33 results about "Group Purchasing" patented technology

The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method / system for facilitating communications between service providers and potential customers for services. The computer-implemented method / system provides a marketplace for interactions, both online and off-line, between service providers and potential customers, including purchasing groups, particularly buyer-driven service-related interactions. The marketplace advantageously allows categorization, key word searching, group purchasing, service packaging, data mining, auctions and other commercial features and functionality. The computer-implemented method / system also supports holographic imagery, e.g., in the form of virtual assistants, that facilitates marketplace-related activities. Based on the computer-implemented method / system, service providers are able to efficiently and cost effectively extend the reach of their marketing and promotional activities to a wide range of additional customers, and customers are able to initiate access service providers ideally suited to meet their needs, i.e., buyer-driven commerce, at desirable prices and according to required timeframes.

When a group purchasing application according to a group of a predetermined number of persons is received, a group purchasing key that identifies the group is issued. When a product purchasing procedure request having the group purchasing key is received from a user, a payment processing is carried out at a normal price without a discount, and a product shipping processing is carried out. After the purchasing procedure processing for all users in the group is completed, a discount amount according to the group purchasing is calculated, and a discount amount payback processing is carried out.

Improved systems and methods for soliciting, acquiring and managing information associated with both buyers and sellers in a purchasing transaction. The system includes the computer hardware infrastructure necessary to allow specific input and management access to databases maintained by or through sellers of products and services, by the individual participants / purchasers of the products and services. The improved systems and methods permit paperless enrollment and information management into individual purchasing transactions and group purchasing transactions. The improved methods allow noncomputer literate individuals to readily understand, access and accurately manage information about themselves in association with an individual purchase transaction or an association with group purchasing transactions. The present invention finds particular application in such fields as employee benefit enrollment plans, group insurance plans and other types of goods and services purchasing transactions where significant amounts of information regarding the buyer might be required.

Allowing users to organize financial resources, it is one object of the present invention to provide a ticket vending and purchasing system for preventing illegal activities, such as ticket scalping, and for ensuring the price determiner is able to exercise their right to setting the price for events. A group purchasing method and system using the Internet is provided. Members of a group register for an event and provide a method of individual payment. A following permission to allow purchase by a system defined agent allows a single agent to purchase the group package for all registered members. The system uses each person's payment information and not only a single user's.

The invention provides a system for recommending group purchasing information, relates to the field of internet, and solves the problem that an existing group purchasing scheme cannot precisely recommend the group purchasing information to a target client base. The system comprises a group purchasing information recommending server, a group purchasing guide server and a community server, wherein the group purchasing guide server is used for collecting the group purchasing information from all group purchasing websites and displaying a group purchasing guide platform to users after organizing, the community server is used for converging users having same interesting and providing a communication platform, and the group purchasing information recommending server comprises a first acquiring module, a second acquiring module, a matching module and a recommending module. With the system for recommending the group purchasing information, directed marketing is realized.

A commerce exchange system manages contracts between manufacturers, distributors, and purchasers, and is accessible by all of the contracting parties over the Internet. Group purchasing organizations can access the system to place orders for distribution to various end users. The system stores data representing information regarding all of the parties in the contracting process. The system also stores data describing all of the products and services available from the seller, including dates of availability, sizes, prices, and other such information. The system also stores and updates all of the contract terms, product shipments, payments made, rebates due and chargeback payments.

The Invention encompasses a system comprising a novel Volume Purchase Rebate Business Method, Volume Purchase Rebate Appliance sub-system, Volume Purchase Rebate Online-Interactive Showroom sub-system, Volume Purchase Rebate Online-Interactive Showcase sub-system, Volume Purchase Rebate Online-Interactive SalesPerson sub-system and Online-Interactive Ordering or Online-Interactive Re-Ordering sub-systems, and methods and processes for purchasing or volume purchasing or excess inventory purchasing or excess capacity purchasing for a plurality of purchasers who are in fact group purchasing yet purchasing individually from merchants for goods, products and services and obtaining and investing rebates while purchasing over the counter or real-time interactive online direct ordering and automatic re-ordering of said goods and services.

The invention discloses a method for establishing an on-line lottery purchasing designating platform. The method is characterized in that a lottery group purchasing service foreground is established, and the foreground is respectively connected with a lottery group purchasing background, an accounting system, a payment system and a terminal user to form a network on-line lottery purchasing platform. The network technology and the J2EE frame and the ORACLE database which are the most mature and stable at present are adopted, so as to provide a safe, reliable and convenient purchasing platform for the sports lottery users, and to build a convenient, efficient and reliable informatized bridge between the sports lottery center and the terminal users. The users can realize real-time lottery purchasing through the platform, the instantaneity and the convenience for purchasing the lottery are increased, and the system is safe and reliable.

