100 results about "Group buying" patented technology

A number of sets of methods and apparatuses applicable to online shopping are disclosed. One set, “Bin Packing Methods with Approximate Membership”, includes methods in pricing and auctioning a bundle of items, some of which could belong to another bundle. Significantly, the membership of a bundle, during pricing and auction, could change. Another set, the “Shopping Console”, puts a structure into the online shopping experience, so that through one interface various shopping activities can be facilitated, including but not limited to researching, pricing, negotiation, group buying, and tracking of purchases. Still another set, “Flash Mob Shopping”, allows sellers and a (spontaneous) group of shoppers to connect on prices without requiring shoppers' hard commitments, and with sellers revealing only necessary price information.

A method and system are provided that enable partner sites to join in the sale of products / services via a PowerBuy business method. A seller registers a list of products / services to be displayed on partner sites. Customers / visitors who access partner sites may link to one or more PowerBuys conducted on an owner's main site. Accordingly, the method and system enable a super demand aggregation for products / services offered for sale by the PowerBuy business method. The invention provides a partner menu tree that allows partners to pre-select products / categories for display to customers linking to the PowerBuy from their partner site. Sellers may provide particular products, services, categories, and abstract terms to help partners select which products / services to display for customers from among all the PowerBuy products / services. The invention has applicability to sales paradigms other than the PowerBuy business method.

A method and system are provided that enable partner sites to join in the sale of products / services via an on-line group-buying sale business method. A seller registers a list of products / services to be displayed on partner sites. Customers / visitors who access partner sites may link to one or more on-line group-buying sales conducted on an owner's main site. Accordingly, the method and system enable a super demand aggregation for products / services offered for sale by the on-line group-buying sale business method. The invention provides a partner menu tree that allows partners to pre-select products / categories for display to customers linking to the on-line group-buying sale from their partner site. Sellers may provide particular products, services, categories, and abstract terms to help partners select which products / services to display for customers from among all the on-line group-buying sale products / services. The invention has applicability to sales paradigms other than the on-line group-buying sale business method.

A method and system are provided that enables a seller to reserve from a supplier a grouping of products (e.g., create a virtual inventory) for sale in an on-line group-buying sale. The supplier agrees to reserve an agreed quantity for an agreed time period. The seller conducts the group-buying sale offering the reserved product inventory to buyers. The seller and supplier then follow agreed upon procedures for shipping the products.

A number of sets of methods and apparatuses applicable to online shopping are disclosed. One set, “Bin Packing Methods with Approximate Membership”, includes methods in pricing and auctioning a bundle of items, some of which could belong to another bundle. Significantly, the membership of a bundle, during pricing and auction, could change. Another set, the “Shopping Console”, puts a structure into the online shopping experience, so that through one interface various shopping activities can be facilitated, including but not limited to researching, pricing, negotiation, group buying, and tracking of purchases. Still another set, “Flash Mob Shopping”, allows sellers and a (spontaneous) group of shoppers to connect on prices without requiring shoppers' hard commitments, and with sellers revealing only necessary price information.

Computer-implemented methods, systems facilitating the methods, and computer-readable medium storing computer readable code, which, when executed, performs the methods are provided for group-buying and social network services. The methods may include steps of (1) receiving a request from a host to initiate an event that requires a consumption of an item offered by a provider, (2) performing at least one of (a) sending invitations of the event to at least one guest selected by the host, and (b) causing display of an advertisement of the event to be viewed by general public or a particular group, (3) receiving acceptance of participating the event from at least one participant, and (4) informing the host and the at least one participant whether sales of the item is executed or rescinded.

