313 results about "Total price" patented technology

A system and method for determining a basket, or total, price of items in a shopping list from various retailers is provided. Items may be added to the shopping list based on, for example, a coupon related to an item, items added to the shopping list by a user, items listed in a recipe, and items suggested for the user. The system may determine the price of the items from the various retailers and whether incentives are available for the items. If available and applicable, the incentives are applied to the total price for each retailer and a price comparison of total prices is generated. The price comparison results may be transmitted via various communication channels and may be displayed on a map.

A near field communication (NFC) based checkout system comprises an NFC enabled mobile telephone that reads product data from an NFC tag associated with a product. The mobile telephone updates a shopping list when the consumer scans an item. The consumer uploads the shopping list at a payment terminal at the checkout via an NFC link. The payment terminal connects with a price look up (PLU) database and downloads the price data for the items in the shopping list to provide a total price. The payment terminal requests authorisation of the total price from the consumer's financial authorisation.

A merchant server of a first merchant receives an indication of items that a customer is to purchase via a web site. The indication may be, for example, a signal indicating that the customer is ready to “check out” his shopping cart of items on the web site. In response, the merchant server provides an offer for a subsidy from a second merchant. The offer is provided before the items are purchased, and thus the offer is not provided unless and until the customer has manifested an intent to make a purchase from the first merchant. A response is received from the customer. If the response indicates acceptance of the offer, then the subsidy is applied to the items purchased. For example, the total price paid for the items may be reduced, or the items may even be provided to the customer without charge. In exchange, the customer agrees to participate in a transaction with the second merchant. For example, the customer may be required to switch service providers (e.g. long distance telephone service) or initiate a new service agreement (e.g. sign up for a credit card account).

In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a controller receives information relating to customer activity with a first vendor (e.g., via a Web page that a customer accesses). The controller further receives an indication of items the customer desires to purchase, the items having an associated total price. The controller determines, based on any of various criteria, whether to provide an offer for a subsidy based on the information relating to customer activity. The offer for a subsidy is from a second vendor (a subsidizing vendor), and may define, for example, a reduction in the price charged for the item and an obligation for the customer to fulfill in exchange for the subsidy. If the customer accepts the offer, he is charged a second price for the items. The second price is less than the total price, and may even be zero.

An auction system for providing an auction service via a communication network comprises an auction server machine and buying user terminals which are connected to the communication network; wherein the buying user terminals specify a single item or any combination of items for bidding when multiple items are sold as grouped items at the auction held by the auction server machine; and the auction server machine decides on successful bidders for bids made on a variety of combinations of the grouped items from the buying user terminals, such that the items composing the grouped items do not overlap to multiple bidders and the total price becomes maximal.

A system and method for converting a rebate sponsor's offer into an instant credit or price reduction against a follow-on purchase. Rebate requests are obtained at a site on the Internet. The rebate request is tested to confirm that the at least one predetermined criterion has been satisfied. The person making the rebate request is enabled to make the follow-on purchase, with the rebate being converted into the instant credit or price reduction against the total price of the follow-on purchase. The follow-on purchase transaction is completed by charging that person for the purchase. The credit or price reduction can be conditioned on at least one predetermined criterion such as amount being spent on the follow-on purchase, the vendor from which the follow-on purchase is being made, and other criteria. The credit or price reduction can be redeemed in parts across a series of follow-on purchase transactions. In another aspect of the invention, consumers are advised of rebate offers. In this aspect, a server of a credit issuer receives purchase transaction details concerning an item purchase from a vendor, the item purchase is correlated with any rebate offer, and, in the event of a match, the consumer is advised by electronic mail that a rebate is available and can be converted into instant credit or price reduction on a follow-on purchase.

Methods and systems are provided for facilitating shared mobile payments. According to an embodiment, a user can initiate a purchase using a mobile device. The mobile device can display a total price for the purchase. The first user can cooperate with one or more second users to share the cost of the purchase. The cooperation can be facilitated via the first and second users' mobile devices.