The business method of managing and providing healthcare includes the formation of a centralized management organization for managing and organizing at least one group purchasing cooperative, formed from a plurality of members. Preferably, the plurality of members are selected from employers. Data and information related to the plurality of members is preferably stored and organized via a computerized system, and the group purchasing cooperative negotiates contracts directly with healthcare-related manufacturers and distributors for healthcare-related goods and services, in order to negotiate group benefits, such as discounts, rebates and the like. The goods and services may then be provided directly the members of the group purchasing cooperative.

The invention provides a safe online group purchasing method. The safe online group purchasing method includes that salesmen selects negotiates with offline merchants; goods group purchasing information is published on the internet; members attends group purchasing to pre-purchase the goods and pays online; a group purchasing website sends payment order to customers; and the customers can consume in the merchants with the payment order. Preferably, besides prices of the goods, service quality of the merchants is considered during negotiation between the salesmen and the merchants.

Disclosed in the invention is a cloud-service-based marketing system. The marketing system comprises a cloud server, a commerce and trade service platform carrying out data interaction with the cloud server, and a marketing platform connected to the commerce and trade service platform. The marketing platform consists of a marketing official account sub system, a micro e-commerce supplier management subsystem, a payment subsystem, a membership management subsystem, and a group purchasing application subsystem. According to the cloud-service-based marketing system disclosed by the invention, on the basis of the big data analysis of the cloud server, consuming and transaction data of the user, the merchant and the third party are collected based on the big data analysis; and the related data are pushed to the user, the merchant and the third party accurately. Therefore, the accuracy of marketing platform information is improved, the information resource wasting is avoided; and healthy, secure, and efficient development of the e-commerce platform is promoted.

A method for conducting an online group auction of homogeneous shares in an undivided lot uses a server computer accessible via a data network. An associated database contains details of an undivided lot, such as a real estate property, available for auction, and information representing a share offering. The offering comprises a number of homogeneous shares in the undivided lot, each share having an associate individual share price. Participating bidders submit bids via the data network, each bid including information identifying a maximum number of shares, and a maximum price per share. The server determines a degree of success of the bid based on an extent to which the maximum price per share exceeds a current individual share price of one or more of the homogeneous shares. The server then updates the information representing the share offering in accordance with the determined degree of success of the bid.

The invention relates to a method for implementing the tracing of safety information of meat products, which comprises the following steps: a slaughterhouse writes a variety of information into an information processing device for updating data; wholesalers and retailers implement transactions of the meat products by using IC cards and record relevant information in the IC cards; and when a consumer buy the meat products from the retailer, the retailer insert the IC card thereof into a special data terminal and prints out the transaction detail information and the relevant information of the retail transaction. The method implements the recording, the processing and the tracing of the data during the transaction process of the centralized and mobile wholesale transactions, the fixed-pitch retail transactions of markets, supermarkets, shopping malls and the like, the mobile pitch retail transactions, the requisition transactions of hotels, schools, processing plants and other group purchasing units and the like.

An e-commerce system for managing group buy operations has a group server (14) to hold data relating to all purchases of the same product or range of products over a time period and outputs data relating to a projected price curve and current membership of the group, based on a pricing engine (12) for display at an e-commerce portal.

The application of the invention provides a method for authenticity detection on sale data of a group purchasing website. The method comprises the following steps that: a real-time sale quantity displayed in current group purchasing list information is obtained; a real-time degree of the current group purchasing list is obtained; a differential value of weighted values of the real-time sale quantity and the real-time degree is obtained, wherein the real-time sale quantity and the real-time degree are displayed in the current group purchasing list information in a same time interval; if the differential value is greater than a threshold value, it is determined that sale data of the current group purchasing list is not true; otherwise, it is determined that sale data of the current group purchasing list is true. In addition, the application also provides an apparatus for authenticity detection on sale data of a group purchasing website, wherein the apparatus is used for realizing the method. According to the method and the apparatus thereof provided in the application of the invention, a problem on determination of authenticity of sale data of a group purchasing website can be solved.

