Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
705260430 | Representative agent | 67 |
20100306081 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORDERING GOODS, SERVICES AND CONTENT OVER AN INTERNETWORK USING A VIRTUAL PAYMENT ACCOUNT - A virtual payment system for paying for goods, services and content ordered over an internetwork comprising a commerce gateway component and a credit processing server component ( | 12-02-2010 |
20110071922 | Systems and Methods to Facilitate Online Transactions - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate online transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a communication interface to receive an input from a merchant; a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of controllers for delivery of premium messages sent by the system to collect funds for purchases made by customers; and a common format processor coupled with the plurality of converters to send the premium messages. The common format processor determines a combination of one or more premium messages, in response to a first customer making a first purchase from the merchant at a first price. The total price of the one or more premium messages is based on the first price and a portion of service charges associated with the one or more premium messages, where the portion is specified by the input received via the interface. | 03-24-2011 |
20110106662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING INTERACTIVE ONLINE SHOPPING - Disclosed herein is a method for administering a live, online, interactive shopping event. The method may comprise providing a web page on an interface of a host device through which at least one potential buyer and an event host may interact, representing the at least one potential buyer by an avatar displayed within the web page, displaying an image of an item being sold within the web page, displaying a live video stream provided by the event host within the web page, wherein the live video stream is displayed to the at least one potential buyer, and providing for the at least one potential buyer to at least one of view, discuss, and purchase the item being sold within the web page, the purchasing process being initiated by an action taken by the at least one potential buyer on the web page. | 05-05-2011 |
20110137751 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN PARTIES ON THE INTERNET USING E-MAIL - A payment system and method are disclosed for processing financial exchanges over a network between a merchant and a buyer. For example, receiving from a merchant, over the network, information associated with a financial transaction and non-financial data relating to a buyer involved in the financial transaction. Authorizing payment, associated with the financial transaction, to the merchant on behalf of the buyer using the non-financial data related to the buyer. A notification of the authorized payment on behalf of the buyer is sent to the merchant over the network. Upon notification from the merchant that the buyer has committed to completing the financial transaction, processing payment to the merchant on behalf of the buyer. | 06-09-2011 |
20110295715 | Sales System and System Management Device - This sales system includes a personal information management means managing personal information of the user in association with a one-time ID issued by an issuing means and disclosing information other than that allowing specification of the user himself/herself included in personal information corresponding to the one-time ID. | 12-01-2011 |
20110313886 | SALES SYSTEM AND SALES MANAGEMENT METHOD - A sales system according to an embodiment includes a sales management device and a license management device. When a recording medium on which a digital content is recorded has been sold from a final seller to an end user through the distribution channel of the recording medium, the sales management device communicates the sales information to the license management device. On condition that the sales information has been communicated from the sales management device, the license management device provides a license for enabling the use of the digital content to the user terminal. When the recording medium has been sold to the end user, the sales management device supports transferring part of the sales price of the recording medium to the intermediate seller involving the distribution of the recording medium. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320316 | PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS - Disclosed are payment system and methods. | 12-29-2011 |
20120059737 | DISTRESSED PROPERTIES MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computerized system and method is presented that allows selling agents to market a listing agent's distressed property listings even though the selling agents work for a different broker than the listing agent. The owner of the property may restrict the selling agents that may market their property. In one embodiment, the owner selects a qualified lender, and the pool of selling agents who may market that property is limited to selling agents who are associated in the computerized system with the qualified lender. The system allows selling agents to schedule open houses for distressed properties listed by the listing agent, with the system preventing two selling agents from scheduling open houses that conflict with one another. The system tracks the marketing activity of agents, which can be used to suggest listing agents to owners, or to restrict the ability of selling agents to market properties. | 03-08-2012 |
