System and Method for Availability-Based Limited-Time Offerings and Transactions
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1. A method comprising of:
- receiving an offer;
matching one or more customers with the offer; and
transmitting the offer and an expiration of the offer to the one or more customers.
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Abstract
System and method for availability based on limited-time offerings and transactions. One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method that, based on a set of known preferences and historic transactions with customers, culls from a customer database those customers most likely to close a transaction in a short time. The selected customers are notified of the offer, and the system processes the customers responses in a timely manner, and thus allow fleeting inventories to be sold off before they expire.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising of:
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receiving an offer; matching one or more customers with the offer; and transmitting the offer and an expiration of the offer to the one or more customers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A machine-accessible medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a machine will cause said machine to perform operations comprising of:
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receiving an offer; matching one or more customers with the offer; and transmitting the offer and an expiration of the offer to the one or more customers. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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20. A system comprising:
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unit to receive an offer; a unit to match one or more customers with the offer; and a unit to transmit the offer and an expiration of the offer to the one or more customers.
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