32 results about "Group Purchasing" patented technology

The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method/system for facilitating communications between service providers and potential customers for services. The computer-implemented method/system provides a marketplace for interactions, both online and off-line, between service providers and potential customers, including purchasing groups, particularly buyer-driven service-related interactions. The marketplace advantageously allows categorization, key word searching, group purchasing, service packaging, data mining, auctions and other commercial features and functionality. The computer-implemented method/system also supports holographic imagery, e.g., in the form of virtual assistants, that facilitates marketplace-related activities. Based on the computer-implemented method/system, service providers are able to efficiently and cost effectively extend the reach of their marketing and promotional activities to a wide range of additional customers, and customers are able to initiate access service providers ideally suited to meet their needs, i.e., buyer-driven commerce, at desirable prices and according to required timeframes.

When a group purchasing application according to a group of a predetermined number of persons is received, a group purchasing key that identifies the group is issued. When a product purchasing procedure request having the group purchasing key is received from a user, a payment processing is carried out at a normal price without a discount, and a product shipping processing is carried out. After the purchasing procedure processing for all users in the group is completed, a discount amount according to the group purchasing is calculated, and a discount amount payback processing is carried out.

Improved systems and methods for soliciting, acquiring and managing information associated with both buyers and sellers in a purchasing transaction. The system includes the computer hardware infrastructure necessary to allow specific input and management access to databases maintained by or through sellers of products and services, by the individual participants/purchasers of the products and services. The improved systems and methods permit paperless enrollment and information management into individual purchasing transactions and group purchasing transactions. The improved methods allow noncomputer literate individuals to readily understand, access and accurately manage information about themselves in association with an individual purchase transaction or an association with group purchasing transactions. The present invention finds particular application in such fields as employee benefit enrollment plans, group insurance plans and other types of goods and services purchasing transactions where significant amounts of information regarding the buyer might be required.

Allowing users to organize financial resources, it is one object of the present invention to provide a ticket vending and purchasing system for preventing illegal activities, such as ticket scalping, and for ensuring the price determiner is able to exercise their right to setting the price for events. A group purchasing method and system using the Internet is provided. Members of a group register for an event and provide a method of individual payment. A following permission to allow purchase by a system defined agent allows a single agent to purchase the group package for all registered members. The system uses each person's payment information and not only a single user's.

A commerce exchange system manages contracts between manufacturers, distributors, and purchasers, and is accessible by all of the contracting parties over the Internet. Group purchasing organizations can access the system to place orders for distribution to various end users. The system stores data representing information regarding all of the parties in the contracting process. The system also stores data describing all of the products and services available from the seller, including dates of availability, sizes, prices, and other such information. The system also stores and updates all of the contract terms, product shipments, payments made, rebates due and chargeback payments.

The Invention encompasses a system comprising a novel Volume Purchase Rebate Business Method, Volume Purchase Rebate Appliance sub-system, Volume Purchase Rebate Online-Interactive Showroom sub-system, Volume Purchase Rebate Online-Interactive Showcase sub-system, Volume Purchase Rebate Online-Interactive SalesPerson sub-system and Online-Interactive Ordering or Online-Interactive Re-Ordering sub-systems, and methods and processes for purchasing or volume purchasing or excess inventory purchasing or excess capacity purchasing for a plurality of purchasers who are in fact group purchasing yet purchasing individually from merchants for goods, products and services and obtaining and investing rebates while purchasing over the counter or real-time interactive online direct ordering and automatic re-ordering of said goods and services.

The business method of managing and providing healthcare includes the formation of a centralized management organization for managing and organizing at least one group purchasing cooperative, formed from a plurality of members. Preferably, the plurality of members are selected from employers. Data and information related to the plurality of members is preferably stored and organized via a computerized system, and the group purchasing cooperative negotiates contracts directly with healthcare-related manufacturers and distributors for healthcare-related goods and services, in order to negotiate group benefits, such as discounts, rebates and the like. The goods and services may then be provided directly the members of the group purchasing cooperative.

Disclosed in the invention is a cloud-service-based marketing system. The marketing system comprises a cloud server, a commerce and trade service platform carrying out data interaction with the cloud server, and a marketing platform connected to the commerce and trade service platform. The marketing platform consists of a marketing official account sub system, a micro e-commerce supplier management subsystem, a payment subsystem, a membership management subsystem, and a group purchasing application subsystem. According to the cloud-service-based marketing system disclosed by the invention, on the basis of the big data analysis of the cloud server, consuming and transaction data of the user, the merchant and the third party are collected based on the big data analysis; and the related data are pushed to the user, the merchant and the third party accurately. Therefore, the accuracy of marketing platform information is improved, the information resource wasting is avoided; and healthy, secure, and efficient development of the e-commerce platform is promoted.

