Systems and methods for customer valuation and merchant bidding
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorsJing-Ta Chow, Michael Macasek
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Abstract
A mediator system, which serves as a conduit between a customer and merchants, includes customer profile data. The mediator system analyzes the customer profile data, and assigns an indication to a customer represented by the customer profile data. The mediator system then provides the indication to the merchants, and then receives bids from the merchants. The bids are for establishing a connection between the merchants and the customer. The mediator system provides to a portion of the merchants, based on the bids, a connection to the customer.
Claims20
A method performed by hardware processing circuitry, comprising:
- identifying a location of a mobile device;
- identifying a plurality of merchants within a threshold distance of the location of the mobile device;
- determining different first valuations based on the location, each of the different first valuations determined based on a different respective one of the plurality of merchants and a distance of the mobile device relative to each of the plurality of merchants;
- providing the different first valuations to a first valuation's respective merchant:
- including a first merchant of the plurality of merchants;
- detecting a change in the location of the mobile device;
- determining different second valuations based on the changed location, each of the different second valuations further based on a different respective one of the plurality of merchants including the first merchant;
- and
- providing the different second valuations to a second valuation's respective merchant, including the first merchant of the plurality of merchants.
A system, comprising:
- hardware processing circuitry;
- one or more hardware memories storing instructions that when executed configure the hardware processing circuitry to perform operations comprising:
- identifying a location of a mobile device;
- identifying a plurality of merchants within a threshold distance of the location of the mobile device;
- determining different first valuations based on the location, each of the different first valuations determined based on a different respective one of the plurality of merchants and a distance of the mobile device relative to each of the plurality of merchants;
- providing the different first valuations to a first valuation's respective merchant, including a first merchant of the plurality of merchants;
- detecting a change in the location of the mobile device;
- determining different second valuations based on the changed location, each of the different second valuations further based on a different respective one of the plurality of merchants including the first merchant;
- and
- providing the different second valuations to a second valuation's respective merchant, including the first merchant of the plurality of merchants.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed configure hardware processing circuitry to perform operations comprising:
- identifying a location of a mobile device;
- identifying a plurality of merchants within a threshold distance of the location of the mobile device;
- determining different first valuations based on the location, each of the different first valuations determined based on a different respective one of the plurality of merchants and a distance of the mobile device relative to each of the plurality of merchants;
- providing the different first valuations to a first valuation's respective merchant, including a first merchant of the plurality of merchants;
- detecting a change in the location of the mobile device;
- determining different second valuations based on the changed location, each of the different second valuations further based on a different respective one of the plurality of merchants including the first merchant;
- and
- providing the different second valuations to a second valuation's respective merchant, including the first merchant of the plurality of merchants.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.