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US 11,367,129 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for associating menu information
OwnerHoward W. Lutnickinventor
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Abstract
Methods and Apparatus related to generating representations of information. The information may include menu information for merchants such as restaurants. Referring to menus, methods may include receiving potential information for a first menu, and receiving indications of associations of the information with the first menu and/or any number of additional menus. Information and/or associations may later be updated by a desired set of users.
Claims14
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor configured to control:
- generating first listing information for a first merchant based on item information received, over a communication network, from the first merchant;
- in response to receiving the item information, associating the first listing information with a first listing of items of the first merchant;
- transmitting a first representation of the first listing of items that includes the first listing information over the communication network to a first computing device of a first user of a referral or delivery service;
- receiving, over the communication network, from the first computing device of the first user of the referral or delivery service, an indication to associate the first listing information with a second listing of items of a second merchant;
- in response to receiving the indication, associating the first listing information with the second listing of items;
- receiving an edit to the first listing information from a second computing device of a second user of the referral or delivery service, wherein the edit is a change to the first listing information;
- in response to receiving the edit, adjusting the first listing information to include the edit in the first listing of items and maintain the first listing information without the edit in the second listing of items;
- transmitting a second representation of the first listing of items that includes the first listing information and the edit over the communication network to a third computing device of a third user of the referral or delivery service after receiving the edit;
- and
- receiving, from the third computing device over the communication network, a selection by the third user of selected items from the first listing of items for delivery from the first merchant;
- wherein the third user is not any of the first user and the second user, and each of the first user and the second user includes a customer of the referral or delivery service.
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A method comprising:
- controlling, by at least one processor:
- generating first listing information for a first merchant based on item information received, over a communication network, from the first merchant;
- in response to receiving the item information, associating the first listing information with a first listing of items of the first merchant;
- transmitting a first representation of the first listing of items that includes the first listing information over the communication network to a first computing device of a first user of a referral or delivery service;
- receiving over the communication network, from the first computing device of the first user of the referral or delivery service, an indication that the first listing information is associated with a second listing of items of a second merchant;
- in response to receiving the indication, associating the first listing information with the second listing of items;
- receiving an edit to the first listing information from a second computing device of a second user of the referral or delivery service, wherein the edit is a change to the first listing information;
- in response to receiving the edit, adjusting the first listing information to include the edit in the first listing of items and maintain the first listing information without the edit in the second listing of items;
- transmitting a second representation of the first listing of items that includes the first listing information and the edit over the communication network to a third computing device of a third user of the referral or delivery service after receiving the edit;
- and
- receiving, from the third computing device over the communication network, a selection by the third user of selected items from the first listing of items for delivery from the first merchant;
- wherein the third user is not any of the first user and the second user, and each of the first user and the second user includes a customer of the referral or delivery service.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.