Hosted demand aggregation
AssigneeeWinWin, Inc.
InventorGregory J. Mesaros
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Abstract
The demand aggregation system includes deal room sponsored by a third party host. The third party host facilitates commercial transactions between a plurality of buyers and at least one seller. In exchange for sponsorship of such a deal room, the third party host can receive an incentive such as a percentage of sales, seller discount or the like. Furthermore, mechanisms are provided to aid discovery of sellers and/or offers that can be included in a group buying event for a buying group. The buying group receives a greater discount as the total purchase amount in the group buying event increases.
Claims35
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon computer executable instructions, the instructions being executable by a processor to perform a method for:
- verifying resource availability data associated with a merchant, wherein the resource availability data indicates real time spare capacity of a product or service provided by the merchant;
- determining a suitable recipient of an advertisement for the product or service with spare capacity based upon examination of a set of buyer profiles;
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- providing an advertisement in real time to the suitable recipient, wherein the advertisement includes an offer for the product or service with spare capacity.
A computer-implement method, the method comprising:
- executing computer readable instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to verify resource availability data associated with a merchant, the resource availability data indicating real time spare capacity of a product or service provided by the merchant;
- executing computer readable instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to examine a set of buyer profiles for identifying a suitable recipient of an advertisement for the product or service with spare capacity;
- executing computer readable instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to provide the advertisement in real time to the suitable recipient, the advertisement including an offer for the product or service with spare capacity.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon computer executable instructions, the instructions being executable by a processor to perform a method for:
- verifying availability data associated with a merchant, wherein the resource availability data indicates current excess capacity of a product or service offered by the merchant;
- examining a set of buyer profiles;
- determining an eligible recipient of an offer for the product or service with current excess capacity based upon the examined set of buyer profiles;
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- delivering an offer based upon the resource availability data, the offer provided in real time to the eligible recipient, and wherein the offer includes a price for the product or service with current excess capacity that differs from a market price otherwise offered by the merchant for the product or service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.