The invention discloses a logistics transport capacity group purchasing method and system, and the method comprises the steps that a logistics electronic commerce platform receives a request that a cargo owner transports a large batch of cargos, the weight of which is higher than the maximum bearing weight of a unit vehicle; the logistics electronic commerce platform generates logistics transportgroup capacity purchasing information according to the request of the cargo owner in transporting the large batch of cargos; the platform issues the logistics transport capacity group purchasing information of the large batch of cargos to a platform website and pushes the logistics transport capacity group purchasing information to a car owner. According to the invention, the logistics electroniccommerce platform receives the request that the cargo owner transports the large batch of cargos, generates logistics transport group capacity purchasing information according to the request of the cargo owner in transporting the large batch of cargos, issues the logistics transport capacity group purchasing information of the large batch of cargos to the platform website and pushes the logisticstransport capacity group purchasing information to the car owner. The method and system provided by the invention solve a problem that the owner of a large batch of cargo resources cannot find the vehicle easily and the car owner collects the cargos, improve the logistics transportation efficiency, reduces the time cost of the car owner, and promotes the effective integration and optimized configuration of the logistics resources.

A method for conducting an online group auction of homogeneous shares in an undivided lot uses a server computer accessible via a data network. An associated database contains details of an undivided lot, such as a real estate property, available for auction, and information representing a share offering. The offering comprises a number of homogeneous shares in the undivided lot, each share having an associate individual share price. Participating bidders submit bids via the data network, each bid including information identifying a maximum number of shares, and a maximum price per share. The server determines a degree of success of the bid based on an extent to which the maximum price per share exceeds a current individual share price of one or more of the homogeneous shares. The server then updates the information representing the share offering in accordance with the determined degree of success of the bid.

In a network where a person who wants to sell an estate is connected to an estate purchase broker so that data communication can be performed, there is provided a database of information on estates to be sold which are provided by a person who wants to sell an estate, an estate purchase broker, and the like. An estate group purchasing matching system includes search condition setting means for analyzing a purchase condition described by a person who wants to purchase an estate and his / her attribute information and setting a condition for searching a person who roughly corresponds to it. In the search condition set by this search condition setting means, a priority degree of condition is quantified for each of the items and a search condition having a certain width is set for each item value. Thus, it is possible to extract a plurality of registered candidates who want to purchase an estate from the database containing estate purchase desirer information connected to the network by estate purchase desirer brief extraction means.

The present invention is an automated and online process for individual members of a group to perform online purchases under one group account. This method creates an account for the group with a particular merchant. The method uses purchaser information to generate a unique security key for the particular group purchase. The purchaser information includes a set of parameters that will govern a valid order by a group member. When a member of the group desires to make a purchase under the group account, that purchaser would use the key to gain access to the purchasing program. After the user has completed his / her menu selections, the purchaser would submit the order. The order is validated based on purchase criteria provided at the initiation of the account. After order validation, the order would be entered into a database containing the purchaser's account information. This process would also update the purchaser account information.

A system and method perform group purchasing. Specifically, sellers offer goods or services for sale on the system and users can agree to purchase and share their purchase with others. The price displayed is reduced as more users agree to purchase. Each user is charged the same final price. Thus, some of the purchasing and selling power is put back in the hands of the content-providing studios and end consumers. The system includes a processor for receiving a purchase order for an item from each of a plurality of users, wherein an initial price for the item is reduced to a reduced price in relation to the number of users purchasing the item; and a fulfillment system for receiving payment from the plurality of users at the reduced price per user and for delivering the item to the plurality of users.

The invention discloses a commodity transaction method and device. The method comprises the following steps of: setting at least one price gradient value according to an inventory of a commodity, wherein the price gradient value is a commodity price corresponding to the inventory; monitoring whether a first user purchases the commodity or not; and if the first user purchases the commodity, generating commodity transaction information. According to the method and device, a manner of setting price gradient values according to inventories of commodities is adopted, and the commodities are purchased by users according to the price gradient values, so that the aim of improving the group purchasing success efficiency is achieved and the problem that the group purchasing efficiency is low in correlation technique is solved.

In a network where a person who wants to sell an estate is connected to an estate purchase broker so that data communication can be performed, there is provided a database of information on estates to be sold which are provided by a person who wants to sell an estate, an estate purchase broker, and the like. An estate group purchasing matching system includes search condition setting means for analyzing a purchase condition described by a person who wants to purchase an estate and his / her attribute information and setting a condition for searching a person who roughly corresponds to it. In the search condition set by this search condition setting means, a priority degree of condition is quantified for each of the items and a search condition having a certain width is set for each item value. Thus, it is possible to extract a plurality of registered candidates who want to purchase an estate from the database containing estate purchase desirer information connected to the network by estate purchase desirer brief extraction means.