20120078753 | Business Transaction Network System - A network business transaction system includes a foreground system and a background system. The foreground system has an order module. The background system has a commodity management module for sellers to share their own commodities with other sellers for consignment sale, and to share commodities of the other sellers in their own online stores for selling as agent for buyers to shop and purchase. When the commodity is owned by the seller, the commodity management module notifies the seller for account processing and commodity delivery processing. When the commodity is a commodity for consignment sale, the commodity management module notifies the original seller of the commodity who owned the commodity for account processing and commodity delivery processing. Therefore, each seller in the system can determine whether its commodities are willing to share with other sellers for consignment sale to ensure better product circulation. | 03-29-2012 |
20120130855 | MICRO-PAYMENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE - A micro-payment system has buyers, sellers, and a broker. The buyers establish accounts with the broker and provide payment information allowing the broker to invoice the buyers. The sellers establish accounts with the brokers and specify terms for accessing items, including electronic content, available from the sellers. The sellers also provide payment information that allows the broker to credit the sellers for sales of the items. The broker aggregates the buyers' micro-payment purchases and invoices the buyers. The broker also aggregates the sellers' micro-payment sales and credits the sellers. | 05-24-2012 |
20120136754 | AUTOMATIC TAB PAYMENT FROM A USER DEVICE - A method includes receiving a menu of items offered for sale by a merchant, where the menu of items permits a user, of a user device, to place an order with an attendant, associated with the merchant, that includes an item of the menu of items; receiving information associated with the order that was placed with the attendant, where the information associated with the order includes the item and a price associated with the item; receiving an instruction to pay for the order; retrieving, in response to the instruction, payment information to be used to pay the price associated with the item; sending, to a server device, the payment information to permit the server device to process the payment information to pay for the order, where the sending is performed in a manner that does not permit the attendant to access the payment information; and receiving an indication that the payment information was processed. | 05-31-2012 |
20120166311 | DEFERRED PAYMENT AND SELECTIVE FUNDING AND PAYMENTS - A user is able to change one or more payment options after payment has already been made to a merchant. A payment provider processes a payment request during a transaction with the merchant with default or selected payment options. After the transaction with the merchant is completed and the merchant has been paid, the user may change one or more of the payment options, such as funding source(s) and terms/conditions of payment (e.g., deferment period, installment period/amount, etc.). During the transaction, the user may make a purchase through the payment provider even if the user does not have an account with the payment provider by providing user information, such as name, address, phone number, email address, and date of birth, but not a social security number or funding source information. | 06-28-2012 |
20120239532 | METHOD FOR SHOWCASING A BUILT-UP STRUCTURE AND AN APPARATUS ENABLING THE AFOREMENTIONED METHOD - There is provided a method for showcasing a built-up structure with at least one room. It is advantageous that the user is able to view the interior of the built-up structure by accessing and navigating about a single panoramic image for each room. An apparatus enabling the method and a method of using a work product of the method for showcasing a built-up structure with at least one room is also provided. | 09-20-2012 |
20120296774 | COMPLIANCE MANAGER - An estimate compliance tool specifying estimate compliance criteria is presented. The estimate compliance can be accessed via hardware, software or a combination thereof. The tool can be configured to include functions facilitating creation of rules that outline criteria for estimate creation or invoicing. A user can enter vehicle and parts identification via a user interface to which a rule will apply. The user can also enter a rule requirement or suggestion. The compliance tool can include multiple modules configured to accept user input regarding vehicle or parts criteria or configured to create an estimate compliance rule based on the vehicle or parts criteria. The compliance tool can further include a storage medium configured to store multiple estimate compliance rules and a profile module. The profile module creates a rules profile comprising multiple estimate compliance rules. Additionally, the tool provides a compatibility module that checks compliance rules for conflicting rule criteria. | 11-22-2012 |
20120310779 | Electronic Commercial Transaction Systems and Methods for Soliciting and Collecting Gratuities and Donations - An electronic commercial transaction system and associated methods, in which the transaction is conducted concurrently with or followed by a solicitation for either a gratuity for the seller or a charitable donation to be forwarded to a third party beneficiary. | 12-06-2012 |
20120316993 | Method and system for pricing and exchange of streams of data stored on tags readable by electronic means, streams of data in digital messages, and streams of data from electronic devices - The invention provides a method and system to enable buyers and sellers of data items associated with data streams housed on electronically readable data tags or data streams contained within digitally transmissible messages or data streams generated by devices capable of implementing computer readable code to set, manage, and collect fees for the one or a plurality of data items and for the processing, collection, and posting of the one or a plurality of data items. It further provides a method for collection of fees and posting data from data streams to datasets through electronic devices capable of implementing computer readable code. It further provides a method for electronic devices capable of implementing computer readable code to write data into electronic messages or onto electronically readable data tags or to other electronic devices capable of running computer readable code. | 12-13-2012 |