The invention provides an internet crowdordering shopping method and device. The internet crowdordering shopping method comprises the steps that a marque, the number of crowdordering people and an initiator shipping address are submitted to generate and place an order; after an initiator pays the amount payable of the initiator, crowdordering order information is generated, and the crowdordering order information is sent to other users; after the number of people completing payment in the crowdordering order information reaches a preset number of people, a merchant of commodities deliveries the commodities according to the initiator shipping address. The merchant can divide one part of commodities into a plurality of independent small-sized packs according to the number of the crowdordering people, or the initiator sorts the commodities voluntarily. Because the commodities are only delivered to the initiator shipping address, the logistics cost borne by each crowdordering member is low, the weight of one-time purchased commodities can be reduced, waste and other problems are avoided, and the order success rate and the commodity transaction efficiency of current group buying are greatly improved.

A group offer is provided to a first-level recipient that meets a set of criteria. Further, the group offer is activated upon a consumer participant threshold being met, the consumer participant threshold equaling a number of consumers. In addition, a social incentive structure is established that provides a reward to the first-level recipient if the first-level recipient shares the group offer with a second-level recipient that (i) is in a social circle associated with the first-level recipient and (ii) meets a set of qualifications.

A method on a server for managing sales activities and group buying offers for a plurality of users over a communications network is disclosed. The method includes receiving sales transaction data from the users, receiving recruit enrollment data from the users, processing the sales transaction data and the recruit enrollment data to generate aggregate data pertaining to sales, transmitting the aggregate data to the users, receiving a group buying offer, transmitting the group buying offer to the users, receiving acceptances of the group buying offer, calculating a number of acceptances of the group buying offer, effectuating a sale of the product or service of the group buying offer to each of the users who accepted the offer, if the number of acceptances of the group buying offer is greater than a minimum number, and attributing a particular sale to a recruiter, so as to award a commission.

The invention discloses a system and method of group buying pattern balance and payment making use of the communication technique. The invention uses telephone numbers as marks of product buyers, adopts the transaction way of first payment plus preferential payment, and after the system gathers the first payment information, the statistics of practical transaction situations are made, and the preferential payment of network group buying is finished by making use of the accounting system of telecom operators based on the pattern balance situations. The invention has the advantages that the invention avoids the bad results caused by the inconsistency between the predicted transaction quantity and the practical transaction quantity in the network group buying, which achieves the best benefit distribution in network group buying between product buyers and product suppliers, and simplifies the process of network group buying, which is convenient for the participants of the group buying transaction and is beneficial to the development of network group buying, and can reduce the pattern balance and payment cost and efficiency of the group buying organizations and improve the efficiency of network group buying. The invention is particularly suitable for the network group buying websites and telecom operators.

A system and method for ensuring the quality of a group buying experience includes: receiving a request to sell a product; negotiating a service level agreement with the business; receiving customer feedback on the group buying experience; computing a customer satisfaction score for the group buying experience representing a degree of customer satisfaction; mapping the computed customer satisfaction score to terms in the service level agreement; and providing an instruction related to the customer satisfaction score.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to group aggregation leveraging methods and systems for consumers to buy products from a broker. The broker offers a product to consumers for a first fixed price for a predetermined time period. Once a predetermined number of consumers commit to purchasing the product (i.e., reach a threshold), the consumers receive the same product at a second fixed price wherein the second fixed price is less than the first fixed price. Once the threshold is met, each committed consumer receives an alert from the broker that the consumer will receive the same product at the new reduced price (second fixed price). This process is repeated until the predetermined time period expires or inventory of the product is depleted. Consumers may leverage their collective group buying power by communicating to others that the product is available for the predetermined time period through social media or any other suitable means.

The invention provides a method for shopping online, relating to the field of Internet, and is used for solving the problem that a user as a seller relatively blindly follow others on the aspects of price fixing and a stock amount during online group purchase in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps that S1, the user as the seller releases information on to-be-group-bought commodities on an Internet group-buying platform; S2, a user as a buyer selects the to-be-group-bought commodities from the Internet group-buying platform and inputs an anticipated price; S3, when a selected time reaches a first threshold, a notice is sent to a corresponding user as the seller; S4, the user as the seller sets the to-be-group-bought commodities as group-buying commodities, and sets a price and a quantity of the group-buying commodities according to the distribution of the anticipated price of each buyer; S5, the network group-buying platform is used for sending the notice to a specified user as the buyer who selects the to-be-group-bought commodities, the specified user as the buyer is the user as the buyer taking a group-buying price set by the user as the seller as a standard of an input anticipated price and setting an upward and downward floating scope in a second threshold; and S6, the group buying is started by the Internet group-buying platform.

