113 results about "Internet sales" patented technology

The current invention includes an improved system for an e-commerce vendor to seamlessly incorporate products and services from a third party into its own e-commerce site. This system enables the e-commerce vendor to display the third party products and to accept orders and arrange fulfillment of these products through its own site in a manner that is seamless to the end user. When the e-commerce retailer requests product information from the supplier, the supplier provides the retailer with product information and URLs at which additional information can be located. The retailer uses this information to retrieve product images, descriptions and information and to display this information to its customer on its own site. Each of these items is tagged with a unique element identifier that contains a number of details about the product. This information tagged to the product image or description enables the product to be easily identified by both the retailer and the supplier. When the customer purchases the products from the retailer, the necessary information is tagged to the product information and, thus, is available for placement of the order with the supplier. This enables the product order to be routed to and fulfilled by the third party supplier in a manner that is transparent to the customer.

Systems and methods for facilitating the sale of classified ad items are provided. According to one embodiment, a linkage is created between a print advertisement and an online counterpart. Consumers are encouraged to view and / or purchase online an item for sale in the print classified ad. For example, a graphic, text, icon or other indicia may indicate the item is also accessible in an online environment. According to another embodiment, ad data for an e-commerce enabled online classified advertisement is originated by a periodical publisher via a call center and passed to the e-commerce system. In another embodiment, consumers placing an order for an advertisement are provided with multiple e-commerce selling format options that define the manner in which an e-commerce application will attempt to sell the subject of the ad. For example, the consumer may select a fixed price, a negotiated price, or an auction selling format.

A system and method for encoding and controlled authentication of security documents, ID cards, tickets and products and the like is described which can provide a secure means to determine them to be authentic. The method involves encoding the surface of the said security documents or ID cards or tickets and the like with of a pair of identity components comprising a pair of unique numbers, or a combination of a uniquely encoded image and a unique number, or a combination of a unique barcode and a unique number, or a combination of encoded images. The pair of identity components together comprise a challenge response pair and are related such that one component of the pair, the response, is a mathematical derivative of the other component, the challenge. A processing module determines the response by processing the challenge using complex mathematical functions such as one-way mathematical functions. If the processed response matches the encoded response, the challenge response pair is determined to be authentic. The use of one-way mathematical functions renders any attempt to compute the challenge response relation between the identity components outside polynomial time. The invention provides the means to modify the challenge response computation with a password or PIN number such that any document or ticket or product can be locked or unlocked accordingly. When locked, the password or PIN number corrupts the challenge response computation such that the challenge response pair is deemed non-authentic. The invention has direct application to Internet sales transactions.

A solution for consumer self-service merchandise order placement, payment, and pick up, integrated with a merchant's Internet e-commerce site and with an effective merchant point-of-sale management system. The solution includes a system and apparatus and of a set of specific business methods. A self-service merchandising machine for un-attended, autonomous, and automatic dispensing of retail products includes an input / output subsystem; a control subsystem having and being based upon a computer; a specially configured storage subsystem; a unique pick-and-place robotic-based product retrieval subsystem with an adaptive material handling system; and a product extraction subsystem. A related method of using the machine includes the steps of enabling self-service retail sale; permitting Internet sale with local merchandise pick-up; managing the business operations of the system; replenishing inventory using Kanban methods; restocking inventory; operating and monitoring a security camera; handling Category I error; and handling Category II error.

A global electronic receipt platform for recording, managing and accessing transaction receipts through retailers' physical or internet based point of sale system. This system allows consumers to be assigned a Consumer Unique Identifier (CUI) and have retailers submit a given purchase transaction information to this global system through a secured internet connection between the retailer's point of sale system and the global electronic receipt system every time the CUI is presented. Programmed plugs-ins called Global Electronic Receipt Transfer Agents (GERTA) are made available to retailers which can be integrated into existing point of sale systems in order to process and submit electronic receipts to the Global Electronic Receipt Database Agent (GERDA). Each consumer is provided with an electronic receipt card which stores their Consumer Unique Identifier (CUI) and is presented at the time of purchase or in order to process a return, an exchange or claim a promotion such as a coupon or a rebate. This same UI is used to get access to different interfaces in order to view, manage and search through their transaction history consisting of the detailed electronic receipts generated from the different retail stores and stored in GERDA. The UI may also be linked to a credit card number and / or a phone number and / or email and / or any other loyalty card and / or any other data string accepted by the system and used to identify the consumer through the electronic receipt system in order to identify the customer at the time of purchase without the need for the electronic receipt card. Advertisers and retailers are provided with tools in order to send promotions and communicate with a selected consumer base which meets defined criteria based on the consumers' profile and purchase history stored in GERDA.