A method of providing progressive on-line group purchasing of goods and services, comprising: selecting articles to be purchased; receiving a target group size and price; creating a group of said 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 said group members.

The invention relates to a data processing method and a data processing device for group purchasing. The data processing method comprises the following steps of acquiring purchased product information; acquiring associated characteristic information according to the product information; acquiring client information which is uploaded in batch; grouping the client information according to the characteristic information; determining a product quota which corresponds with a single person in each group; acquiring the number of clients in each group, and determining the product total quota of each group according to the number of clients in each group and a corresponding product quota; and determining the group total quota which corresponds with the uploaded client information in batch according to the product total quota of each group. The data processing method and the data processing device for group purchasing have advantages of quickly reducing the group total quota, realizing low processing data volume, reducing calculation time, realizing low requirement for batch client information recording by a salesman, realizing simple operation and reducing labor consumption.

The invention discloses a multi-functional transaction management system based on the Internet and APP, including a cash register, a keyboard, a printer, a POS machine, a QR code scanning device, a main control server, a wireless communication module, a container management server, a water and electricity management server, UnionPay server, logistics management server, group purchase platform server, online shopping server, barcode scanner, touch screen and parcel locker; keyboard, printer, POS machine, and QR code scanning device are all connected to the cash register; wireless communication module, barcode scanner , the touch display screen and the cash register are all connected to the main control server, the container management server, water and electricity management server, UnionPay server, logistics management server, group purchasing platform server and online shopping server are all connected to the wireless communication module; the parcel storage cabinet is composed of multiple storage grids , there is a transmission mechanism inside the storage grid. The invention realizes the purpose of online and offline and package self-pickup, and facilitates people's lives.

The application of the invention provides a method for authenticity detection on sale data of a group purchasing website. The method comprises the following steps that: a real-time sale quantity displayed in current group purchasing list information is obtained; a real-time degree of the current group purchasing list is obtained; a differential value of weighted values of the real-time sale quantity and the real-time degree is obtained, wherein the real-time sale quantity and the real-time degree are displayed in the current group purchasing list information in a same time interval; if the differential value is greater than a threshold value, it is determined that sale data of the current group purchasing list is not true; otherwise, it is determined that sale data of the current group purchasing list is true. In addition, the application also provides an apparatus for authenticity detection on sale data of a group purchasing website, wherein the apparatus is used for realizing the method. According to the method and the apparatus thereof provided in the application of the invention, a problem on determination of authenticity of sale data of a group purchasing website can be solved.

A group purchase and supply chain operation management and control platform construction method comprehensively expounds the overall design of the platform from the two aspects of group organization management and informatization construction, covers three levels of group headquarters, platform companies and member units by constructing a '1 + 1 + N' overall architecture, and combines a public network with an internal private network organically to form a group purchase and supply chain operation management and control platform. Real-time penetration and longitudinal penetration of key business data such as purchasing, performance, warehousing and logistics are realized, efficient operation and scientific decision making are enabled, and a foundation is laid for full-chain visual management; the group headquarters serve as a strategy making layer, a unified supply chain control tower is built, first-level management and control are achieved, and macroscopic monitoring, strategy decision making and performance management are focused. According to the method, the defects of the group purchase and supply chain in management and technology can be made up, a new construction idea is provided, a new management concept and an informatization technology are fully applied, and toughness enhancement, decision-making capability improvement and strategic collaborative value are brought to the group purchase and supply chain.

Allowing users to organize financial resources, it is one object of the present invention to provide a ticket vending and purchasing system for preventing illegal activities, such as ticket scalping, and for ensuring the price determiner is able to exercise their right to setting the price for events. A group purchasing method and system using the Internet is provided. Members of a group register for an event and provide a method of individual payment. A following permission to allow purchase by a system defined agent allows a single agent to purchase the group package for all registered members. The system uses each person's payment information and not only a single user's.

Method pertains to a system of entities that make purchases and interact either synchronously or asynchronously into a group that exercises collective buying power. It provides a process whereby individual entities can enter the group at a specified price and receive a rebate as new entities enter the group. The method is useful because of its transparency, sustainability, and ability to provide economic benefits equitably to all stakeholders and incentives to entities in the group to market the group and recruit individuals to join the group. Move over, the structure of the system improves upon the standard coupon scheme as well as the bid and offer system.