US 2012/0259691 A1 · MULTI-SELLER SALES SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTIPLE SALES PORTALS AND PROMOTION SYSTEMS

Abstract

A system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption provides customers making online purchases to automatically retrieve and redeem all applicable rebates and coupons during an online purchase. Purchase orders from customers are selectively fulfilled and products are shipped to the customers either by the system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption or by other merchant or manufacturer environments. The system makes purchases from merchants or manufacturers using all applicable coupons and rebates and then sells the products to the customers, passing the savings to them. The system automatically retrieves coupons and rebates for items in a shopping cart during the activity of an online purchase at an electronic mall or an online merchant site and to retrieve manufacturer's and merchant's coupons prior to an online purchasing activity for subsequent submission to an online merchant during a subsequent purchasing activity.

Claims29

Dependent claims

A sales support portal supporting a plurality of sales portals, the sales support portal comprising:

a first storage structure that stores a plurality of first content, the plurality of first content representing advertisements that include sales price information relating to a first plurality of sales offerings of at least a first group of the plurality of sales portals;
a second storage structure that stores a plurality of second content, each of the plurality of second content representing a promotion that includes price reduction information relating to a second plurality of sales offerings of at least a second group of the plurality of sales portals;
the first storage structure and the second storage structure both maintains linkages with the plurality of sales portals to support vectoring of buyer computers;
and
a buyer web page service that delivers web page data that includes selections from both the plurality of first content and the plurality of second content.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/527,362Filed 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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