A technique for transferring money between a customer and a beneficiary comprises a financial institution, serving as a money-transfer company, a plurality of selling agents, paying agents and ATM (automatic teller machine) card distributors that communicate via a telephone network and / or the Internet. Selling agents distribute transaction cards to customers for use in initiating a money transfer to a particular beneficiary. A selling agent uses a transaction card to transmit a customer's request to the company, which creates a unique transaction record. The company returns a unique, secret fund pick-up (“folio”) number to the customer. The customer discloses the folio number to the beneficiary, who collects the transferred money. Specifically, the beneficiary may obtain an ATM card from an ATM card distributor and use that card to collect the transferred funds at a conventional ATM.

Methods and apparatus for providing manned, e.g., live customer support to customers, e.g., people using the Internet to purchase goods and / or services are described. A person viewing a Web Site, e.g., a customer, is presented with a button which provides the opportunity to talk to a customer service representative. Upon activating the button, e.g., by clicking on it, the customer's computer or other Internet browser device sends a signal, e.g., a call request message, over the Internet indicating that the customer wants to talk with a service representative. The call request message includes the customer's telephone number and / or IP address. In response to the call request message, calling equipment is used to establish a customer service call between the customer and a customer service representative. The equipment can be owned by the telephone company thereby avoiding the need for E-business companies to make investments in telephone equipment. In addition, a customer service representative can be located either at the E-business site or remotely, e.g., at the customer service representative's private home or other site, with the representative being called by the conference equipment as required to service a customer. Voice over IP conference equipment may be used instead or in conjunction with telephone conference equipment where one or both of the customer and service representative have voice over IP capability.

A method of selling a health related product or service via the Internet provides a service provider system that includes a web server. The service provider system has members that purchase health related products and services through the service provider system. Applicants are enrolled in the service provider system as members. A product or service request message is received for a desired product or service from a member through a customer interface. The product or service request message includes a product or service identifier. The service provider system transmits a request for the desired product or service request to a supplier of the desired product or service. Points are recorded within a computer memory awarded to a member for purchases made by the member through the service provider system.

The invention discloses an intelligent terminal cabinet for fresh vegetable sale, an internet sale system and method. The intelligent terminal cabinet is composed of a main control cabinet and a plurality of auxiliary cabinets. A plurality of storage boxes are arranged below each auxiliary cabinet. Each storage box is provided with a refrigeration unit module and a thermal insulation system. The main control cabinet, all the auxiliary cabinets and all the storage boxes are respectively provided a unique ID address. Duplex communication is built between the main control cabinet and a mobile internet through a wire communication module and / or a wireless communication module. A first-stage communication bus is further built between the main control cabinet and each auxiliary cabinet, and a second-stage communication bus is built between each auxiliary cabinet and each storage box arranged below the corresponding auxiliary cabinet. Stable communication is guaranteed when extension is conducted due to the fact that a distribution-typed structure is adopted for the main control cabinet, the auxiliary cabinets and the storage box, and the normal work of other cabinets and boxes cannot be affected when any independent auxiliary cabinet or any independent storage box fails to work properly.

A solution for consumer self-service merchandise order placement, payment, and pick up, integrated with a merchant's Internet e-commerce site and with an effective merchant point-of-sale management system. The solution includes a system and apparatus and of a set of specific business methods. A self-service merchandising machine for un-attended, autonomous, and automatic dispensing of retail products includes an input / output subsystem; a control subsystem having and being based upon a computer; a specially configured storage subsystem; a unique pick-and-place robotic-based product retrieval subsystem with an adaptive material handling system; and a product extraction subsystem. A related method of using the machine includes the steps of enabling self-service retail sale; permitting Internet sale with local merchandise pick-up; managing the business operations of the system; replenishing inventory using Kanban methods; restocking inventory; operating and monitoring a security camera; handling Category I error; and handling Category II error.

