PROVIDING GIFT CLUSTERING FUNCTIONALITY TO ASSIST A USER IN ORDERING MULTIPLE ITEMS FOR A RECIPIENT
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Abstract
A method and system for creating of gift clusters of multiple items in a client/server environment by users, and for the ordering of such user-defined gift clusters of multiple items. In particular, a user can specify multiple items to be associated together as a gift cluster, and can also specify a variety of descriptive information about the gift cluster. That user or another user can then order the gift cluster as a gift for themselves or for another recipient, and may also order the gift cluster for the same or different recipients multiple times. The descriptive information can provide various information about how the gift cluster is to be used, and can also assist the user or others in identifying when the gift cluster is appropriate for a recipient. When customers are later searching for appropriate gift clusters, the various categorization or other descriptive information can then assist is identifying appropriate gift clusters. The gift clustering functionality may be provided by and work in conjunction with a particular item ordering service, or instead may work independently from any particular item ordering service.
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99 Claims
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1-74. -74. (canceled)
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75. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
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receiving, by a configured computing system of an item ordering service, information from a user indicating a search criterion that includes a specified characteristic of an intended recipient other than the user; based at least in part on the specified characteristic of the indicated search criterion, identifying, by the configured computing system, a group of multiple items available from the item ordering service that is determined to be appropriate for the intended recipient, the group of multiple items having been defined by a customer of the item ordering service distinct from the user; and providing, by the configured computing system, information for display to the user indicating that the group of multiple items is determined to be appropriate for the intended recipient. - View Dependent Claims (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88)
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89. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing specific computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, causes the computing device to at least:
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receive information from a first user defining a group of multiple items available from an item ordering service; receive a search criterion from a second user distinct from the first user, the search criterion including a characteristic of a recipient that is distinct from the first and second users; and based at least in part on receiving the search criterion, determine that the group of multiple items is appropriate for the recipient having the characteristic; and provide information for display to the second user identifying the group of multiple items as a single item that is available to be ordered for the recipient. - View Dependent Claims (90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95)
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96. A system comprising:
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an electronic data store configured to at least store specific computer-executable instructions; and a processor in communication with the electronic data store, the processor configured to execute the specific computer-executable instructions to at least; receive information defining a group of multiple items, the information being received from a first user of multiple users of an item acquisition service, the multiple items being available to the multiple users from the item acquisition service; select the group of multiple items as being appropriate for an intended recipient based at least in part on categorization information associated with the group of multiple items; and provide information for display to a second user of the multiple users that is distinct from the first user, the provided information indicating that the group of multiple items is appropriate for the intended recipient and identifying the group of multiple items as a single item that is available to be acquired from the item acquisition service. - View Dependent Claims (97, 98, 99)
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