Providing gift clustering functionality to assist a user in ordering multiple items for a recipient
First Claim
1. A method for assisting a user of an item purchasing service in giving groups of related items to recipients, the computer-implemented method comprising:
- for each of a plurality of gift clusters and in response to instructions from the user, defining the gift cluster to have multiple related items to be ordered together as a single group by,for each of a plurality of items,displaying information identifying the item to the user;
receiving an indication from the user to add the item to the gift cluster being defined; and
in response, adding the item to the gift cluster being defined;
receiving an indication from the user of at least one category for the gift cluster being defined;
associating the indicated at least one category with the gift cluster being defined; and
storing the user-defined gift clusters for later use in ordering the plurality of items together as a single group;
after the defining of the plurality of gift clusters, displaying to the user information identifying the user-defined gift clusters and the categories associated with each of the gift clusters, the displayed information including information for each of the user-defined gift clusters that includes a single price for ordering the plurality of items of that user-defined gift cluster together as a single group and that includes information regarding delivery of the plurality of items of that user-defined gift cluster together as a single group; and
after selection by the user of a displayed indication of one of the identified gift clusters and an indication of a recipient, sending to a server computer a request to order for the recipient all of the items included in the indicated gift cluster together as a single group in accordance with the displayed information for that gift cluster, so that the user can send multiple related items to a recipient with a single selection.
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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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1. A method for assisting a user of an item purchasing service in giving groups of related items to recipients, the computer-implemented method comprising:
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for each of a plurality of gift clusters and in response to instructions from the user, defining the gift cluster to have multiple related items to be ordered together as a single group by, for each of a plurality of items, displaying information identifying the item to the user; receiving an indication from the user to add the item to the gift cluster being defined; and in response, adding the item to the gift cluster being defined; receiving an indication from the user of at least one category for the gift cluster being defined; associating the indicated at least one category with the gift cluster being defined; and storing the user-defined gift clusters for later use in ordering the plurality of items together as a single group; after the defining of the plurality of gift clusters, displaying to the user information identifying the user-defined gift clusters and the categories associated with each of the gift clusters, the displayed information including information for each of the user-defined gift clusters that includes a single price for ordering the plurality of items of that user-defined gift cluster together as a single group and that includes information regarding delivery of the plurality of items of that user-defined gift cluster together as a single group; and after selection by the user of a displayed indication of one of the identified gift clusters and an indication of a recipient, sending to a server computer a request to order for the recipient all of the items included in the indicated gift cluster together as a single group in accordance with the displayed information for that gift cluster, so that the user can send multiple related items to a recipient with a single selection. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75)
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