The present invention provides a system of a novel retail anti-counterfeiting method based on the blockchain technology. The system comprises a device for providing a cloud blockchain timestamp and acargo terminal device with a sensor, a timer and a data transmission device, and a cargo terminal blockchain, a cloud blockchain and a check generation stop blockchain are dynamically generated. The system and method are mainly used for anti-counterfeiting of goods sold by the Internet and the arrangement of related terminals.

The invention discloses a charging processing method and system for internet sales. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a network commodity promotion service website and recording a corresponding relation between a commodity sales webpage and promoter information, seller information, commodity information, and profit allocation mode information; distributing a global unique identity ID for the corresponding relation and generating a two-dimensional code that can be read and identified by a machine or other commodity promotion carrier; receiving a purchase request that is sent out by a purchaser from a webpage of the promotion service website or receiving a purchase request that is sent by a purchaser after machine reading and identifying of the global unique identity ID of the corresponding relation, and generating an order; obtaining the promoter information, the seller information, the commodity information, and the profit allocation mode information from the promotion service website; and according to the obtained promoter information, seller information, commodity information, and order information, realizing expense collection and automatically realizing profit allocation charging between the promoter and the seller based on the profit allocation mode information.

A system and method for encoding and controlled authentication of security documents, ID cards, tickets and products and the like is described which can provide a secure means to determine them to be authentic. The method involves encoding the surface of the said security documents or ID cards or tickets and the like with of a pair of identity components comprising a pair of unique numbers, or a combination of a uniquely encoded image and a unique number, or a combination of a unique barcode and a unique number, or a combination of encoded images. The pair of identity components together comprise a challenge response pair and are related such that one component of the pair, the response, is a mathematical derivative of the other component, the challenge. A processing module determines the response by processing the challenge using complex mathematical functions such as one-way mathematical functions. If the processed response matches the encoded response, the challenge response pair is determined to be authentic. The use of one-way mathematical functions renders any attempt to compute the challenge response relation between the identity components outside polynomial time. The invention provides the means to modify the challenge response computation with a password or PIN number such that any document or ticket or product can be locked or unlocked accordingly. When locked, the password or PIN number corrupts the challenge response computation such that the challenge response pair is deemed non-authentic. The invention has direct application to Internet sales transactions.

Methods and systems are provided for attempting to optimize online listings for users of an Internet sales website, such as an online auction website. Recommendations can be provided to the users for improving their listings. The recommendations can be made using rules and statistical models. The listings can be monitored for compliance with the recommendations. The listings can be monitored for effectiveness of such compliance. The rules can be modified in light of such effectiveness. In this manner, listings can tend to be optimized so as to increase the likelihood of a visit from a potential buyer resulting in conversion.

The invention discloses a method for realizing mobile payment in mobile internet sales, which comprises that: firstly, a user installs a payment client with a mobile phone with a financial IC card bound with bank card information; secondly, a mobile payment platform receives a shopping order after the user shops on a mobile internet sales platform and transmits a shopping bill through the payment client, and the user pays the shopping bill on the mobile phone; thirdly, the payment client realizes the payment and then transmits payment information to the mobile payment platform; fourthly, the mobile payment platform checks the payment information and then transmits the payment information to the mobile internet sales platform; and finally, the mobile internet sales platform transmits a payment success message to the mobile payment platform and the user to finish the payment. The method has the advantages of simplifying a payment flow in a mobile internet sale mode, enabling the user to conveniently and fast finish payment operation or find a paying agent, making secure the operation process, realizing timely payment anytime anywhere and avoiding risks in capital.