A method for conducting an online group auction of homogeneous shares in an undivided lot uses a server computer accessible via a data network. An associated database contains details of an undivided lot, such as a real estate property, available for auction, and information representing a share offering. The offering comprises a number of homogeneous shares in the undivided lot, each share having an associate individual share price. Participating bidders submit bids via the data network, each bid including information identifying a maximum number of shares, and a maximum price per share. The server determines a degree of success of the bid based on an extent to which the maximum price per share exceeds a current individual share price of one or more of the homogeneous shares. The server then updates the information representing the share offering in accordance with the determined degree of success of the bid.

An e-commerce system for managing group buy operations has a group server (14) to hold data relating to all purchases of the same product or range of products over a time period and outputs data relating to a projected price curve and current membership of the group, based on a pricing engine (12) for display at an e-commerce portal.

The application of the invention provides a method for authenticity detection on sale data of a group purchasing website. The method comprises the following steps that: a real-time sale quantity displayed in current group purchasing list information is obtained; a real-time degree of the current group purchasing list is obtained; a differential value of weighted values of the real-time sale quantity and the real-time degree is obtained, wherein the real-time sale quantity and the real-time degree are displayed in the current group purchasing list information in a same time interval; if the differential value is greater than a threshold value, it is determined that sale data of the current group purchasing list is not true; otherwise, it is determined that sale data of the current group purchasing list is true. In addition, the application also provides an apparatus for authenticity detection on sale data of a group purchasing website, wherein the apparatus is used for realizing the method. According to the method and the apparatus thereof provided in the application of the invention, a problem on determination of authenticity of sale data of a group purchasing website can be solved.

The invention discloses a logistics transport capacity group purchasing method and system, and the method comprises the steps that a logistics electronic commerce platform receives a request that a cargo owner transports a large batch of cargos, the weight of which is higher than the maximum bearing weight of a unit vehicle; the logistics electronic commerce platform generates logistics transportgroup capacity purchasing information according to the request of the cargo owner in transporting the large batch of cargos; the platform issues the logistics transport capacity group purchasing information of the large batch of cargos to a platform website and pushes the logistics transport capacity group purchasing information to a car owner. According to the invention, the logistics electroniccommerce platform receives the request that the cargo owner transports the large batch of cargos, generates logistics transport group capacity purchasing information according to the request of the cargo owner in transporting the large batch of cargos, issues the logistics transport capacity group purchasing information of the large batch of cargos to the platform website and pushes the logisticstransport capacity group purchasing information to the car owner. The method and system provided by the invention solve a problem that the owner of a large batch of cargo resources cannot find the vehicle easily and the car owner collects the cargos, improve the logistics transportation efficiency, reduces the time cost of the car owner, and promotes the effective integration and optimized configuration of the logistics resources.

The present invention is an automated and online process for individual members of a group to perform online purchases under one group account. This method creates an account for the group with a particular merchant. The method uses purchaser information to generate a unique security key for the particular group purchase. The purchaser information includes a set of parameters that will govern a valid order by a group member. When a member of the group desires to make a purchase under the group account, that purchaser would use the key to gain access to the purchasing program. After the user has completed his/her menu selections, the purchaser would submit the order. The order is validated based on purchase criteria provided at the initiation of the account. After order validation, the order would be entered into a database containing the purchaser's account information. This process would also update the purchaser account information.

The invention discloses a commodity transaction method and device. The method comprises the following steps of: setting at least one price gradient value according to an inventory of a commodity, wherein the price gradient value is a commodity price corresponding to the inventory; monitoring whether a first user purchases the commodity or not; and if the first user purchases the commodity, generating commodity transaction information. According to the method and device, a manner of setting price gradient values according to inventories of commodities is adopted, and the commodities are purchased by users according to the price gradient values, so that the aim of improving the group purchasing success efficiency is achieved and the problem that the group purchasing efficiency is low in correlation technique is solved.

In a network where a person who wants to sell an estate is connected to an estate purchase broker so that data communication can be performed, there is provided a database of information on estates to be sold which are provided by a person who wants to sell an estate, an estate purchase broker, and the like. An estate group purchasing matching system includes search condition setting means for analyzing a purchase condition described by a person who wants to purchase an estate and his/her attribute information and setting a condition for searching a person who roughly corresponds to it. In the search condition set by this search condition setting means, a priority degree of condition is quantified for each of the items and a search condition having a certain width is set for each item value. Thus, it is possible to extract a plurality of registered candidates who want to purchase an estate from the database containing estate purchase desirer information connected to the network by estate purchase desirer brief extraction means.

Method pertains to a system of entities that make purchases and interact either synchronously or asynchronously into a group that exercises collective buying power. It provides a process whereby individual entities can enter the group at a specified price and receive a rebate as new entities enter the group. The method is useful because of its transparency, sustainability, and ability to provide economic benefits equitably to all stakeholders and incentives to entities in the group to market the group and recruit individuals to join the group. Move over, the structure of the system improves upon the standard coupon scheme as well as the bid and offer system.