Methods, Systems, and Products for Conducting Electronic Commerce

• US 20120197767A1
• Filed: 04/06/2012
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zellner, Samuel N., O'Neil, Douglas R.
• Application Number:
  US13/441,015
• Publication Number:
  US 20120197767A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0204 Market segmentation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0222 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0254 based on statistics
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0605 Supply or demand aggregation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Processes, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for conducting electronic commerce. A website portal to an online community of merchants is stored. A customer'"'"'s browsing behavior in the online community of merchants is tracked and provided to each merchant in the online community of merchants.

Claims

1. A process, comprising:

storing a website portal to an online community of merchants;

tracking a customer'"'"'s browsing behavior in the online community of merchants; and

providing the customer'"'"'s browsing behavior to each merchant in the online community of merchants.

2. The process according to claim 1, further comprising generating a summary of sales of each merchant in the online community of merchants.

3. The process according to claim 2, further comprising categorizing the sales.

4. The process according to claim 3, further comprising determining an average selling price for each category.

5. The process according to claim 3, further comprising querying for inventory related to a category.

6. The process according to claim 5, further comprising retrieving a description of a related item in the category.

7. The process according to claim 2, further comprising sending the summary to each merchant in the online community of merchants.

8. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor;

memory; and

code stored in then memory that causes the processor at least to;

store a website portal to an online community of merchants;

track a customer'"'"'s browsing behavior in the online community of merchants; and

send the customer'"'"'s browsing behavior to each merchant in the online community of merchants.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the code further causes the processor to generate a summary of sales of each merchant in the online community of merchants.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the code further causes the processor to categorize the sales.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the code further causes the processor to determine an average selling price for each category.

12. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the code further causes the processor to query for inventory related to a category.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the code further causes the processor to retrieve a description of a related item in the category.

14. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the code further causes the processor to send the summary to each merchant in the online community of merchants.

15. A computer readable medium storing processor executable instructions for performing a process, the process comprising:

storing a website portal to an online community of merchants;

tracking a customer'"'"'s browsing behavior in the online community of merchants; and

providing the customer'"'"'s browsing behavior to each merchant in the online community of merchants.

16. The computer readable medium according to claim 15, further comprising instructions for generating a summary of sales of each merchant in the online community of merchants.

17. The computer readable medium according to claim 16, further comprising instructions for categorizing the sales.

18. The computer readable medium according to claim 17, further comprising instructions for determining an average selling price for each category.

19. The computer readable medium according to claim 17, further comprising instructions for querying for inventory related to a category.

20. The computer readable medium according to claim 19, further comprising instructions for retrieving a description of a related item in the category.