The invention discloses a system and a method for realizing mobile payment in internet sales. The method comprises the following steps that: a user installs a payment client by using a mobile phone which is provided with a financial smart card bound with bank card information; a mobile phone payment platform receives a shopping list after the user shops on an internet sales platform; the mobile phone platform sends a shopping bill through the payment client; the user pays on the mobile phone; the payment client sends the payment information to the mobile phone payment platform after the realization of payment; the mobile phone payment platform sends the payment information to the internet sales platform after checking; and finally, the internet sales platform sends a successful payment message to the mobile phone sales platform and the user, so the payment is finished. Due to the adoption of the system and the method for realizing the mobile payment in the internet sales, the payment process in an internet sales mode is greatly simplified; a user can conveniently and quickly perform remote payment operation; the operation process is very safe; the user can ask others to pay instead at will, so the user or a paying agent can conveniently and quickly pay by using the mobile phone no matter where the user or the paying agent is.

The invention discloses a system for realizing internet sale of a solid shop. The system comprises a POS (Point-Of-Sale) system, an internet server and a synchronous module, wherein the POS system is used for recording merchandise information into a POS database through a bar code and processing orders issued by the internet server; the internet server is used for carrying out online sale on merchandises in a commercial database through a commercial website and sending orders generated during online sale to the POS system; and the synchronous module is used for synchronizing the merchandise information of the commercial database and the merchandise information in the POS database. In the invention, the original POS system of the solid shop is utilized, and data of the POS database are synchronized to the internet server, so that the internet sale of the solid shop is realized. The POS system and the POS database are both existing equipment, therefore, the aim of the internet sale of the solid shop can be rapidly realized.

Disclosed is a system that effectively gathers searchers of real estate products and services by using a large interconnected tree of geographically descriptive terms in combination with descriptive terms relating to real estate. The system allows searchers to connect to desired products and services in a very few number of clicks as compared to searching for real estate products and services using brand names. Various techniques are used to allow the searcher to obtain information on real estate products and services that relate to specific geographical locations. Searchers are encouraged to first link to sites that provide the highest referral fees. The wide net that is cast by the large domain name tree that includes various geographic descriptors, as well as real estate descriptors, and which is extensively interlinked, provides an effective way of obtaining a large number of searchers and specifically qualified leads for real estate services and products.

A business method includes listing a product for sale on an online auction site, ordering packaging via a link on the online auction site for shipping the product to a buyer with a winning bid, where the packaging is in the form of a collapsed box mailed to the seller at a non-flat rate of postage and then mailed by the seller to the buyer at a flat rate of postage. The box when in both the collapsed state and the filled state is of substantially the same height as one of the side panels and is able to fit inside a standard size mailbag of a mail carrier.

The current invention includes an improved system for an e-commerce vendor to seamlessly incorporate products and services from a third party into its own e-commerce site. This system enables the e-commerce vendor to display the third party products and to accept orders and arrange fulfillment of these products through its own site in a manner that is seamless to the end user. When the e-commerce retailer requests product information from the supplier, the supplier provides the retailer with product information and URLs at which additional information can be located. The retailer uses this information to retrieve product images, descriptions and information and to display this information to its customer on its own site. Each of these items is tagged with a unique element identifier that contains a number of details about the product. This information tagged to the product image or description enables the product to be easily identified by both the retailer and the supplier. When the customer purchases the products from the retailer, the necessary information is tagged to the product information and, thus, is available for placement of the order with the supplier. This enables the product order to be routed to and fulfilled by the third party supplier in a manner that is transparent to the customer.

The invention provides an international cross-border online shopping system. According to the system, software serves as a carrier and comprises an unregistered user interface, a registered user interface and a seller user interface. An unregistered user correspondingly has access to the unregistered user interface, a registered user correspondingly has access to the registered user interface, and a seller user correspondingly has access to the seller user interface. Compared with the prior art, the system has the advantages of solving the problems that in the cross-border e-commence industry, transaction platforms are simplex in system and consumer group, have no global product lateral comparison shopping guiding function, have no consultation and interaction function in the global instant messaging range, have no product graded selling and rebating function, have no big data demand and supply interactive pushing function and have no living broadcast and internet selling function achieved through precise commodity classification, and solving other problems existing in international trade and cross-border e-commence.

The present invention provides a system and method for an affinity rewards program, also called a loyalty rewards program, that is administered by an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The system and method of the invention, as implemented by an ISP, provide many advantages over current affinity programs, which are administered by third party providers as distinct services from the services provided by ISPs. Among the advantages to the ISP subscribers are ease of use and ease of determining best prices for goods and services. Among the advantages to the ISP is an increase in subscribers and an increase in subscriber loyalty and satisfaction. Among the advantages to retailers is an increase in traffic at web sites, an increase in sales over the Internet, and an increase in the ability to personally market to program participants.

