Asynchronous Virtual Cart for Multi-Platform E-Commerce
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current e-commerce platforms are limited to a single digital location, restricting online merchants' ability to expand their presence across the internet and requiring cumbersome transaction processes, leading to high abandonment rates and inefficient revenue generation.
Innovation Solution
A multi-platform e-commerce system with an asynchronous virtual cart that enables online merchants to create multiple digital store instances across various platforms, allowing seamless product distribution and transactions without inventory management, using a processor-enabled system that integrates with third-party applications for payment processing and order management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If e-commerce platforms are used to manage products and facilitate transactions, then product distribution and sales are enabled, but the system is restricted to a single digital location and requires cumbersome transaction processes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates multiple digital store instances that can operate across various platforms (website, mobile app, social media, voice interfaces) simultaneously. Each store instance is a simplified e-commerce endpoint that handles transactions independently, eliminating the need for complex multi-platform integration while maintaining universal presence.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the monolithic e-commerce platform into multiple independent digital store instances. Each instance operates autonomously with its own simplified transaction process, allowing merchants to distribute products across numerous locations without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
2Area of stationary object
If multiple digital store instances are created across various platforms, then product distribution reach is expanded, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates simplified copies of the e-commerce store across multiple platforms and digital locations. Each digital store instance is a lightweight copy that maintains core functionality without requiring full platform complexity, enabling widespread distribution while keeping individual instance complexity low.
3Productivity
If traditional e-commerce platforms are used, then transactions can be processed, but high abandonment rates occur due to cumbersome processes
Solution Approach 1:
Each digital store instance operates as a self-contained transaction unit that automatically handles purchase processes without requiring users to navigate complex multi-platform systems. The autonomous nature of each instance simplifies the user experience while maintaining transaction processing capability.
4Adaptability or versatility
If merchants manage products through a single e-commerce platform, then product information is centralized, but the ability to expand presence across the internet is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-configures multiple digital store instances with the necessary product information and transaction capabilities before deployment. This preliminary setup eliminates the need for complex real-time synchronization during operation, as each instance is independently prepared to handle transactions with complete product data.
Data Source
AI summary
A multi-platform e-commerce system with a virtual cart is disclosed. The system includes one or more processors and a memory device storing a set of instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to: create an internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system; in response to the creation of the internal virtual cart, create an external virtual cart associated with one or more single e-commerce platforms; in response to every action taken in the internal virtual cart associated with the multi-platform e-commerce system, enable performance of an immediate corresponding action on the external virtual cart associated with the one or more single e-commerce platforms.