METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING COMMISSIONS FROM E-COMMERCE TRANSACTION ASSISTANCE
First Claim
1. A method for generating sales and/or transaction commissions for a purchase reminder provider, the method comprising:
- enabling a consumer to schedule a future purchase of an item from an e-commerce provider;
allowing the consumer to designate a method of payment during a process of scheduling the future purchase of the item from the e-commerce provider, wherein the method of payment includes a credit card, a saved credit card number in the e-commerce provider, a PayPal account, and/or another method of payment;
giving the consumer an option to select a particular date and time or a dynamic event for a delivery of a text-to-speech (TTS) purchase reminder phone call; and
taking product-related and price-related information for the item from the e-commerce provider to calculate the sales and/or transaction commissions configured to be charged to the e-commerce provider, wherein the sales and/or transaction commissions are charged to the e-commerce provider if the consumer utilizes or benefits from the text-to-speech (TTS) purchase reminder phone call to authorize, authenticate, and/or complete a purchase transaction of the item.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for generating commissions from e-commerce transaction assistance provided by a network-based text-to-speech (TTS) alert system. The network-based text-to-speech (TTS) alert system takes a user'"'"'s textual and/or multimedia input from a user interface to schedule delivery of text-to-speech-converted information as a reminder call to a user once the user'"'"'s desired time or an event for the reminder delivery is reached. If the delivered reminder call is associated with a particular e-commerce transaction, then the network-based text-to-speech (TTS) alert system is capable of taking a user feedback for authorization of the particular e-commerce transaction over an IVR interface during the reminder call or an online calendar interface. Once and if the user completes the authorization for the particular e-commerce transaction, the text-to-speech (TTS) alert system can charge and collect a sales and/or transaction commission from an e-commerce provider associated with the e-commerce transaction.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for generating sales and/or transaction commissions for a purchase reminder provider, the method comprising:
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enabling a consumer to schedule a future purchase of an item from an e-commerce provider; allowing the consumer to designate a method of payment during a process of scheduling the future purchase of the item from the e-commerce provider, wherein the method of payment includes a credit card, a saved credit card number in the e-commerce provider, a PayPal account, and/or another method of payment; giving the consumer an option to select a particular date and time or a dynamic event for a delivery of a text-to-speech (TTS) purchase reminder phone call; and taking product-related and price-related information for the item from the e-commerce provider to calculate the sales and/or transaction commissions configured to be charged to the e-commerce provider, wherein the sales and/or transaction commissions are charged to the e-commerce provider if the consumer utilizes or benefits from the text-to-speech (TTS) purchase reminder phone call to authorize, authenticate, and/or complete a purchase transaction of the item. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for generating sales and/or transaction commissions for a purchase reminder voice phone call provider and/or an online calendar provider, the method comprising:
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enabling a consumer to schedule a future purchase of an item from an e-commerce provider; allowing the consumer to designate a method of payment during a process of scheduling the future purchase of the item from the e-commerce provider, wherein the method of payment includes a credit card, a saved credit card number in the e-commerce provider, a PayPal account, or another method of payment; giving the consumer a first option to select a particular date and time or a dynamic event for a delivery of a purchase reminder as a voice phone call by the purchase reminder voice phone call provider; giving the consumer a second option to place the purchase reminder as an entry to an online calendar provided by the online calendar provider, wherein the entry includes a hyperlink to an Internet storefront of the e-commerce provider; and taking product-related and price-related information for the item from the e-commerce provider to calculate the sales and/or transaction commissions configured to be charged to the e-commerce provider, wherein the sales and/or transaction commissions are charged to the e-commerce provider if the consumer utilizes or benefits from the purchase reminder as the voice phone call or as the entry to the online calendar to authorize, authenticate, and/or complete a purchase transaction of the item. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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