A method and apparatus for filtering and / or sorting responses to electronic requests for quotes for a product or products offered for sale includes comparing first data of each of a plurality electronic quotes to first data of an electronic request for quote. Each of the plurality of electronic quotes is classified as either a matching quote or a non-matching quote. After the quotes are classified, each classified quote is ranked, for example, by the total price of the product or products offered for sale. Classification into distinct categories is used to apply techniques to make quotes comparable. Inexact matches can be adjusted to allow comparison between exact matching quotes and the adjusted inexact matching quotes.

A computer implemented method of allocating costs of a rentable unit across two or more users includes the steps of: assigning two or more users to an event; assigning a date range to the event; assigning a rentable unit to the event, wherein the rentable unit includes two or more heterogeneous sleeping areas and a total price for the assigned date range; assigning a sleeping area to each of the users; and allocating a sub-total to each of the users based on relative value of the assigned heterogeneous sleeping area, wherein the sum of the allocated sub-totals equals the total price of the rentable unit for the assigned date range.

The present invention relates generally to a discount estimating and purchase system and method and, more particularly, to a discount quoting and purchasing system and method that allows quotes / purchases to be evaluated for discounts using various organizational units to maximize efficient order volumes and minimize total price.

A method for creating an online mall by which a service provider obtains product information for one or more products from merchant web sites, wherein the product information includes total price data for the one or more products; and creates a shopping cart web site for at least one merchant as a function of the product information obtained from that merchant's web site. A new price is set for the one or more products on the created shopping cart web site, wherein the new price is responsive to the total price data for the one or more products and the on-line mall's own pricing analysis, and wherein the shopping cart web site is adapted to take orders for one or more products from shoppers and process such orders, including issuing an order to the merchant whose web site provides the product information for the one or more products.

The invention discloses a self-service intelligent electronic weighing settlement method and system. The method comprises the specific implementation steps that (1), whether articles to be traded exist is detected in real time, and when it is detected that the articles to be traded exist, weight data and image data of the articles to be traded are collected and output; (2), the image data are received, image identification is carried out, unit prices corresponding to the identified articles are obtained, and the total price of the articles to be traded currently is calculated according to the weight data; (3), settlement command signals are collected in real time, whether settlement needs to be carried out is judged, if yes, statistics is carried out on all data to be settled to obtain final settlement data, and the final settlement data are sent to a settlement terminal, if not, the total price of the articles to be traded currently serves as the data to be settled and is stored, and then the step (1) is executed. The system comprises a data collecting module, an intelligent pricing module and a self-service settlement module. The method has the advantages that the realizing method is simple, the needed cost is low, the intelligent degree is high, and weighing and automatic settling can be integrated.

The present invention discloses a method and a system for shopping settlement applicable to an entity retail store. The method comprises the steps that: a detection device detects that a consumer enters the shopping area of an entity retail store; a processing platform turns on a plurality of cameras connected with the processing platform to perform monitoring of the consumer, wherein the camerasare arranged at a plurality of predetermined positions in the shopping area of the entity retail store; the processing platform identifies shopping actions and goods of the consumer in the shopping area according to images collected by the cameras and performs statistics of goods purchased by the consumer; the detection device detects that the consumer walks away from the shopping area of the entity retail store; and the processing platform calculates corresponding total shopping prices according to the quantity of the goods after statistics and pre-stored prices of the goods and deducts the total shopping prices from an associated payment account corresponding to the consumer. According to the embodiment of the invention, the efficiency of consumer shopping settlement can be improved andshopping experience can be improved.

The invention discloses a shopping trolley, a shopping system and an implement method of the shopping system. The shopping trolley comprises a shopping trolley body. The shopping trolley body is provided with a display device, a bar code scanning device, a control device, a first storage box and a storage device. The unit price of each commodity selected and placed in the first storage box of the shopping trolley body by a user and the total price of all commodities can be stored in the storage device, when the user checks out, a cashier can print a complete receipt by obtaining data in the storage device, jamming caused when the user checks out is avoided, cost for hiring cashiers is lowered, cash registering efficiency is increased, the quality of service is improved, and therefore customers can feel comfortable in shopping.

