Systems and methods for shopping in an electronic commerce environment
AssigneeEtsy, Inc.
InventorRobert Kalin
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Abstract
A method of shopping within an electronic commerce environment includes enabling a first user of a plurality of users to add one or more items to a virtual shopping cart of the first user that is maintained by a server computer system, generating, by the server computer system, statistical data related to the one or more items, and providing the statistical data to the first user in a web page that is generated by the server computer system. The statistical data includes a total quantity of at least one of the one or more items that are contained in the virtual shopping carts of all of the plurality of users.
Claims21
A method of shopping within an electronic commerce environment, the method comprising acts of:
- enabling a first user of a plurality of users of the electronic commerce environment to add one or more items to a virtual shopping cart of the first user that is maintained by a server computer system;
- generating, by the server computer system, statistical data related to the one or more items, the statistical data including a non-zero sum total quantity of at least one of the one or more items that are contained in virtual shopping carts of the plurality of users of the electronic commerce environment other than the first user;
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- providing the statistical data including the non-zero sum total quantity of the at least one of the one or more items that are contained in the virtual shopping carts of the plurality of users of the electronic commerce environment other than the first user to the first user in a single web page that is generated by the server computer system.
An electronic commerce system, comprising:
- a computer server comprising:
- a virtual shopping cart component configured to enable a first user of a plurality of users of the electronic commerce system to add one or more items to a virtual shopping cart of the first user;
- and
- a statistical data component configured to:
- generate statistical data related to the one or more items, the statistical data including a non-zero sum total quantity of at least one of the one or more items that are contained in virtual shopping carts of the plurality of users of the electronic commerce system other than the first user;
- and
- provide the statistical data to the first user in a single web page that is generated by the electronic commerce system.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for shopping within an electronic commerce website, the computer-executable instructions when executed by a computer causing the computer to perform a method comprising acts of:
- enabling a first user of a plurality of users of the electronic commerce website to add one or more items to a virtual shopping cart of the first user that is maintained by a server computer system;
- generating, by the server computer system, statistical data related to the one or more items, the statistical data including a non-zero sum total quantity of at least one of the one or more items that are contained in virtual shopping carts of the plurality of users of the electronic commerce website other than the first user;
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- providing the statistical data to the first user of the electronic commerce website in a single web page that is generated by the server computer system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.