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US 2011/0258029 A1Published application
Merchant interaction and trial periods
AssigneeCfph, LLC
InventorHoward W. Lutnick
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Abstract
Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to the merchant, requesting an acceptance of a membership status from the merchant, and receiving an indication of the payment for the first order.
Claims30
A method comprising:
- enabling, by a computer system, a trial mode of a service for a merchant, in which the selected merchant did not request the trial mode of the service;
- facilitating, by the computer system, provision of at least one of a good and a service offered by the merchant to fulfill at least part of an order for the at least one of the good and the service;
- and
- allocating, by the computer system, at least a part of a payment for the order to the merchant based on a determination of whether the trial mode if enabled for the merchant.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon at least one instruction that when executed by a computing device enables the computing device to:
- enable a trial mode of a service for a merchant, in which the selected merchant did not request the trial mode of the service;
- facilitate provision of at least one of a good and a service offered by the merchant to fulfill at least part of an order for the at least one of the good and the service;
- and
- allocate at least a part of a payment for the order to the merchant based on a determination of whether the trial mode if enabled for the merchant.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a means for enabling a trial mode of a service for a merchant, in which the selected merchant did not request the trial mode of the service;
- a means for facilitating provision of at least one of a good and a service offered by the merchant to fulfill at least part of an order for the at least one of the good and the service;
- and
- a means for allocating at least a part of a payment for the order to the merchant based on a determination of whether the trial mode if enabled for the merchant.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.