The invention discloses an intelligent supermarket cashier system and method based on mobile payment and the IOT (Internet of Things), and relates to the field of smart city application. The system comprises a plurality of commodity bar code scanners, a plurality of intelligent shopping carts, a background management center, a plurality of self-service cashier devices, an alarm device, and a wireless network covering a whole supermarket. The intelligent shopping carts are provided with price recognition modules and communication modules, so as to recognize the price and number of commodities in the shopping carts and transmit the price and number of commodities and the IDs of the shopping carts to the background management center. The background management center calculates the total prices corresponding to the IDs. The self-service cashier devices automatically recognize the IDs of the shopping carts, and display the details and total prices of corresponding commodities. A consumer can finish payment through a mobile terminal. The system can achieve the self-service shopping and payment, saves the time in searching the commodities, saves the time of a cashier in scanning the price of each commodity, reduces the waiting time of the consumer, is convenient and quick, and can remarkably improve the user experience.

The invention provides a scanning-based shopping method and shopping system. The method comprises: a mobile terminal generates a corresponding commodity query request on the basis of a commodity ID code obtained through scanning and sends the commodity query request to a commodity query server; the commodity query server receives the commodity query request, determines commodity information matching the commodity query request through a commodity database, and returns the found commodity information to the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal receives the commodity information and determines the total commodity prices according to the commodity information; the mobile terminal generates a commodity order on the basis of obtained shopping information, a payment method and the determined total commodity price and sends the commodity order to a payment platform corresponding to the payment method; payment operation is completed through the payment platform and payment success information is generated and sent to the mobile terminal; and the mobile terminal sends the commodity order to a logistics server according to the received payment success information.

The invention discloses a canteen payment system and a method based on an image recognition technology. The canteen payment system comprises a camera, a pressure sensor, a host, a card swiping machine and a displayer, wherein the camera, the pressure sensor, the credit card machine and the displayer are all connected with the host. The canteen payment method comprises the following steps: taking out a dish sample from a sample database after the whole image data is obtained and traversing the whole image data, when the similarity of a certain dish image data in the whole image data and the dish sample data is larger than 80%, determining that the current traversal dish is the same with the dish sample, the host calling successfully matched dish information which is corresponding to the dish sample from the sample database by the host and outputting the dish information and the total number of dishes to the displayer and storing the dish information and total value of the dish into a consumption database; and calculating and outputting the total price of the dishes after all the dishes in the whole image are identified, and reminding a consumer by the displayer to pay the amount of consumption through the credit card machine.

A merchant server of a first merchant receives an indication of items that a customer is to purchase via a web site. The indication may be, for example, a signal indicating that the customer is ready to “check out” his shopping cart of items on the web site. In response, the merchant server provides an offer for a subsidy from a second merchant. The offer is provided before the items are purchased, and thus the offer is not provided unless and until the customer has manifested an intent to make a purchase from the first merchant. A response is received from the customer. If the response indicates acceptance of the offer, then the subsidy is applied to the items purchased. For example, the total price paid for the items may be reduced, or the items may even be provided to the customer without charge. In exchange, the customer agrees to participate in a transaction with the second merchant. For example, the customer may be required to switch service providers (e.g. long distance telephone service) or initiate a new service agreement (e.g. sign up for a credit card account).

The invention provides a data processing method and device, and belongs to the field of data processing. The data processing method comprises obtaining image information acquired by each camera when a preset condition is satisfied; obtaining article information carried by the image information; and the total price of articles corresponding to the article information. According to the invention, the image information acquired by each camera is obtained, after the image information is processed, the article information carried by the image information is obtained, and therefore the article kinds and the article number carried by the article information are obtained, the total price of the articles bought by the user is obtained based on the preset unit price of each kind of articles, and therefore the article kinds can be distinguished accurately through an image processing manner, and an accurate price can be obtained, and furthermore the user experience is improved.

