METHOD, MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM FOR UNIVERSAL SHOPPING CART ORDER INJECTION AND PAYMENT DETERMINATION

• US 20130013455A1
• Filed: 09/14/2012
• Published: 01/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Liberty Peak Ventures, LLC (Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Zanni Assets Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Tarvydas, Martin K., Sandori, Mark I., Maple, Eric S., Byerly, Timothy P., Markus, Matthew A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,533,064 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.41
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0617 Representative agent
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0625 Directed, with specific intent or strategy
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

A universal shopping cart is provided that obtains and orders products and services from different merchants located on the Internet. The consumer completes all of their shopping on the shopping site and is not directed to another merchant'"'"'s site to complete an order. The universal shopping cart provides a monitoring service that allows the consumer to monitor a product for specified criteria. The order injection system places orders for products contained within the universal shopping cart from affiliated and non-affiliated merchants. Specific ordering details required from merchants external to the shopping site are hidden from the consumer. For external merchant sites that require a consumer account before allowing the product to be purchased, the shopping site creates a new consumer account without intervention from the consumer. Once the products are ordered, the consumer may keep track of the ordered products from the shopping site.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computing device configured to analyze and distribute data, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

searching, by the computing device, product information from a merchant;

providing, by the computing device, for display, the product information; and

injecting, by the computing device, a product order to the merchant associated with a product selected by a customer without directing the customer to a website of the merchant associated with a selected product.

2. A method comprising:

searching, by a computing device configured to analyze and distribute data, product information from a merchant;

providing, by the computing device, for display, the product information; and

injecting, by the computing device, a product order to the merchant associated with a product selected by a customer without directing the customer to a website of the merchant associated with a selected product.