SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENSION OF GROUP BUYING THROUGHOUT THE INTERNET

Patent №

US 6,934,690

Granted

2005-08-23

Filed 1999

Owner

MERCATA, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09409237

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.

Knowledge representationG06Q 30/06G06Q 30/0605G06Q 30/0641

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.71
Planning0.04
Machine learning0.01
AI hardware0.01
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MERCATA, INC.

assignment · 104600768

Assignors

VAN HORN, TOM, ENGMAN, JON C., HALBERT, RICHARD V., GUSTAFSSON, NIKLAS, WOODFORD, DALE A., PACHE, JEROME P., DEAN, GREG C.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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