Mobile shopping method and application
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1. A commissioning system to provide a representative of product information to a shopper having a cell phone and to credit commissions for activity by the shopper regarding the product comprising:
- a commissioning server running a server application, a merchant system that tracks store inventory and sales to the shopper, a product data distribution system for holding product and inventory data received from the merchant system, a client application running on the shopper'"'"'s cell phone for querying the commissioning server application for product information, and for viewing a representative of the product information, wherein the commissioning server, in response to a query from the client application, queries the product data distribution system for product information and returns a first representative of that information to the commissioning server, which returns to the client application a second representative of the information returned from the product data distribution system, wherein the client application informs the commissioning server when it has viewed said second representative, in response to which the commissioning server invokes a tracking click to the product data distribution system, which credits a first commission to the commissioning system.
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Abstract
A system and method for crediting fees and commissions for the use by customers of mobile phones to search for product information directly from merchants or indirectly through product information aggregators. Further it provides for crediting fees and commissions for sending product identification to other customer'"'"'s mobile phones. It supports third party use of the system to distribute specific sets of product instances accessible by users of a private label system.
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1. A commissioning system to provide a representative of product information to a shopper having a cell phone and to credit commissions for activity by the shopper regarding the product comprising:
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a commissioning server running a server application, a merchant system that tracks store inventory and sales to the shopper, a product data distribution system for holding product and inventory data received from the merchant system, a client application running on the shopper'"'"'s cell phone for querying the commissioning server application for product information, and for viewing a representative of the product information, wherein the commissioning server, in response to a query from the client application, queries the product data distribution system for product information and returns a first representative of that information to the commissioning server, which returns to the client application a second representative of the information returned from the product data distribution system, wherein the client application informs the commissioning server when it has viewed said second representative, in response to which the commissioning server invokes a tracking click to the product data distribution system, which credits a first commission to the commissioning system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23)
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7. A commissioning system to provide a representative of product information to a shopper having a cell phone and to credit commissions for activity by the shopper regarding the product comprising:
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a commissioning server running a server application, a merchant system that tracks store inventory and sales to the shopper, a product data distribution system for holding product and inventory data received from the merchant system, a client application running on the shopper'"'"'s cell phone for querying the commissioning server application for product information, and for viewing a representative of the product information, wherein the commissioning server, in response to a query from the client application, queries the product data distribution system for product information and returns a first representative of that information to the commissioning server, which returns to the client application a second representative of the information returned from the product data distribution system, wherein upon purchase by the shopper of the viewed product, the store advises the merchant system and the merchant system provides information to the product data distribution system to credit a second commission to the server application.
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8. A commissioning system to provide a representative of product information to a shopper having a cell phone and to credit commissions for activity by the shopper regarding the product comprising:
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a commissioning server running a server application, a merchant system that tracks store inventory and sales to the shopper and which holds product and inventory data, a client application running on the shopper'"'"'s cell phone for querying the commissioning server application for product information, and for viewing a representative of the product information, wherein the commissioning server, in response to a query from the client application, queries the merchant system for product information and returns a first representative of that information to the commissioning server, which returns to the client application a second representative of the information returned from the product data distribution system, wherein the client application informs the commissioning server when it has viewed said second representative, in response to which the commissioning server invokes a tracking click to the merchant system, which credits a first commission to the commissioning system. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. A commissioning system to provide a representative of product information to a shopper having a cell phone and to credit commissions for activity by the shopper regarding the product comprising:
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a commissioning server running a server application, a merchant system that tracks store inventory and sales to the shopper and holds product and inventory data, a client application running on the shopper'"'"'s cell phone for querying the commissioning server application for product information, and for viewing a representative of the product information, wherein the commissioning server, in response to a query from the client application, queries the merchant system for product information and returns a first representative of that information to the commissioning server, which returns to the client application a second representative of the information returned from the merchant system, wherein upon purchase by the shopper of the viewed product, the store advises the merchant system and the merchant system credits a second commission to the server application.
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20. A commissioning system to provide a representative of product information to a shopper having a cell phone and to credit commissions for activity by the shopper regarding the product comprising:
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a commissioning server running a server application, a merchant system that tracks store inventory and sales to the shopper, a product data distribution system for holding product and inventory data received from the merchant system, a client application running on the shopper'"'"'s cell phone and comprising a shopping list, for querying the shopping list for product information, and for viewing a representative of the product information, wherein the commissioning server queries the product data distribution system for product information and pushes a representative of that information to the shopping list of the client application, wherein the client application informs the commissioning server when it has viewed said representative of the product information, in response to which the commissioning server invokes a tracking click to the product data distribution system, which credits a first commission to the commissioning system. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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