METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE ELECTRONIC PURCHASE OF GOODS OR SERVICES

• US 20140032295A1
• Filed: 07/24/2013
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Edward Cantrell
• Original Assignee: Edward Cantrell
• Inventors: Cantrell, Edward
• Application Number:
  US13/950,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20140032295A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.23
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0252 based on events or environment, e.g. weather or festivals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for facilitating the electronic purchase of any product or a service. Specifically, the method provides a geolocated store for the electronic purchase of products and services that uses a merchant specified geofence to define the electronic offers that are promoted, performed, or otherwise presented to a viewer during an event, and in one embodiment at or near the moment the product or service is promoted, performed, or otherwise presented to the viewer.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing a server operable to receive and transmit electronic data, the server including a processor module and an electronic database;

receiving, by the server, a signal indicative of a location of a remote device;

processing, by the server, of the signal indicative of the location to determine if the remote device is within an area of a predetermined geofence;

transmitting, by the server, an offer associated with the predetermined geofence;

receiving, by the server, a signal indicative of an acceptance to the offer; and

transmitting, by the server, a signal indicative of an accepted offer to a predetermined payment system.

2. The method of claim 1, further providing a remote device, the remote device being selected from a group consisting of a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a portable media player, and wearable optical devices.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the remote device includes a global positioning system providing a location of the remote device in latitude and longitude and further comprising:

receiving, by the server, the signal indicative of the location of the remote device in latitude and longitude; and

processing, by the server, of the signal indicative of the location of the remote device in latitude and longitude to determine if the remote device is within the area of the predetermined geofence.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the server, a request to transmit the offer associated with the predetermined geofence; and

receiving, by the server, a signal indicative of an acceptance to the request.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving, by the server, a signal indicative of a time stamp of the remote device;

processing, by the server, of the signal indicative of the time stamp to determine if the remote device is within a time period of the predetermined geofence.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the server, a request for dynamic in-the-moment offers;

receiving, by the server, a signal indicative of an acceptance to the request for dynamic in-the-moment offers;

establishing, by the server, a communication channel;

transmitting, by the server, at least one dynamic in-the-moment offer;

receiving, by the server, a signal indicative of an acceptance to the dynamic in-the-moment offer; and

transmitting, by the server, a signal indicative of an accepted dynamic in-the-moment offer to a predetermined payment system.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

transmitting, by the server, the at least one dynamic in-the-moment offer according to a trigger event.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the trigger event is selected from a group consisting of a predetermined server action, a third party input, an occurrence of a predetermined audio visual event, a time period, and a geofence event.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one event account is stored in the electronic database, the event account accessible on the server by an event host and having at least one offer associated with said event account.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein an application on the remote device is in communication with the server and displays the offers on the remote device.

11. A method comprising:

providing a remote device operable to receive and transmit electronic data;

;

transmitting, by the remote device, a signal indicative of a location of a remote device;

receiving, by the remote device, a request for dynamic in-the-moment offers if the remote device is within an area of a predetermined geofence;

transmitting, by the remote device, a signal indicative of an acceptance to the request for dynamic in-the-moment offers;

receiving, by the remote device, a communication channel;

receiving, by the remote device, at least one dynamic in-the-moment offer;

transmitting, by the remote device, a signal indicative of an acceptance to the dynamic in-the-moment offer; and

transmitting, by the remote device, a signal indicative of an accepted dynamic in-the-moment offer to a predetermined payment system.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising the remote device being selected from a group consisting of a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a portable media player, and wearable optical devices.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the remote device includes a global positioning system providing a location of the remote device in latitude and longitude and further comprising:

transmitting, by the remote device, the signal indicative of the location of the remote device in latitude and longitude.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving, by the remote device, a request to transmit the offer associated with the predetermined geofence; and

transmitting, by the remote device, a signal indicative of an acceptance to the request.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

transmitting, by the remote device, a signal indicative of a time stamp of the remote device;

receiving, by the remote device, a request for dynamic in-the-moment offers if the remote device is within a time period of the predetermined geofence.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving, by the remote device, the at least one dynamic in-the-moment offer according to a trigger event.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the trigger event is selected from a group consisting of a predetermined server action, a third party input, an occurrence of a predetermined audio visual event, a time period, and a geofence event.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein an application on the remote device is in communication with a server and displays the offers on the remote device.

19. A method comprising:

providing a server operable to receive and transmit electronic data, the server including a processor module and an electronic database;

providing a remote device operable to receive and transmit electronic data, the remote device including a processor module and an application in communication with the server;

receiving, by the server, a signal indicative of a location of a remote device;

processing, by the server, of the signal indicative of the location to determine if the remote device is within an area of a predetermined geofence;

transmitting, by the server, an offer associated with the predetermined geofence;

receiving, by the server, a signal indicative of an acceptance to the offer; and

transmitting, by the remote device, a signal indicative of an accepted offer to a predetermined payment system.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

transmitting, by the server, a request for dynamic in-the-moment offers;

receiving, by the server, a signal indicative of an acceptance to the request for dynamic in-the-moment offers;

establishing, by the server, a communication channel;

transmitting, by the server, at least one dynamic in-the-moment offer;

receiving, by the server, a signal indicative of an acceptance to the dynamic in-the-moment offer; and

transmitting, by the remote device, a signal indicative of an accepted dynamic in-the-moment offer to a predetermined payment system.