20130006812 | MICRO-PAYMENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE - A micro-payment system has buyers, sellers, and a broker. The buyers establish accounts with the broker and provide payment information allowing the broker to invoice the buyers. The sellers establish accounts with the brokers and specify terms for accessing items, including electronic content, available from the sellers. The sellers also provide payment information that allows the broker to credit the sellers for sales of the items. The broker aggregates the buyers' micro-payment purchases and invoices the buyers. The broker also aggregates the sellers' micro-payment sales and credits the sellers. | 01-03-2013 |
20130054417 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS AGGREGATING MICROPAYMENTS IN A MOBILE DEVICE - Various aspects include methods and devices for aggregating a number of micro-payment transactions within a secure memory of a purchaser's computing device to enable completion of micropayment electronic commerce transactions with reduce the number of fund transfers and verification messages. Transactions in which a purchaser pays a micropayment (i.e., <$1.00) are aggregated over time in a purchaser's computing device. Eventually accumulated transaction information is downloaded to a trusted payment authority for settlement. The trusted payment authority pays the merchant for all aggregated transactions in a single funds transfer. Transactions among many purchasers may also be aggregated into a single funds transfer. By aggregating micropayments within the purchaser's computing device, the amount of money involved in transactions processed through the payment authority can become large enough to justify the transactions costs of exchanging money between the purchaser and various merchants. The aspects enable business to economically charge and receive micropayment amounts. | 02-28-2013 |
20130124365 | DYNAMIC MERCHANDISING CONNECTION SYSTEM - Mechanisms are provided for efficiently and effectively connecting users such as customers, consumers, and clients with remote agents such as salespeople, assistants, personal shoppers, etc., by using a merchandising interface in store, shop, and showroom environments. A merchandising connection system identifies and analyzes characteristics of users, target products, and remote agents, and matches users and remote agents using data such as demographic information, common interests, compatible personality types, areas of expertise, attractiveness levels, etc. Various sensors, detectors, actuators, scent emitters, etc., at the merchandising interface work to enhance the user and remote agent connection. | 05-16-2013 |
20130211962 | VIRTUAL SHOPPING ASSISTANT - A method and system for purchasing an item includes registering identification and credit card information of a shopper with a third party purchasing system, selecting a desired item in a store by a shopper, and sending information identifying the item and its price to the third party purchasing system. The third party purchasing system conducts a search for the item on the internet and analyzes the results of the search via the microprocessor to determine prices of the item. The system then compares the lowest price of the item found in the search with the price of the item sent by the shopper and purchases with the shopper's credit card information the item having the lowest price based on the search, when the lowest price is lower than the price submitted by the shopper. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211963 | Facilitation of interaction between providers, buyers, and agents - Systems and methods for sellers of goods and services for providing information relating to existence and features of what they provide, to buyers using a system as herein described that enables a buyer to identify and obtain collections of information that comprise a subset of the contents of a database having multiple records provided by a plurality of sellers. A seller may use a conventional home or office computer including without limitation PC's and MACINTOSH™ computers, tablets and smartphones to transmit information to a system as provided, which is accessible to users also via a conventional home or office computer. A user specifies desired criteria and the system provides the user a subset of information upon which further decisions by the user can be made. In some embodiments, systems and methods provided relate to information concerning the inventory of new home construction in a selected region, which region may include a general metropolitan area. | 08-15-2013 |
20130282525 | METHOD TO FACILITATE THE ORDERING OF PRODUCTS - A method to facilitate the ordering of products offered for sale on a merchant's website by a user through an agent is provided. The method includes the steps of collecting, on the user processing device, data permitting an identification of a first merchant's website being viewed by the user and an identification of a first product presented on this website (first identification data) automatically by executing a computer program; and transferrin, from the user processing device to an agent processing device, the first identification data. | 10-24-2013 |
20130325663 | Proxy Shopping Registry - Methods and systems are provided for facilitating purchases by one person for another person. A user can take advantage of one or more social networks to facilitate purchases by proxy shoppers for the user. For example, the user can designate what products can be purchased by a proxy shopper and what stores can be used by the proxy shopper to make the purchases. The products can be listed in a registry on the user's social network. When the proxy shopper is in a designated store, the proxy shopper can purchase a designated products for the user. | 12-05-2013 |
