System and method for subscription-based delivery service
AssigneeShoprunner, Inc.
InventorsMichael Golden, Michael Rubin
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Abstract
A subscription-based discounted delivery service that allows consumers to make purchases from multiple merchants through multiple sales channels. User preference information is stored by the service provider and provided to any of the multiple merchants from whom the user seeks to make a purchase, from the product detail page of such merchant, to be delivered using the discounted delivery service.
Claims38
A system comprising:
- memory operable to store at least one program;
- and
- at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory, in which the at least one program, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to:
- access and process data received from one of a plurality of merchants, said data comprising an order to purchase from the merchant by a user one or more products pursuant to a service that provides the user with a discounted delivery cost on products purchased by the user from any of the plurality of merchants, at least some of the plurality of merchants offering products for sale by way of a plurality of different sales channels;
- and
- access and process data received from the one of the plurality of merchants, said data comprising information regarding delivery of the one or more products pursuant to the service.
A computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions which, when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:
- accessing and processing data received from one of a plurality of merchants, said data comprising an order to purchase from the merchant by a user one or more products pursuant to a service that provides the user with a discounted delivery cost on products purchased by the user from any of the plurality of merchants, at least some of the plurality of merchants offering products for sale by way of a plurality of different sales channels;
- and
- accessing and processing data received from the one of the plurality of merchants, said data comprising information regarding delivery of the one or more products pursuant to the service.
A system comprising:
- memory operable to store at least one program;
- and
- at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory, in which the at least one program, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to:
- store user preference information comprising at least user address information, user payment information and delivery information describing a service associated with a discounted delivery cost of a product purchased by the user from any of a plurality of merchants;
- receive, from one of the plurality of merchants, data comprising an indication to purchase a product by the user initiated from a product detail page or a cart page displayed by the merchant for the product;
- and
- receive from the merchant data comprising an order to purchase the product from the merchant by the user and to delivery the product to the user using the service.
The system of claim 28 wherein the discounted delivery cost applies to an unlimited number of purchases made by the user during the time period.
A computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions which, when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:
- store user preference information comprising at least user address information, user payment information and delivery information describing a service associated with a discounted delivery cost of a product purchased by the user from any of a plurality of merchants;
- receive, from one of the plurality of merchants, data comprising an indication to purchase a product by the user initiated from a product detail page or a cart page displayed by the merchant for the product;
- and
- receive from the merchant data comprising an order to purchase the product from the merchant by the user and to delivery the product to the user using the service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.