APPARATUS, METHOD AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS FOR TIMELY PROVISION OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE

• US 20150012389A1
• Filed: 06/25/2014
• Published: 01/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alexander Perman
• Original Assignee: Alexander Perman
• Inventors: PERMAN, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US14/314,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20150012389A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.81
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders

Abstract

The present invention provides systems and methods for time-dependent payment for a service or product, the method including defining a planned time for provision of a service or product to a user location from a service or product provider, measuring an actual time for the provision to the user location of the service or product and reducing the payment for the service or product responsive to a quantification of delay between the actual time and the planned time.

Claims

12. A computer software product, said product configured for providing time-dependent payment for a service or product, the product comprising a computer-readable medium in which program instructions are stored, which instructions, when read by a computer, cause the computer to:

a. receiving from a remote computerized device a first message indicating an event of ordering a product or a service;

said first message comprises an identification of said product or said service and an identification of said location of said user;

b. retrieving from a data repository parameters associated with said product or said service or with said location of said user;

c. calculating a planned time for provision of said service or product to a user location;

said calculating being associated with at least one of said parameters and said location of said user; and

d. receiving a second message indicating an event of provisioning to said user location of the service or product;

e. calcuating according to said first message and said second message a delay between an actual time of provisioning said product or said service and said planed time; and

f. retrieving from a data repository a feedback action associated with said delay wherein said feedback action being proportionally to said delay.

13-1. The system claim 13 wherein the communication unit is farther configured for receiving said feedback action associated with said delay and wherein said displaying unit is farther configured for displaying said feedback action;