20140046798 | System and Method for Supporting Mobile Unit Connectivity for Computer Server to Process Specific Orders - The present invention is an applications gateway that offers multiple functions and features for specific geographic venue locations, while providing easy access to advertising, purchasing, and redemption opportunities for that specific geographic venue location. Venue locations can be stadiums, shopping malls, amusement parks, open air spaces where people can congregate, and/or buildings, which most often require the presence of a concentration of people. The venue location may correlate to the location of the hand-held mobile unit or it may be a remote geographic venue location not near the location of the hand-held mobile unit. Access to the gateway application is through a hand-held mobile unit, which can include a mobile phone, smartphone device, or portable computer having a wireless radio transmission connection. (e.g. iPhone, Droid, iPad, Slate, etc.) | 02-13-2014 |
20140046799 | System and Method for Supporting Mobile Unit Connectivity for Computer Server to Process Specific Orders - The present invention is an applications gateway that offers multiple functions and features for specific geographic venue locations, while providing easy access to advertising, purchasing, and redemption opportunities for that specific geographic venue location. Venue locations can be stadiums, shopping malls, amusement parks, open air spaces where people can congregate, and/or buildings, which most often require the presence of a concentration of people. The venue location may correlate to the location of the hand-held mobile unit or it may be a remote geographic venue location not near the location of the hand-held mobile unit. Access to the gateway application is through a hand-held mobile unit, which can include a mobile phone, smartphone device, or portable computer having a wireless radio transmission connection. (e.g. iPhone, Droid, iPad, Slate, etc.) | 02-13-2014 |
20140095356 | Enhanced Microgift System and Method of Operation - A computer system implements a gifting service where a gift of a specific item is validated as a result of the gift recipient requesting a validation code be delivered to the merchant for confirmation. The validation code can be a code defined by the gift recipient or the code management system, and may include credit card PAN's, ordinary codes, or pictures of the gift recipient. Enhancements to assist merchants in certifying training of employees are also provided. | 04-03-2014 |
20140136370 | System and Method for Optimization of Lease Management and Operation - The present invention concerns a system and method that includes use of a mobile computing device having a visual display and means to run a software application installed on it that includes a front-end interface that provides a step-by-step tool to both collect information from a prospective renter, an algorithm for optimizing available property selection using the information collected by the prospect, and presentation of media and information about the property and neighborhood to the prospect in an integrated way. The application further includes communications functionality that allow communications with a data cloud that both delivers appropriate media for display by the application as well as storage of any information collected from the prospect via the application. The system then uses the information to generate reports and provide analytics to prospects, leasing agents, leasing managers and building owners based on the information most relevant and important to them. | 05-15-2014 |
20140149254 | INTERNET TRANSACTION AND USER INTERFACE THEREFOR - A user account including a personal profile is stored by a server for subsequent use. The user is provided a list of displayable entries sortable using specified criteria in a manner that allows the user to review a selection of entries and to make a change to the selection prior to submitting a transaction for processing. Responsive to a request to log into the user account, the identity of the user is verified. Once verified, the transaction is facilitated between a vendor and the user pursuant to instructions from the user. The instructions are generated based on a shopping cart screen rendered by a client device of the user. The user is sent a confirmation message regarding the transaction while the user is logged in the server. The user can be provided an account screen allowing access to information relating to user transactions and information relating to an account balance. | 05-29-2014 |
20140164182 | PERSONAL SERVICE ASSISTANCE IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - A method of providing personal service assistance in a virtual universe is disclosed. The method provides a customer avatar (CA) access to a personal assistance avatar or personal customer service representative (PCSR) avatar, hereinafter PCSR avatar. Through the PCSR avatar, the CA communicates a need or requests for personal service assistance from a business or organization. The communication of the received request is processed to identify an appropriate business, organization or vendor that meets the need or request. The identified business, organization or vendor is contacted for a representative from the business to accede to the request from the CA. The representative from the business is allowed to assume control of the PCSR avatar to conduct the session necessary for rendering the assistance or transaction. Upon completion of the session, control of the PCSR avatar is reverted to that prior to the session. | 06-12-2014 |
20140180872 | PURCHASE SUMMARY THROUGH EMAIL SCAN SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for a purchase summary through email scan are described. The methods include accessing an email for a user, wherein the email includes a transaction history corresponding to a purchased item from a merchant, determining item and sales information from the transaction history, and updating a purchase summary display corresponding to the user with the item and sales information, wherein the purchase summary display includes account information corresponding to a plurality of items. The account information may include at least one of a total number of items purchased by the user, a total money spent by the user, a number of different categories of purchase by the user, and a number of different merchants purchased from by the user. Additionally, the purchase summary display may be used to offer additional items, engage in price matching, and/or sell purchased items. | 06-26-2014 |