An automated group promotion electronic system. A Group-Buy-Promotion (GBP) server and client system together with a product management back end database system are implemented. Deals based on the number of participants are created, posted and broadcasted. Dynamic market changes of a product-for-sale are tracked. Group buying and information broadcasting are automated with an ease of use. Credits are provided to customers who participate in a Deal at the end of a Deal to encourage group and volume purchases and are also tracked. Regardless a particular customer's purchasing power, whether a retail customer, a wholesale merchant or large scale government procurement; a participant, of any size, benefits from other customers participating in a particular Deal.

The invention discloses an authentication terminal of a group-buying voucher, an authentication system thereof and an authentication method thereof. The authentication terminal comprises a CPU, a data storage module, a mobile communication module, an input module, and a crystal display module. The input module is used for inputting a verification code of a group-buying voucher; the CPU is used for providing additional verification information and carrying out processing on the verification code and the additional verification information of the group-buying voucher so as to obtain authentication request data packet; the mobile communication module is used for sending the authentication request data packet formed by the CPU through a mobile communication network and receiving corresponded verification information; the data storage module is used for storing a verification record; and the crystal display module is used for displaying the verification result. According to the invention, an authentication terminal of a group buying voucher transmits data by a wireless mode; besides, the terminal is easy to operate and it is not easy to make mistakes; and the terminal has a wide application range.

The invention relates to a method for network group shopping. In the method, group shopping which registers and is approved in a network shopping platform is only allowed as an initiator; a group shopping event is launched within certain time limit; according to a list provided by the initiator, the network shopping platform sends an E-mail to each invitee of the list; a reset key of the E-mail is directly connected to an invited commodity introduction webpage of the network shopping platform for placing an order; and as all invitees participating in placing the order are familiar with the initiator, transaction dispute caused by unfamiliarity can be avoided.

The invention provides a group-buying method and a group-buying system, belongs to the technical field of communication, and aims to solve problems that the existing group-buying method is single in group-buying mode and cannot be flexibly adjusted according to user requirements. The group-buying method comprises the following steps: receiving a group-buying request initiated by a user; generating group-buying information which at least comprises the ID of a group-buying commodity according to the group-buying request of the user; transmitting the group-buying information to other users; and adjusting the starting time and finishing time of group-buying according to the number of the group-buying commodity ID browsing times.

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic commerce, in particular to an electronic commerce trading platform which comprises an intelligent agriculture platform, a planting whole industry chain service platform, a settlement center, a business development platform, an electronic commerce service platform and an electronic business control platform. The electronic commerce trading platform is an agricultural material product electronic commerce trading platform which provides professional services such as enterprise agricultural product on-line exhibition and spot sale, free trade and group buying for agricultural enterprises (economic subjects), agricultural means of production enterprises, agricultural cooperatives, large planting landlords, farmers, agricultural products circulation products, agricultural wholesale markets, commodity supermarkets, electronic commerce companies and customers. The agricultural means of production enterprises can issue agricultural material product supply information through the trading platform, the agricultural cooperatives, the large planting landlords, the farmers, agricultural production enterprises and the like can issue agricultural product supply information. Combined with the technology of the Internet of Tings, circulation of agricultural information is accelerated, agricultural benefits are improved, and agriculture industrialization construction is promoted. Channels for issuing and acquiring the supply and demand information of various agricultural products, agricultural technology knowledge and on-line agricultural product trading by the enterprises and persons are provided, and inferior agricultural material products are effectively prevented from entering in the market.

