Sharing an ensemble of items

• US 9,953,357 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2014
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bread Financial Payments Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Comenity LLC (Alliance Data Systems Corporation)
• Inventors: Ainsworth, III, Richard Barber, Koltnow, Adam
• Primary Examiner(s): Sittner, Matthew T
• Application Number:
  US14/508,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20160098775A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,295 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0222 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

In a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method for sharing an ensemble of items, access to a plurality of retail items to a user is enabled, wherein an ensemble of items is created from the retail items by the user. The ensemble of items are accessed, and the ensemble of items are shared such that the ensemble of items is able to be viewed by others.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method for sharing an ensemble of items, the method comprising:

enabling access to a plurality of retail items on a retailer website;

displaying, on a display of said computer system, the plurality of retail items;

creating an ensemble of retail items,

the ensemble of retail items created from at least two of said plurality of retail items,

said ensemble of retail items created by input received, at an input device of the computer system, from an ensemble creator;

sharing said ensemble of retail items such that said ensemble of retail items is able to be viewed by others;

tracking a number of interactive metrics about said ensemble of retail items,

the number of interactive metrics generated by actions of the others,

the number of interactive metrics, by the others, including;

a number of views of the ensemble of retail items,

a number of likes of the ensemble of retail items, and

a number of recommendations of the ensemble of retail items;

assigning a point value for each of said interactive metrics;

determining a total point value for said ensemble of retail items; and

providing, via the computer system, a reward to said ensemble creator when said total point value for said ensemble of retail items exceeds a reward threshold and when said ensemble of retail items is a parent ensemble to subsequently created ensembles of retail items.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of retail items are provided by a single brand name.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising:

storing said ensemble of retail items.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said sharing said ensemble of retail items further comprises:

posting said ensemble of retail items on a website.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said sharing said ensemble of retail items further comprises:

posting said ensemble of retail items on a social network.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising:

incentivizing purchase of said ensemble of retail items.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said plurality of retail items is selected from a group of:

clothing and accessories.

8. A computer-implemented method for incentivizing generation of ensembles of retail items, said computer-implemented method comprising:

accessing, by a computing device, a plurality of retail items on a retailer website;

displaying, on a display of said computing device, the plurality of retail items;

creating, via the computing device, an ensemble of retail items,

said ensemble of retail items created from at least two of the plurality of retail items,

said ensemble of retail items created by input received, at an input device of the computing device, from an ensemble creator;

sharing, via the computing device, said ensemble of retail items such that said ensemble of retail items is able to be viewed by others;

tracking, via the computing device, a number of interactive metrics about said ensemble of retail items,

the number of interactive metrics generated by actions of the others,

the number of interactive metrics, by the others, including;

a number of views of the ensemble of retail items,

a number of likes of the ensemble of retail items, and

a number of recommendations of the ensemble of retail items;

assigning, via the computing device, a point value for each of said interactive metrics;

determining, via the computing device, a total point value for said ensemble of retail items; and

providing, via the computing device, a reward to said ensemble creator when said total point value for said ensemble of retail items exceeds a reward threshold and when said ensemble of retail items is a parent ensemble to subsequently created ensembles of retail items.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing priority access to other plurality of retail items to the ensemble creator.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein each of said plurality of retail items are provided by a single brand name.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein said plurality of retail items is selected from a group of:

clothing and accessories.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein said sharing said ensemble of retail items further comprises:

posting said ensemble of retail items on the retailer website.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein said sharing said ensemble of retail items further comprises:

posting said ensemble of retail items on a social network.