AUTOMATIC PURCHASE HISTORY TRACKING
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented process for automatically tracking purchases, comprising:
- receiving a confirmation of a purchase of an item;
automatically parsing purchase information about the purchased item from the confirmation;
storing the parsed information about the purchased item; and
displaying the stored information about the purchased item.
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Abstract
The automatic purchase history tracking technique described herein can capture information about all of a user'"'"'s purchases in a single location, such as, for example, a purchase database. In one embodiment when a user purchases an item from a vendor or store, a confirmation of the item purchase is received by the user. For example, this confirmation could be an email confirmation, a paper receipt or a voice confirmation. This confirmation is automatically parsed by the technique to extract purchase information about the item purchase. This parsed information can then be stored and displayed to the user and can also used for various other purposes, such as, for example, targeted marketing. The parsed stored data can also be enhanced by user annotations, and data pushed and pulled from other sources.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented process for automatically tracking purchases, comprising:
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receiving a confirmation of a purchase of an item; automatically parsing purchase information about the purchased item from the confirmation; storing the parsed information about the purchased item; and displaying the stored information about the purchased item. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for automatically tracking purchases made by a user, comprising:
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a general purpose computing device; a computer program comprising program modules executable by the general purpose computing device, wherein the computing device is directed by the program modules of the computer program to, obtain purchase transaction data for each item purchased by a given user; automatically parse specific information from the purchase transaction data; and store the parsed data in a database for later use. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer-implemented process for automatically tracking purchases, comprising:
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accessing a user'"'"'s electronic mail to identify one or more electronic confirmations associated with the purchases of the one or more items or services by the user; extracting the identified one or more electronic confirmations; automatically parsing purchase information about the one or more purchased items or services from the one or more extracted electronic confirmations; storing the parsed purchase information about the purchased items and services for later use. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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17. The computer-implemented process of claim 17 wherein identifying the one or more electronic confirmations further comprises searching the electronic mail for words that are associated with the purchase of items and services.
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