An embodiment of the invention discloses a method, a device and a system of processing group buying information, relating to the field of Internet technologies and solving the problems of limited group buying information provided by a single group buying information provider and difficulty in obtaining the needed group buying information by mobile terminal equipment in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps that a group buying information processing device obtains the group buying information from a network server of each group buying information provider so as to form first group buying information; the first group buying information is group buying information provided by at least two group buying information providers; an information browsing request transmitted by the mobile terminal equipment is received, and an information content corresponding to the information browsing request is obtained from the first group buying information; and the information content is transmitted to the mobile terminal equipment, so that the information content is displayed by the mobile terminal equipment. The method, the device and the system are suitable for online group buying of the mobile terminal equipment and the like.

When a customer who encounters a specific type of merchandise he / she wants by accident, he / she is able to use his / her wireless mobile device to ask for agreements from mobile electronic devices of neighboring people who want the same type of merchandise and to group his / her mobile electronic device with mobile electronic devices of people who respond with agreements, where the mobile electronic devices are grouped by using a wireless communication protocol. With the aid of grouping those people who want the specific type of merchandise, a group-buying action can be initiated, and a discount of the specific type of merchandise can be retrieved by the grouped people.

The invention discloses a tailoring method in the manufacturing course of group-buying uniform, which comprises the following steps: detaching bill with standard bill detaching and discharge bill detaching; discharging; proceeding original tailoring and pure tailoring. The standard bill detaching comprises the following steps: 1) inputting all bill detaching patterns of booking person into computer; 2) inputting the size standard and variation data; 3) arranging booking data from long cloth to short cloth and big chest around to small chest around automatically; obtaining different values based on not less than real standard and sequent standard corresponding to standard; adjusting the arrangement manually; combining file according the same or adjacent cutting value; displaying the sequent on the computer; generating tailoring number automatically; improving manufacturing efficiency; saving manufacturing time and cloth by 1.5%.

The invention provides a classified group buying system and a method. The method includes: a seller client starts and responds to a commodity sales transaction; a buyer client starts and responds to a commodity purchase transaction; and a classified group buying server presets a transaction condition, receives and matches transaction requests, and performs clearing of transaction businesses. According to the system and the method, the purchase requirements with multiple species and small quantities of a plurality of buyers are collected via the Internet, large-quantity purchase of multiple single species is formed, direct transaction with professional sellers is realized, and the transaction cost is reduced via the manner of classified group buying.

Disclosed is a system and method for incentivizing online consumers to engage in an online purchase transaction by maximizing the rewards, such as advantageous pricing, coupons, etc., that an online consumer may enjoy if they accept a higher level of risk, such as by making an offer to purchase a product or service early in its online promotional offering, and / or if they undertake certain promotional efforts that are designated by the seller of such product or service to promote the retailer's offering to their social media community.

The invention discloses an automatic ticketing system. The automatic ticketing system comprises an account setting module, a query module, a ticket booking module, a cashier module and a ticket checking module. The account setting module comprises a basic setting unit, a password setting unit and a mail subscription unit. The query module comprises a path query unit, an order query unit, a surrounding facility query unit and a selected-date remaining ticket query unit. The ticket booking module comprises a data selection unit, a single-item ordering unit, a joint ticket ordering unit, a group buying ordering unit and an order changing unit. The cashier module comprises a money collecting unit, a refunding unit and a change unit. The ticket checking module comprises a paper ticket unit and two-dimensional code unit. Due to the mode, the automatic ticketing system is easy to operate and brings convenience to tourists, and the working efficiency of ticketing personnel is improved.