20140214614 | CONSULTATIVE ONLINE SALE OF BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - A system for transacting business applications among a prospective buyer, a provider, and a third-party partner includes a server including one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs, the one or more programs including instructions to: provide for display of an interface of an online store of business applications, the online stored being accessible by the prospective buyer, the provider, and the third-party partner; in response to receiving a request for a business application from the prospective buyer, retrieve a profile of the prospective buyer; identify information of users who have similar profiles to the profile of the prospective buyer based on purchase history; analyze the purchase history of the identified users; determine a configuration of the business application based on the analysis; and provide the configuration of the business application to the prospective buyer as a recommendation. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222620 | SOCIAL MEDIA REAL ESTATE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computerized system and method is presented that integrates a dedicated platform for sharing real estate information with a social networking platform. Buyers can search for properties on the dedicated platform and identify certain properties as favorite (or selected) properties. The buyer also identifies their friends on a social networking platform, who then access information about the buyer's favorite properties through an app interface provided through the social networking platform. Friends and the buyer can engage in a conversation about a particular property along with an agent and a lender that work with the buyer on the dedicated platform. Users can participate in and view the conversation either through the app interface of the social networking platform or through the dedicated platform. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236765 | 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. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244438 | Eyeglass Frames - The present application provides improved eyeglass frames for enhanced comfort, personalization, and aesthetics. The eyeglass frames comprise temples that are proximal to a lens supporting element and temples that are distal to the lens supporting element. The proximal and distal temples form an angle that appears as an upside down “V.” In some embodiments, the frame material is rigid and the angles are fixed. In other embodiments, the frames articulate or pivot in one or more of three locations: between the proximal temple and the frame, between the proximal and distal temples, and between the distal temple and the ear rest. In other embodiments, the frames further comprise attachment elements for attaching ornaments or functional devices. | 08-28-2014 |
20140279236 | Method for Enabling a Co-Branded Professional eCommerce Program - A computer-implemented method of creating and maintaining an online store, comprising the steps of establishing a master account at a system server; establishing a first account, the settings of the first account being stored in a database, wherein the first account is initiated through the master account; establishing a second account, the settings of the second account being stored in the database, wherein the second account is initiated through the first account, the second account having a link to an online store; relating the master, first, and second accounts such that purchases made at the online store are recorded and tracked at the master, first, and second accounts and control settings of the second account are determined through the master account; processing purchases made at the online store by the master account; and sharing revenue from the online store purchases by the master, first, and second account. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279237 | System and Method for Facilitating Consumer Association with Transaction Agent - A system for facilitating association of a consumer with a transaction agent includes a database server accessible over a communications network and configured to store data comprising either of a buyer lead pool, and selling agent lead pool. The database server is accessible by an application server having a web application that allows a consumer to indicate whether the consumer is interested in buying a property or in selling property. In the former case, the system sends a message to the listing agency whereupon the listing agent may access, or “claim,” the buyer's data, and allows non-listing agents to claim the data if the listing agent declines. In case the consumer desires to sell property, the system notifies all agents within the relevant geographic area corresponding to the property and allows a consumer to interview candidate agents. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279238 | Facilitation of Authorized In-Store Pickup in Conjunction with Online Ordering - Technologies are described herein for the facilitation of authorized in-store pickup in conjunction with online ordering. A request to process an order of an item selected by a customer and placed through a website may be received. The website may be transformed to a cart fulfillment web page including a fulfillment interface. Through the fulfillment interface, a selection of an option for in-store pickup by a third party may be received from the customer. Through the fulfillment interface, identifying information regarding the third party, pickup details associated with the in-store pickup of the item by the third party, and a preferred notification method for contacting the third party may also be received from the customer. An authorization pickup record related to the in-store pickup of the item by the third party may be generated. The authorization pickup record may be transmitted to the third party via the preferred notification method. