Considering selling exemplar-based goods, items, or services

• US 20100211477A1
• Filed: 04/23/2010
• Published: 08/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Rinaldo, John D. JR., Lord, Robert W., Levien, Royce A., Jung, Edward K. Y., Malamud, Mark A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,600,832 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/083 Shipping
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation

Abstract

One aspect relates to managing deliveries of at least one goods, items, and/or services that could be received by at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing an exemplar as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services. Another aspect relates to considering selling goods, items, and/or services from an exemplar merchant and/or store at least partially utilizing an exemplar item information as derived from a customer'"'"'s previous history, wherein at least some of the exemplar item information as derived from the customer'"'"'s previous history could be stored in certain embodiments of at least a portion of a shopping control mechanism. Yet another aspect relates to receiving an exemplar item information that can be used to recognize an exemplar as corresponding to an at least one goods, items, and/or services.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

managing deliveries of at least one good, item, and/or service that could be received by at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing an exemplar as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the managing deliveries of at least one good, item, and/or service that could be received by at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing an exemplar as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services further comprises:

managing the deliveries of the at least one goods, items, and/or services that could be received by the at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing the exemplar at least partially using an electronic-based recognition as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the managing deliveries of at least one good, item, and/or service that could be received by at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing an exemplar as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services further comprises:

managing the deliveries of the at least one goods, items, and/or services that could be received by the at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing the exemplar at least partially using an audio-based recognition as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the managing deliveries of at least one good, item, and/or service that could be received by at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing an exemplar as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services further comprises:

managing the deliveries of the at least one goods, items, and/or services that could be received by the at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing the exemplar at least partially using an image-based recognition as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the managing deliveries of at least one good, item, and/or service that could be received by at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing an exemplar as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services further comprises:

offering for sale of the at least one goods, items, and/or services that could be received by the at least one customer.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the managing deliveries of at least one good, item, and/or service that could be received by at least one customer further comprises:

sequencing the deliveries of the at least one goods, items, and/or services that could be received by the at least one customer based at least in part on exemplar item information is operable to be received at a shopping control mechanism.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the managing deliveries of at least one good, item, and/or service could be at least partially performed using a shopping control mechanism.

8. A method comprising:

considering selling goods, items, and/or services from an exemplar merchant and/or store at least partially utilizing an exemplar item information as derived from a customer'"'"'s previous history, wherein at least some of the exemplar item information as derived from the customer'"'"'s previous history could be stored in certain embodiments of at least a portion of a shopping control mechanism.

9. A method, comprising:

receiving an exemplar item information that can be used to recognize an exemplar as corresponding to an at least one good, item, and/or service; and

sequencing a delivery of the at least one good, item, and/or service to a shopper at least partially in response to the receiving the exemplar item information.

10-38. -38. (canceled)

39. A system comprising:

circuitry for receiving an exemplar item information that can be used to recognize an exemplar as corresponding to an at least one good, item, and/or service; and

circuitry for sequencing a delivery of the at least one good, item, and/or service to a shopper at least partially in response to the receiving the exemplar item information.