The invention discloses a system and method for automatically establishing a city shop information library based on video analysis, searching and aggregation. The system comprises an automatic merchant information and group buying information searching and aggregating unit, a unit for establishing an ontology knowledge base of merchant types, a unit for obtaining merchant information to be classified, a unit for establishing a merchant information correcting word bank and correcting information and an automatic merchant information classifying unit. The automatic merchant information and group buying information searching and aggregating unit is used for searching and aggregating merchant information. The unit for establishing the ontology knowledge base of the merchant types is used for classifying unclassified merchant information. The unit for obtaining the merchant information to be classified is used for obtaining the merchant information to be classified in a wide range. The unit for establishing the merchant information correcting word bank and correcting the information is used for correcting the merchant information which is identified to be incorrect. The automatic merchant information classifying unit is used for automatically obtaining the correct type of the merchant information. By the adoption of the system and method for automatically establishing the city shop information library based on video analysis, searching and aggregation, execution is more convenient and more efficient, and information is more accurate.

A method and system are provided that enable partner sites to join in the sale of products / services via an on-line group-buying sale business method. A seller registers a list of products / services to be displayed on partner sites. Customers / visitors who access partner sites may link to one or more on-line group-buying sales conducted on an owner's main site. Accordingly, the method and system enable a super demand aggregation for products / services offered for sale by the on-line group-buying sale business method. The invention provides a partner menu tree that allows partners to pre-select products / categories for display to customers linking to the on-line group-buying sale from their partner site. Sellers may provide particular products, services, categories, and abstract terms to help partners select which products / services to display for customers from among all the on-line group-buying sale products / services. The invention has applicability to sales paradigms other than the on-line group-buying sale business method.

The invention discloses a community group buying management system, which comprises a group buying management module, a group leader client, a group buying applet and an order distribution module; thegroup buying management module is used for creating and editing group buying activities; the group leader client is used for the group leader of the community to publish group buying information in the community group and manage the delivery information of the group buying order of the community; the group buying applet is used for checking group buying activities of a community where a consumeris located and entering the group buying activities to buy commodities; and the order distribution module is used for generating a distribution order according to the group purchase order of the consumers in the community and distributing the commodities to the receiving address of the group leader. The community group purchase management system can reduce the logistics cost and improve the marketing effect.

A mobile group-buying system and its implementing method comprises a group-buying server and a plurality of mobile communication devices. Each of the mobile communication device is individually installed a group-buying APP the execution of which can allow at least two mobile group-buying devices to be connected together to form a group-buying group. Further, initiator of the buying group can create a group-buying information through the group-buying APP, and the group-buying information is issued to each participant of the buying group so as to perform group-buying. Furthermore, the group-buying server records group-buying behavior of each mobile communication device and generates a group-buying record list. Thus, the present invention enables users actively launch a group-buying to specific commodity, so as to improve the problem of limitation on commodity selection imposed in conventional group-buying system.

An online group buying system comprises a main server and a client terminal connected with the main server. The main server comprises a database module, an intelligent match module and a guarantee payment verification module. The client terminal comprises an information release module, a group buying participation module, a retrieval request module, and a guarantee payment module. The information release module, the group buying participation module, the retrieval request module, the guarantee payment module, the intelligent match module and the guarantee payment verification module are respectively connected with the database module. The online group buying system is characterized by further comprising a network countdown synchronous system which is connected with the main server, and transmits accurate countdown information to the main server. After a client computer receives countdown time informed by the main server through network transmission, the countdown time is displayed on an output device of the client computer in a proper time format, and precision errors between the output content and the time informed by the server is in millisecond grade.

The invention relates to the internet field and provides a subdirectory website, characterized in that, a subdirectory is provided in a website server, the subdirectory database comprises a plurality of sub databases which comprise at least secondhand databases, recruitment databases and training databases, product databases, IT product databases, group buying databases and other databases, the database has a page starting device on an internet terminal node, the device can show a plurality of push buttons on the internet terminal computer page, each push button is as a starting device, the information can be transferred to a server after the mouse is affirmed, the sub database in a classifying database corresponding the push button is started by the start device of the server, when inputting the keyword, the key word can be searched from the sub database, and the searching information can be published on an internet node terminal display.