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279239 | Computer Implemented Search System - An informational and educational blog within a platform that acts as a marketplace for booking appointments for services desired by a user comprising compiling a database of companies available for the user to search, the database comprising a profile about each company, including the category of services, the location of the company and the available appointments for the services, a search platform accessible by a user operating a computer or a mobile device, the platform allowing the user to search by a category of service, name of a company, location, or date and time available for an appointment, the platform comprising a chat option whereby the user can contact a platform agent to arrange available appointments. | 09-18-2014 |
20140316943 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING AN E-COMMERCE PROVIDER WITH THIRD-PARTY VENDORS - A computer implemented method and apparatus for integrating e-commerce providers with third-party vendors. The method comprises receiving an order from one vendor of a plurality of vendors, wherein the order comprises a vendor identification, a fulfillment identification, and a vendor stock keeping unit (SKU), and wherein a plurality of the vendors each has a unique communication protocol; mapping the fulfillment identification to a user identification (userID) known to a provider; mapping the vendor SKU to a provider SKU; generating a provisioning call responsive to the mapping; and provisioning the SKU for the userID in a database of the provider in response to the provisioning call. | 10-23-2014 |
20150032571 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CROSS-BORDER TRANSACTION BUYING ASSISTANCE - In various embodiments, a system and method for providing cross-border transaction buying assistance are provided. In example embodiments, an option is presented to a cross-border buyer to purchase an item from a domestic networked commerce system using a buying agent. Based on a purchase of the item using the buying agent, instructions are sent to a seller of the item to ship the item to a domestic location corresponding to the buying agent. Once received by the buying agent, the buying agent is responsible for managing delivery of the item to the cross-border buyer from the domestic location. | 01-29-2015 |
20150052016 | SECURELY AND EFFICIENTLY PROCESSING TELEPHONE ORDERS - An apparatus for processing telephone orders includes a communications module that establishes a telephonic connection between a customer service representative of a merchant and a customer, and an identification module that receives an identifier linking the customer to a billing profile a billing profile access module that receives electronic access to the billing profile. The billing profile includes billing information of the customer. The apparatus includes a transaction module that processes a sales order using the billing profile of the customer in response to a customer approval of the sales order. The sales order is for a product and/or a service offered by the merchant. The billing information of the billing profile is unavailable for viewing by the customer service representative. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052017 | ONLINE STORE ENTITLEMENTS - A system receives input from a seller agent of a first business organization and a centralized purchasing agent of a second business organization. The second business organization includes a plurality of decentralized business departments. The system generates an entitlement for an online purchasing site using the input from the seller agent and the input from the purchasing agent. The entitlement includes a validity condition and an impact condition. The system receives an input from one of the decentralized business departments, examines the validity conditions of the purchased entitlement, and in response to a determination that the validity conditions of the purchased entitlement are met, executes the impact conditions of the selected entitlement. | 02-19-2015 |
20150088689 | Product Recognition Platform - The method is a method for product recognition. The method includes receiving a product search request from a user. The method also includes performing an automatic search to identify the product. The method also includes generating an automatic search result. The method also includes analyzing an automatic search result of the automatic search to verify that the automatic search result satisfies a criterion for sending to the user. The method also includes sending the product search request to a human operator in response to a determination that the automatic search result fails to satisfy the criterion. The method also includes receiving an operator search result from the human operator. The method also includes sending the operator search result to the user. | 03-26-2015 |
20150100461 | Robotic System Controlled by Multi Participants - Mobile robotic system allows multiple users to visit authentic places without physically being there. Users with variable requirements are able to take part in controlling a single controllable device simultaneously; users take part in controlling robot's movement according to their interest. A system administrator selects and defines criteria for robot's movement; the mobile robot with video and audio devices on it is remotely controlled by a server which selects the robot's movement according to the users and system administrator criteria. The server provides information to users; the robot's location influences the content of the information. Such robotic system may be used for shopping, visiting museums and other public touristic attractions over the Internet. | 04-09-2015 |
