT - The system and methods thereof provide for a delayed display of content on a consumer device. A user log-on from a consumer device to an electronic commerce (e-commerce) server is acknowledged. One or more parameters related to the user as extracted from the consumer device is identified. Respective thereto a threshold value for timing a display of motivational content on the consumer device is adjusted, thereby encouraging purchases of goods or services using the e-commerce server. The motivational content is selected respective of the parameters collected from the consumer device. The displayed content may provide a web link through which a counter offer may be sent from the consumer device to the e-commerce server. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160086245 | COMMUNICATIONS SERVER APPARATUS AND METHODS OF OPERATION THEREOF - A communications server apparatus comprises a processor and a memory. The communications server apparatus is configured, under control of the processor, to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive, over a communications channel, link information relating to a caller input, the caller input being activation of a link in a page by a caller, the link being associated with an offer, and activation of the link being a request for a voice communication session between the caller and a call recipient about the offer. The communications server apparatus identifies the call recipient using the link information and initiates the voice communication session between a caller device associated with the caller and a recipient device associated with the call recipient. Supplementary information relating to the activation of the link is transmitted to the recipient device. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160092849 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRICING AND PERFORMING OTHER PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH RECYCLING MOBILE PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The present disclosure describes various embodiments of methods and systems for developing pricing and performing other processes associated with recycling mobile phones, other consumer electronic devices, and/or other goods and services. In some embodiments, the methods and systems disclosed herein can be employed by a user-operated kiosk to determine a price to offer the user for a mobile phone or other electronic device that cannot be sufficiently identified by the kiosk. In some embodiments, the price can be an adjusted price, such as a weighted average price. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092953 | TECHNIQUES FOR FACILITATING A FEE QUOTE - In some embodiments, a presentation offering an item for sale by a seller is provided on a computing device. An offer for purchase of the item including an offer amount and a buyer shipping address can be received. A notification identifying the item and the offer can be generated. The notification can include an option to respond to the offer with a request for an additional fee. An option to request a quote for the additional fee can be presented and a selection of the option to request a quote for the additional fee can be detected. A quote for the additional fee can be generated. A quote notification that includes the quote for the additional fee can be generated. The quote notification can include a first option to select the quote for the additional fee and a second option to provide a user quote for the additional fee. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160104111 | OBTAINING LOADS FOR NEXT LEG OR BACKHAUL - Transportation services are matched with a specified demand for transportation services. Categories of transportation services met by capabilities of the transportation service provider is determined, along with preference data concerning the transportation service provider. Candidate service interest is used to match the transportation service provider to the specified demand for transportation services. Competitive bids are obtained to meet a specified demand for transportation services, and the transportation service provider is offered inclusion in the competitive bids based on the candidate service interest. If the transportation service provider wins the bid, provision of the transportation service are arranged, and if the transportation service provider loses the bid, repeating the sequence of using the candidate service interest to match the transportation service provider to the specified demand for transportation services. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160104222 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELLING AND BUYING VEHICLES - A system comprising a server including a processor and a memory having executable instructions stored thereon that when executed by the processor cause the processor to receive detail data associated with a vehicle from a client device of a seller, retrieve, from third party data servers, retail prices and trade-in prices of vehicles corresponding to the detail data, calculate a marketplace offering price for the vehicle based on the retail and trade-in prices, and transmit the marketplace offering price for the vehicle to the client device of the seller. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160117743 | Method and system for virtual vehicle marketplace - A computer implemented web based method for an online virtual marketplace in which the consumer can obtain information about available vehicles and preexisting leasing information and make an offer to purchase or lease vehicles. The method provides a web based database populated with vehicle information data and preexisting leasing information. A customer can lease or purchase a vehicle by searching in the electronic database for a vehicle; selecting and building the vehicle; retrieving a predetermined plurality of preexisting information for review; creating an offer for the selected and built vehicle; submitting an offer to a predetermined plurality of dealers so as to permit the dealers to evaluate the offer; and receiving the first acceptance by one of the dealers of the submitted leasing or purchase offer. A system and computer readable memory storage medium containing computer executable instructions for implementing the method are also disclosed. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160132947 | Power Sharing - A method comprising receiving, on a server, from a computing device of a user, a request to receive a battery charge on a battery-powered device of the user, the request including one or more criteria; identifying, by the server, one or more potential charge donors as target charge donors by comparing the criteria of the request with donor preferences previously provided by potential charge donors; and sending, from the server, information related to a target charge donor to the computing device of the user. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160132948 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR SERVICES - Computer-implemented methods for generating quotes are provided herein. Questions associated with service request parameters of a type of service can be presented. Input indicative of values for the service request parameters can be received. The values for the service request parameters can be associated with a service request. Service listings can be provided upon memory. Each of the service listings can be associated with a service provider, service provider rules for the service provider, and price parameters. The values for the service request parameters can be compared with the service provider rules. The service request can be matched to matching listings of the service listings based upon the service request parameters and the service provider rules that are compared. Quotes for the matching listings of the service listings can be generated. The quotes can be calculated using the price parameters associated with the matching listings of the service listings. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160148289 | MANAGING BUY/SELL TRANSACTIONS - A system and method to facilitate a buy/sell transaction between the buyers in an electronic marketplace. The system processes the buy/sell transaction of the time between the first purchaser and the second purchaser during or prior to completion of the buy/sell transaction of the item between the first purchaser and the seller if the offer to buy the item from the second purchaser is accepted by the first purchaser. The system supports option trading of items by enabling buy/sell transactions among the purchasers. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160155168 | AUTOMOBILE TRANSACTION FACILITATION BASED ON A CUSTOMER SELECTION OF A SPECIFIC AUTOMOBILE | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160171575 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING MOBILE PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160189260 | Systems and methods for presenting vehicular transaction information in a data communication network - A system for dynamically presenting vehicular transaction information in a data communication network includes a network interface subsystem and a dynamic communication subsystem. The dynamic communication subsystem is configured to: based on offer data parameters and any received response messages, generate data representing an initial list of at least one purchase and financing option; when a first communication trigger condition is detected, generate signals for communicating the data representing the initial list for display on a device associated with a customer; when additional response messages are received, generate update data representing at least one additional or updated purchase and financing option; and generate signals for communicating the update data representing the at least one additional or updated purchase and financing option. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160189261 | Method and System for E-Auction - System intelligent interactive base for having supplier inputs and posing further questions to the supplier, including a portal system for conducting electronic auction requests for information, wherein buyer managing supplier inputs include an interconnection of at least one configurable and namable business process element. The system includes a host computer system, at least one database component associated with the host computer system, and a communication interface for accessing the host computer system from a plurality of remote input/output devices to manage the business process element. The system further includes a buyer on a web enabled handheld device (e.g., mobile devices and/or web based devices) and a supplier on a second web enabled handheld device (e.g., mobile devices and/or web based devices), in order to access a flexible price builder tab for capturing requests for information sought by the buyer from various suppliers for the purpose of conducting electronic auctions. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160196595 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOLICITATON AND MANAGEMENT OF PROJECT SERVICES | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160253723 | PAPER CALCULATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160379194 | Platform For Progressive On-Line Group Purchasing - This invention relates to a method of providing progressive on-line group purchasing of goods and services including the steps of selecting articles to be purchased, receiving a target group size and price, creating a group of target size from among friends in at least one social network, communicating separate purchasing and payment information to a retailer's server, and receiving from said retailer's server separate proofs of purchase for each one of the group members. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160379283 | ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL DATA TO MATCH SUPPLIERS TO USERS - In an approach for providing a product recommendation, a processor identifies an image as trending, based on the image exceeding a threshold frequency of occurrence on at least one media platform. A processor analyzes the image to identify a set of one or more elements within the image, wherein at least one element is a product. A processor determines one or more interests of a user. A processor determines that the product is relevant to the user based on the one or more interests of the user corresponding, within a predetermined threshold, to an element of the set of one or more elements within the image. A processor sends a notification that includes at least the product. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160379285 | Method and System of Obtaining a Bid For Services - A method and system of obtaining a bid from a provider of services, involving creating a client request for proposal (RFP) document, storing the client RFP document in a data store, inviting a bidding service provider to respond a stored client RFP document, allowing an invited bidding service provider to access the stored client RFP document, allowing the bidding service provider to respond to the stored client RFP document, obtaining all completed responses and all rate elements from bidding service providers, generating a comparative financial analysis showing a sorted list of responses, generating a weighted report, the generated weighted report comprising a display of bids having a best compliance with the client RFP document in top down order based on the comparative financial analysis, and providing the generated weighted report to the client. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160379286 | Method and System of Obtaining a Bid For Services - A method and system of obtaining a bid from a provider of services, involving creating a client request for proposal (RFP) document, storing the client RFP document in a data store, inviting a bidding service provider to respond a stored client RFP document, allowing an invited bidding service provider to access the stored client RFP document, allowing the bidding service provider to respond to the stored client RFP document, obtaining all completed responses and all rate elements from bidding service providers, generating a comparative financial analysis showing a sorted list of responses, generating a weighted report, the generated weighted report comprising a display of bids having a best compliance with the client RFP document in top down order based on the comparative financial analysis, and providing the generated weighted report to the client. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20180025391 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE SERVICING AND VEHICLE VALUE ADJUSTMENTS | 01-25-2018 |
| 20190147514 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATION OF REMOTE INSPECTORS | 05-16-2019 |
| 20220138821 | Vehicular Service Request - Data Logging System and Method - A vehicular service request, log mapping, and bidding system according to the present invention preferably includes at least three and preferably four critical components, including an Electronic Logging Device or ELD; a Remote Service/ELD Provider Service; a mobile device exemplified by smart phone or tablet computer; and a Log Mapping Service. Log Mapping Services may be optionally provided by the Remote ELD Provider Service. The Electronic Logging Device or ELD, Remote Service/ELD Provider Service, and mobile communications device are preferably in communication with one another via network-based communication channels, while the ELD device | 05-05-2022 |
