Intelligent agents for electronic commerce
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- storing, at a computer system, a set of electronic advertisements corresponding to products from two or more providers;
selecting one or more advertisements from the stored set of electronic advertisements, wherein the selecting is performed by the computer system based at least in part on;
information relating to a particular consumer; and
information corresponding to one or more time periods that individual ones of the electronic advertisements are to be made available to consumers by the computer system; and
sending, from the computer system, the selected one or more advertisements to an indicated destination.
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Abstract
A system for electronic commerce (10) having personal agents (12 and 13) that represent consumers and providers in a virtual marketplace (28). Consumer personal agents conceal the identity of the consumer and are capable of creating decision agents (14) that shop for products and assist consumers in comparing and ranking products. Provider personal agents are capable of creating demand agents (16) that quantify demand and target specific consumers without learning the identity of the consumers. Based on data generated by the activities of the decision agents and on preference data maintained by consumer personal agents, provider personal agents can quantify current, historical, and future demand, simulate demand, and target specific consumers for advertising and other messages. Provider personal agents can cooperate with consumer personal agents to collect data about reasons for sales and lost sales and to offer consideration payments to consumers. Consumer personal agents can automatically reject unsolicited messages that do not satisfy the consumer'"'"'s preferences.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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storing, at a computer system, a set of electronic advertisements corresponding to products from two or more providers; selecting one or more advertisements from the stored set of electronic advertisements, wherein the selecting is performed by the computer system based at least in part on; information relating to a particular consumer; and information corresponding to one or more time periods that individual ones of the electronic advertisements are to be made available to consumers by the computer system; and sending, from the computer system, the selected one or more advertisements to an indicated destination. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, responsive to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
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storing a set of electronic advertisements corresponding to products from two or more providers; selecting one or more advertisements of the set of stored electronic advertisements, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on; information relating to a particular consumer; and information corresponding to one or more time periods that individual ones of the electronic advertisements are to be made available to consumers; and sending the selected one or more advertisements to an indicated destination. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system, comprising:
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a processor; and memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions executable by the system to cause the system to perform operations comprising; storing a set of electronic advertisements corresponding to products from two or more providers; selecting one or more advertisements from the stored set of electronic advertisements, wherein the selecting is performed by the computer system based at least in part on; information relating to a particular consumer; and information corresponding to one or more time periods that individual ones of the electronic advertisements are to be made available to consumers; and sending the selected one or more advertisements to an indicated destination. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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