Consumer-to-business (C2B) method for consolidating consumer powers in activating market economy

• US 20050021419A1
• Filed: 03/31/2004
• Published: 01/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hing Fai Freeman Fung
• Original Assignee: Hing Fai Freeman Fung
• Inventors: Fung, Hing Fai Freeman
• Application Number:
  US10/815,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20050021419A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0605 Supply or demand aggregation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation

Abstract

A consumer-to-business method by utilizing a secured network to consolidating marketing powers and consumer powers in grouping purchase orders through the global computer network along with the actual franchised stores, centers, and physical locations, to negotiate with the producers or the suppliers for new invention products, provides channels to Inventors to market their invention and Consumers to combine their orders together for negotiating with the manufactures or the suppliers for the goods or services requested and consolidating the marketing powers of the inventors and the purchasing powers of consumers from global computer network.

Claims

1. A Consumer-to-Business method for consolidating consumer powers in activating market economy, comprising the steps of:

(a) providing a Consumer-to-Business (C2B) network;

(b) accepting registration of one or more invention products in an Information Database of said C2B network storing invention information of said invention products provided by Inventors;

(c) storing information given by registered Consumers regarding to specific needs of product in said Information Database of said C2B network;

(d) determining one or more ordered invention products from said invention products according to said information provided by said registered Consumers;

(e) requesting payments from said registered Consumers for said ordered invention products of said registered Consumers;

(f) determining and contracting one or more Suppliers as contracted Suppliers to purchase said ordered invention products; and

(g) delivering said order products from said contracted Suppliers to places designated by said registered Consumers respectively.

2. The method, as recited in claim 1, wherein said invention products include invention goods or services.

3. The method, as recited in claim 1, wherein said central processing web site is ran and managed in a Central Processing Center (CPC) to analyze and group said stored invention information as invention product data in a plurality of categories.

4. The method, as recited in claim 2, wherein said central processing web site is ran and managed in a Central Processing Center (CPC) to analyze and group said stored invention information as invention product data in a plurality of categories.

5. The method, as recited in claim 4, wherein the step (a) further comprises a step (a-1) of verifying said invention information of said invention products in order to be registered in said C2B network to ensure that said invention products are in the state of Reduction-To-Practice.

6. The method, as recited in claim 5, wherein the step (a) further comprises a step (a-2) of providing a minimum suggested selling price for each of said registered invention products.

7. The method, as recited in claim 1, wherein the step (b) further comprises the steps of:

(b-1) taking part into surveys regarding interests and needs in said invention products for each of said registered Consumers; and

(b-2) storing said information provided by said registered Consumers into a purchasing database, wherein said information is analyzed and grouped in a plurality of categories by said Central Processing Center (CPC).

8. The method, as recited in claim 4, wherein the step (b) further comprises the steps of:

(b-1) taking part into surveys regarding interests and needs in said invention products for each of said registered Consumers; and

(b-2) storing said information provided by said registered Consumers into a purchasing database, wherein said information is analyzed and grouped in a plurality of categories by said Central Processing Center (CPC).

9. The method, as recited in claim 6, wherein the step (b) further comprises the steps of:

(b-1) taking part into surveys regarding interests and needs in said invention products for each of said registered Consumers; and

(b-2) storing said information provided by said registered Consumers into a purchasing database, wherein said information is analyzed and grouped in a plurality of categories by said Central Processing Center (CPC).

10. The method, as recited in claim 1, wherein the step (c) further comprises a step of inviting said registered Consumers to place acceptable purchasing prices for said registered invention products respectively.

11. The method, as recited in claim 8, wherein the step (c) further comprises a step of inviting said registered Consumers to place acceptable purchasing prices for said registered invention products respectively, wherein the step (d) further comprises a step of using purchasing data analyzed and grouped from said information provided by said registered Consumers to define an actual number of orders needed for each of said registered invention products.

12. The method, as recited in claim 9, wherein the step (c) further comprises a step of inviting said registered Consumers to place acceptable purchasing prices for said registered invention products respectively, wherein the step (d) further comprises a step of using purchasing data analyzed and grouped from said information provided by said registered Consumers to define an actual number of orders needed for each of said registered invention products when said purchasing price suggested by said registered Consumers thereto is equal to or more than said suggested selling price thereof.

13. The method, as recited in claim 8, wherein the step (f) further comprise the steps of:

(f-a) analyzing said purchasing database by said Central Processing Center (CPC) to determine most demanded invention products from said registered invention products requested by said registered Consumers and leave other said registered invention products with lower demands for further uses;

(f-b) locating potential suppliers and negotiating for best terms and specifications of said demanded invention products by Central Processing Center (CPC); and

(f-c) placing deposit from said registered Consumers directly to said contracted Supplier upon agreement made between said Central Processing Center (CPC) and said contracted Supplier.

14. The method, as recited in claim 9, wherein the step (f) further comprise the steps of:

(f-a) analyzing said purchasing database by said Central Processing Center (CPC) to determine most demanded invention products from said registered invention products requested by said registered Consumers and leave other said registered invention products with lower demands for further uses;

(f-b) locating potential suppliers and negotiating for best terms and specifications of said demanded invention products by Central Processing Center (CPC); and

(f-c) placing deposit from said registered Consumers directly to said contracted Supplier upon agreement made between said Central Processing Center (CPC) and said contracted Supplier.

15. The method, as recited in claim 8, wherein the step (c) further comprises the steps of:

(c-1) logging on said C2B network by a Consumer; and

(c-2) determining whether said Consumer logged on is one of said registered Consumer.

16. The method, as recited in claim 15, wherein the step (c) further comprises the steps of:

(c-3) providing a screen of a brief introduction with advertisements along with application form when said logged on Consumer is not one of said registered Consumers; and

(c-4) assigning an authorization password for said Consumer to register said Consumer as a new registered Consumer to be capable of entering said C2B network.

17. The method, as recited in claim 11, wherein the step (c) further comprises the steps of:

(c-1) logging on said C2B network by a Consumer;

(c-2) determining whether said Consumer logged on is one of said registered Consumer;

(c-3) providing a screen of a brief introduction with advertisements along with application form when said logged on Consumer is not one of said registered Consumers; and

(c-4) assigning an authorization password for said Consumer to register said Consumer as a new registered Consumer to be capable of entering said C2B network.

18. The method, as recited in claim 1, wherein said C2B network is an Internet, and said Information Database is an electronic database provided in a programmed central processing web site.

19. The method, as recited in claim 11, wherein said C2B network is an Internet, and said Information Database is an electronic database provided in a programmed central processing web site.

20. The method, as recited in claim 8, further comprising a step of market testing each of said registered invention products by posting surveys in said C2B network, so as to enabling said registered Consumers to indicate interests thereof on said registered invention product.

21. The method, as recited in claim 11, further comprising a step of market testing each of said registered invention products by posting surveys in said C2B network, so as to enabling said registered Consumers to indicate interests thereof on said registered invention product.

22. The method, as recited in claim 14, further comprising a step of market testing each of said registered invention products by posting surveys in said C2B network, so as to enabling said registered Consumers to indicate interests thereof on said registered invention product.