Flexible magazine management service
AssigneeTime Inc.
InventorsMilton J. Block, Steven M. Sachs
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Abstract
A method for managing a magazine subscription management service is disclosed. A magazine package is associated with a consumer, wherein the package includes a price based on a number of magazines in the package. Selections for the number of magazines are received from a consumer, each selected magazine having a corresponding publication frequency including a number of issues and a period for delivery. Distribution of issues of each of the selected magazines according to the corresponding publication frequency is enabled.
Claims15
A method for managing a magazine subscription management service, comprising:
- associating a magazine package with a user, wherein the package includes a price based on a number of magazines in the package;
- receiving selections for the number of magazines from the user, each selected magazine having a corresponding publication frequency including a number of issues and a period for delivery;
- enabling distribution of issues of each of the selected magazines according to the corresponding publication frequency;
- providing an order-by date and a corresponding estimated delivery date for an issue of one of the magazines selected by the user, and
- when the user selects the issue by the order-by date, enabling delivery of the issue to the user on or about the estimated delivery date.
A method for managing a magazine subscription management service, comprising:
- associating a magazine package with a user, wherein the package includes a price based on a number of magazines in the package;
- receiving selections for the number of magazines from the user, each selected magazine having a corresponding publication frequency including a number of issues and a period for delivery;
- allowing the user to select a subset of the number of issues in the period for delivery, and
- enabling distribution of the selected subset of issues of each of the selected magazines according to the corresponding publication frequency.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.