The invention relates to a digital product selling and sharing method based on a point-to-point document exchange system, and the method comprises the following steps: labeling a unique application by users; releasing digital products, releasing information to a server terminal by adopting the client terminal by providers of digital products, registering own product information, relevant copyright information and conditions of selling prices, and preserving the information in the database of the server terminal through the system; searching and verifying digital products; and downloading digital products. The invention has the advantages that the providers of digital products can sell products through the Internet at a very low cost with ease, while the users can obtain digital products that the users want at the rapidest speed and obtain reward through sharing digital products of the providers, so as to effectively reduce purchase expense of the users; the method facilitates the sales of digital products in the means of reducing practical expenditure expense by purchasing and changes the present situation that the sales of digital products suffer from piracy and Internet illegal downloading.

A method for selling consumer goods on the Internet. The method involves the establishment of a website wherein goods are advertised for sale. The terms of sale are variable such that a buyer is expected to pay a premium for faster delivery of the selected goods. Additionally, sales are not consummated until a set number of buyers agree to receive their goods at one of the published price points. If not enough buyers agree to purchase at a published price point, then all buyers will be pooled together and a sale will be consummated at the lowest price point for which the predetermined number of buyers is reached. If the predetermined number of buyers cannot be reached by pooling all buyers together, then the sale will be cancelled. Money to consummate the sale will be transmitted directly from the buyer to the manufacturer of the sold goods. The manufacturer pays to the operator of the website a fee that is dependent on the sales of the goods that are made.

Methods and apparatus for advertising, promoting, marketing and / or selling products and services. The inventions include a mobile vehicle and moving showroom for advertising, promotion, marketing, and sales of products and services. The products and services may be promoted for direct sale from the moving showroom, or for sale from other outlets, such as retail stores and internet sales.

Disclosed herein is a system and method for merchandising certified autographs via the Internet. The autograph issuing system is mainly comprised of client and server systems (100 and 200). The client system (100) is comprised of a web browser (101) for displaying web pages, client identification information (102) such as a member ID, a password or the like, and Internet connection means. The server system (200) is connected to the client system (100) via the Internet. The server system (200) is comprised of a plurality of web pages (201) including an autograph order form, a server engine (202) for selecting and transmitting appropriate web pages in response to hyper text transfer protocol information, a variety of information input forms (203) transferable when the client identification information (102) is requested by the client system (100), and a plurality of databases (204 to 207) for combining and retrieving various information.

The invention relates to a system which is based on the object (species) shape data acquisition of the internet (network), generates an image design scheme for an object by utilizing the artificial intelligent analysis of a computer and sells commodities. The system comprises an ID (identity) registration flow (enterprise and natural person), an object data acquisition and record arrangement method, a data coding and analyzing method and a method for generating a visible image for the object. The artificial intelligence is adopted to generate the image design scheme for the object by analyzing and calculating data between the object needing the image design and a commodity according to a generated action rule method, and the commercial mode of the internet sales is performed for the commodity in the image scheme. The vision expression design way and system operation scheme including the visualized presenting scheme and implementation scheme of the commodity can be displayed. By analyzing the experience behavior way of a user in the system, the artificial intelligent algorithm is adjusted and improved, and the image design scheme is optimized.

A method for selling consumer goods on the Internet. The method involves the establishment of a website wherein goods are advertised for sale. The terms of sale are variable such that a buyer is expected to pay a premium for faster delivery of the selected goods. Additionally, sales are not consummated until a set number of buyers agree to receive their goods at one of the published price points. If not enough buyers agree to purchase at a published price point, then all buyers will be pooled together and a sale will be consummated at the lowest price point for which the predetermined number of buyers is reached. If the predetermined number of buyers cannot be reached by pooling all buyers together, then the sale will be cancelled. Money to consummate the sale will be transmitted directly from the buyer to the manufacturer of the sold goods. The manufacturer pays to the operator of the website a fee that is dependent on the sales of the goods that are made.