A transcoding service is described that is capable of utilizing the excess capacity of the computing resources of a service provider. The customer of the transcoding service can submit a bid price for completing the transcodes. As long as the specified price exceeds the fluctuating price of the unused resource instances, the transcoding service will execute the job on the unused instance(s). If the price of the unused resource instances exceeds the customer's bid, the transcoding process stops. The transcoding service may pause the transcoding when the dynamically fluctuating price of the unused resource exceeds the customer's bid and then resume when the price falls back down. Users can specify constraints for transcoding, such as timeframes during which the transcode must be completed, a total price for completing transcoding or priorities of the media files. The system can automatically optimize the utilization of the resource instances according to the constraints.

A weighing scale, digital control panel and a laser scanner are mounted on each “Automated Market Cart”, and the operation of purchasing items is based in coordinating a store's main Computer data with the weight of any item by means of the use of a weighing scale, digital control panel and a barcode on each item, scanned by the customer. The “Automated Market Cart” gives the customers the ability to purchase anything with minimal human assistance.The unique weight and the barcode for each item will be transmitted to the stores main computer. The main store's computer function is that once an item is weighted and the barcode is received from the digital control panel microprocessor, it will check against the database of that unique item and calculate the total price and it will also control all auditing, purchasing, receiving, inventory controls, transferring of products to and from other locations.

The invention relates to a method for calculating in a network that comprises links, a price for using a specific link in the network. The method comprises the following steps: a) a comparison step for determining a price difference between the price for using the specific link and the price for using instead of the specific link an alternative path in the network, which does not comprise the specific link, b) a change-calculation step for determining a link-price change in the price for using the specific link, and a link-price change in the price for using the links in the alternative path, in response to the determined price difference, c) a combination step for combining for the specific link the determined link-price changes on the price for using the specific link from all links in the network, to determine a total price-change for the specific link, d) a merging step for merging the determined total price-change with a market-induced price change in the price for using the specific link, to calculate the price for using the specific link, wherein the market-induced price change is being driven by at least one random variable.

The server system, communicatively connected to multiple client systems via a network, facilitates at least one web page for download to the client systems, where the web page offers multiple products for purchase. Responsive to the server system detecting a particular product selection from a particular client system, the server system downloads to the particular client system a first package offer of the client selected product and at least one second product from among at least one vendor selected product at a first price at a first discounted rate for purchase of both the client selected particular product and the at least one second product. In addition, the server system includes a selectable option for replacing the first package offer in the download of the first package offer. Responsive to detecting, at the server system a user selection of the selectable option from the particular client system, the server system creates at least one alternative product package offer for purchase of both the client selected product and at least one third product from among a different set of vendor selected products. The server system downloads the alternative product package offer to the client system for selection for purchase by the user, wherein the user is enabled to select a final product package including the client selected product and at least one third product form the different set of vendor selected products at a total price having a final discounted rate.

In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a controller receives an indication of acceptance by a customer of an offer for a subsidy from a second vendor (e.g., a subsidizing vendor). The offer may define, for example, a reduction in the price charged for an item purchased from a first vendor and an obligation for the customer to fulfill in exchange for the subsidy. The customer is charged a second price for the items, which is less than the total price, and may even be zero.

The invention discloses a visual image recognition-based self-help cash register unmanned convenience store operation system, which comprises a showroom. Weighbridges are arranged at an entrance and an exit; the showroom is internally provided with the self-help cash register; the self-help cash register comprises a tunnel-type channel, a track; a track power device and an image acquisition device; the image acquisition device is arranged in the tunnel-type channel; the surface of the track is a goods placement area; and a customer places the goods in the goods placement area, the track movesand drives the goods to enter the tunnel-type channel, the image data of the goods are read through the image acquisition device, the data are given to a PC processing module to search for consistentgoods information from a pre-stored goods image database, the total price and the total weight SigmaW1...n are accumulated, and n is no smaller than 1. The weighbridges at the entrance and the exit acquire a weight difference of the customer before and after entering, the weight difference is compared with the total weight SigmaW1...n, opening and closing of a screen door at the exit are controlled according to a comparison result, and the goods can be prevented from being stolen and lost.