20150127488 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MATCHING REAL ESTATE AGENTS AND CLIENTS - Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for a centralized interface where real estate agents, home buyers, and home sellers may interact with one another. The centralized interface may present information associated with a property a home seller desires to sell, features associated with a property that a home buyer desires to purchase, a real estate agent's commission rate, and information associated with the quality of the real estate agents, which may affect the price the home buyer buys or home seller sells their property. | 05-07-2015 |
20150149322 | INFORMATION TRANSACTION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION TRANSACTION METHOD - Provided is an information transaction apparatus including a receiving unit, a storage unit, and a transaction unit. The receiving unit receives user information on an information provider or a provider terminal from the provider terminal used by the information provider. The storage unit stores the user information received by the receiving unit in a user information memory unit. In the case of accepting an acquisition request for the user information from a user terminal used by an information user, the transaction unit controls a transaction process of providing the user information corresponding to the acquisition request to the user terminal and paying a reward to the information provider which is a transmission source of the provided user information based on factor information which affects a value of the user information stored in the user information memory unit. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294386 | ASSISTED SHOPPING - Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating an assisted shopping experience. A speech input can be captured and transcribed. The transcribed speech input can be transmitted to a customer service agent in a data session that is contemporaneous with a voice session. The customer service agent can then facilitate an assisted shopping experience via the voice session and data session. | 10-15-2015 |
20150348153 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SINGLE INPUT FIELD HAVING MULTIPLE PROCESSING POSSIBILITIES - Disclosed herein are methods for providing a buy option to search results. That one location for a search field can be a website, an application, a search bar in a web browser, etc. Rather than navigating to a website to perform a search in the context of that website, a user can instead navigate to or open a generalized search field. Via the generalized search field, the system can analyze the input from the user and the resulting context. A buy button can be included a search result to the user input in the input search field. Payment for an item can be processing using a payment account registered with the system with delivery coordinated from a separate merchant. This approach reduces the number of interactions, starting when the user opens a browser or application, to get to a purchase or a search result. | 12-03-2015 |
20150363852 | VIRTUALIZED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OFFERING VIRTUAL PRODUCTS OR SERVICES - In a virtualized distribution system for offering virtual products or services to clients over a distributed network a service provider manages physical resources. One or more orchestration servers having access to the physical resources run cloud management software that maintain a service providers portal to permit the service provider to manage the physical resources and accounts for distribution partners, a partner portal to permit the distribution partners to create virtual products or services using the available physical resources and establish a virtual presence on said distributed network, and a client portal for offering to clients the virtual products or services created by the distribution partners through their virtual presence. In this way product distribution can be offered as a service, which emulates the manner in which real products and services are distributed through a traditional distribution chain. | 12-17-2015 |
20150379602 | LEAD RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and system for providing lead recommendations are disclosed. A server system stores profile information for a plurality of members of a server system. The server system then analyzes the stored profile information to identify one or more potential sales lead recommendations for a first member of the server system. The server system then ranks the one or more identified potential sales lead recommendations. The server system selects one or more of the identified sales lead recommendations and transmits the selected one or more identified sales lead recommendations to a client device associated with the first member of the server system. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379603 | ACCOUNT RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and system for providing account recommendations is disclosed. A server system stores sales data for a first member, wherein sales data includes profile information for one or more individual customers. The sewer system analyzes the profile information for one or more of the individual customers to identify one attributes associated with the customers. The server system determines one or more additional members with member profiles that include the one or more identified attributes. For a respective additional member in the at least one of the determined additional members the sewer system determines, based on stored information about the respective additional member, an respective organization associated with the at least one determined additional member; and selects the respective organization as an account recommendation. | 12-31-2015 |
