US 2012/0259677 A1 · ON-LINE SALES CHAIN MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORTING PRODUCT INVENTORY TRACKING

Abstract

A sales system supports sales between a plurality of buyers and a plurality of sellers in a communication network. A sales server has a seller interface used by both a first seller and a second seller respectively via a first seller's computer and a second seller's computer to register availability for sale of a first product and a second product. The sales server, based upon received buyer input from an identified buyer via a buyer computer that includes buyer orders for the first product and the second product dispenses a first sales order to the first seller's computer for the first product and a second sales order to the second seller's computer for the second product. The sales server provides instructions to the first seller's computer for fulfillment of the first sales order and to the second sales computer for the fulfillment of the second sales order.

Claims41

Dependent claims

A chain management infrastructure that via an Internet supports a plurality of buyer computers, a plurality of product source systems and a plurality of sales portals, each of the plurality of product source systems and each of the plurality of sales portals having databases that store product inventory information, the chain management infrastructure comprising:

a competitive advertising service, coupled with each of the plurality of product source systems and each of the plurality of sales portals via the Internet, that receives a plurality of competing sales related offers;
a buyer interfacing service that delivers first offers selected from the plurality of competing sales related offers to support visual presentations on the plurality of buyer computers;
and
an inventory management service that interacts with each of the plurality of sales portals and each of the plurality of product source systems to facilitate inventory control, the inventory control supporting the selection of the first offers of the plurality of competing sales related offers.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/527,427Filed 19 Jun 2012

Priority

19 Apr 1999

Published

11 Oct 2012

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification24 codes

G06Q 40/03
Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes: credit; Loans; Processing thereof
G06Q 20/20
Payment architectures: point-of-sale [POS] network systems
G06Q 30/02
Commerce: marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
G06Q 30/0207
Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising: discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates

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