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of unmanned vending equipment, and discloses a pick-up detection method and device and an unmanned vending cabinet. The unmanned vendingcabinet is provided with a pick-up door, the unmanned vending cabinet is provided with a touch screen, the touch screen is provided with a pressure sensor, the touch screen is provided with a plurality of touch areas, and commodities are placed on the touch area. The pick-up detection method includes the steps that basic information of a user is acquired by scanning a two-dimensional code of the unmanned vending cabinet by the user; the pick-up door is opened according to the basic information of the user; pressure changes of the touch area of the touch screen are detected to generate a shopping instruction according to the pressure changes; commodity types and quantity of commodities are determined according to the shopping instruction; a total price of the commodities is determined according to the commodity type and the quantity of the commodities, and payment information is automatically generated. In the above manner, the cabinet can achieve the conditions that the commodities canbe taken away directly, and can automatically detect whether the commodities are taken away, thereby improving the shopping experience of the user.

The invention relates to an automatic recovery method of a plastic drink bottle. A throwing port for throwing the drink bottle is arranged and is larger than the drink bottle with largest capacity; and the drink bottle is provided with bar codes used for showing the type and size of the drink bottle. The automatic recovery method comprises the following steps: (1) the drink bottle is thrown into the throwing port, the bar code on the drink bottle is scanned to obtain the information of the type and the size of the drink bottle; (2) according to the preset corresponding relation of the type, the size and the recovery price of the drink bottle, a control device stores the price of the drink bottle thrown currently; (3) after the throwing is completed, the control device respectively counts the drink bottles with different recovery prices, calculating classification price and total price and printing and outputting receipt of cash coupon; and (4) extruding the plastic bottle into flat shape, starting the grinder for grinding when the flat plastic bottle reaches to preset thickness, and grinding the plastic bottle into small plastic pieces. The automatic recovery method realizes automatic recovery, greatly improves recovery efficiency and has good environmental protection.

The invention discloses a multifunctional intelligent refrigerator. The multifunctional intelligent refrigerator comprises an outdoor energy storage part, a temperature adjusting part and a control part, wherein the outdoor energy storage part is connected to the temperature adjusting part through an insulating tube; the working states of the outdoor energy storage part and the temperature adjusting part can be controlled through the control part; the condition that a refrigerator is independently purchased and an air conditioner is independently mounted, too in a family is avoided by mounting a refrigerating system on the refrigerator outdoors and applying the refrigerator to adjustment of indoor temperature. According to the refrigerator disclosed by the invention, the refrigerator refrigerates to freeze foods, and meanwhile, the refrigerator can refrigerate or heat to adjust the indoor temperature. Compared with conventional air conditioner and refrigerator, the total price cost is lower, resources are utilized to the maximum extent, equipment is conveniently mounted, and meanwhile, foods are conveniently taken.

A system and method is provided for enabling respondents at their computer systems to connect with a server computer over a network, such as the Internet, and receive an executable configuration program enabling each respondent to select for each of the features of a product one of multiple subfeature attributes or levels for that feature. Each of the subfeatures for each feature has a price value and the combination of selected subfeatures for the features of the product provides a total price value of the product. The total price value is displayed and updated as subfeatures for the features are selected by the respondent or the selection of subfeatures are changed by the respondent. When the total price value of the product is acceptable to the respondent, and subfeatures have been selected for each feature of the product, the program returns configuration information to the computer server having data representing the subfeatures selected for the product, the total price of the product, the time for the respondent to complete the configuration of the product, and each of the features and subfeatures selected and changed by the respondent in arriving at the final configured product. The configuration program may be part of a survey being conducted over the network by the server computer in which questions of the survey following receipt of the configuration information by the computer server may be in accordance with such configuration information.