20160034995 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED INDENTIFICATION AND ENGAGEMENT OF SERVICE PROVIDERS - The current document is directed to methods and systems that identify projects for which service consumers desire service provision and identify available candidate service providers that best match various project parameters and service-provision criteria determined by the automated system. Information describing the identified candidate service providers is presented to the service consumers by the systems to allow service consumers in order to facilitate their selection of service providers and scheduling of service provision. In one described implementation, service providers are matched to stock-keeping-unit (“SKU”) identifiers and location or locations. Service providers identified in the initial SKU-and-location-based matching process are then scored and ranked according to additional criteria and constraints, with information describing the highest-ranked service candidate providers provided to service consumers for selection and scheduling. | 02-04-2016 |
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20160078514 | TRADE MATCHING SYSTEM OF CONSUMER AND SUPPLIER AND METHOD THEREOF - A trade matching system of consumer and supplier includes a user terminal which transfers the product information the consumer has to the server, and executes the transaction procedure using the information retrieved from the server, a site server which displays the product information sent from the consumer on the display unit, transmits the supplier's product information if it is a match to the consumer's requests, and processes the transactions, delivering the results to both user and supplier terminal if the consumer decides to purchase the product, and a supplier terminal which provides the specifications, the price, the delivery options, and other information of the identical or similar product the consumer decides to purchase, and receives the result of the transaction. | 03-17-2016 |
20160110830 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING CROSS-APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY AMONG ARTIST SPECIFIC CLIENT APPLICATIONS - The disclosure relates to systems and methods for facilitating cross-application functionality among artist specific client applications. Each artist specific application may be created and branded for an artist and may provide artist content such as music, which may be available only through the artist specific application. To facilitate a seamless user experience when multiple artist specific applications are installed at a user device, the artist specific applications may share information with one another so that a user may use a given artist specific application to interact with content provided by different artist specific applications. For example, a first artist specific application may display a selectable list of songs played by a second artist specific application. Selection of a song may cause the second artist specific application to be opened to play the selected song seamlessly without requiring the user to open the second artist specific application. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117744 | A RETAIL SYSTEM - A retailing system for providing interaction between a customer and a retailer to assist in the completion of a sale, comprising, a customer interface arranged to display to a customer information about at least one item, an input module arranged to receive input regarding a potential sale of the at least one item from the customer for provision to a database via a communications system, wherein the database is arranged to provide the input from the customer to at least one other user associated with the retailer on a retailer interface viewable by the at least one other user, wherein the at least one other user utilises the interface to review the input and interact with the customer to assist in the completion of the sale. | 04-28-2016 |
20160125398 | SECURELY AND INSTANTLY CONVERTING DIGITAL WALLET VALUE TO PHYSICAL GOLD BULLION - Disclosed is a system related to a software platform that implements an algorithm for facilitating an instant and secure digital value transaction within a network. The digital wallet value of user(s) is converted into a virtual currency and the consolidated pricing feed of the gold bullion counterparties are computed. Further, the converted virtual currency is matched with the consolidated pricing feed of the gold bullion counterparties and based on the matching criteria an invoice can be generated for the user to purchase the gold. The generated invoice is further confirmed or secured by performing multiple signatures from different stake holders involved in the digital value transaction. Different stakeholders involved in the transaction include a server implementing the algorithm, users interested in digital value transaction, and the network through which the transaction happens. The completed digital value transaction is published on the communication device for the user to purchase gold. | 05-05-2016 |
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20160155174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SINGLE INPUT FIELD HAVING MULTIPLE PROCESSING POSSIBILITIES | 06-02-2016 |
20160155175 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SINGLE INPUT FIELD HAVING MULTIPLE PROCESSING POSSIBILITIES | 06-02-2016 |
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20160379287 | VENDING MACHINE WITH USER ID/AGE VERIFICATION SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A system, method and computer program product offers vending machine merchandise located within a vending machine network by performing the following process: a host server receiving from a first user, located at a merchandise vending machine, a request to retrieve an item; in response to receiving the request, the host server locating the item; the host server communicating the request to a second user belonging to a friendship network of the first user and notifying the second user that the item is located at a merchandise vending machine; upon receiving from the second user an acceptance to the request, the host server notifying the first user that the acceptance of the request was received; and in accordance with terms and conditions of the second user acceptance of the offer, the host server transmitting a temporary code to the first user for retrieving the item. | 12-29-2016 |