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US 2012/0259725 A1Published application
System and Method for Selling Products and Services via a Network of at Least Three Computer Systems
AssigneeZoosk, Inc.
InventorsDoug H. Wehmeier, Alexander F. Mehr, Shayan G. Zadeh
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Abstract
A system and method allows one or more users to purchase an offering of goods or services using at least three computer systems, by one user making a proposal for the two to jointly consume the offering, and the other user accepting the proposal.
Claims21
A method of selling one of a plurality of offers to at least a first user of a web site that assists in matching users of the web site to one another, the method comprising:
- receiving:
- information about the plurality of offers of a product or service that users may share, including a price of each of the plurality of offers;
- an identifier of the first user and each of the at least one second user;
- and
- an identifier of the one of the plurality of offers that the first user will propose sharing with at least one of the at least one second user whose identifier is received;
- and
- wherein at least one of said identifiers is received from the first user;
- providing via a server computer system that is used to communicate with the first user and at least one second user, at least one proposal from the first user to each of the at least one second user to share in consumption of the product or participation in receiving the service that is the subject of the one of the plurality of offers at a time after any acceptance of the proposal;
- receiving, at the server computer system, from at least one of the at least one second user, an acceptance of the proposal received by said second user;
- and
- responsive to the acceptance received at the server computer system, charging at least one of the users in a group comprising the first user and the second user from which the acceptance was received, the price for the one of the plurality of offers.
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A system for selling one of a plurality of offers to at least a first user of a web site that assists in matching users of the web site to one another, the system comprising:
- a deal information manager having an input for receiving information about the plurality of offers of a product or service that users may share, including a price of each of the plurality of offers, the deal information manager for providing at an output the information received at the deal information manager input;
- a proposal manager having an input for receiving:
- an identifier of the first user and each of the at least one second user;
- an identifier of the one of the plurality of offers of a product or service that the first user will propose sharing with at least one of the at least one second user whose identifier is received;
- and
- wherein:
- at least one of said identifiers is received from the first user;
- and
- the proposal manager input is additionally coupled to the deal information manager output for receiving at least some of the information about the one of the plurality of offers;
- the proposal manager for providing via an output, to each of the at least one second users, the information about the one of the plurality of offers and an identifier of the first user in the form of a proposal to share one of the plurality of offers with the first user after the proposal is accepted;
- an acceptance manager having an input for receiving from at least one of the at least one second user, an acceptance of the proposal received by said second user, the acceptance manager input additionally coupled to the deal information manager output for receiving a price of the one of the plurality of offers, the acceptance manager for, responsive to the acceptance received at the server computer system, charging via an output at least one of the users in a group comprising the first user and the second user from which the acceptance was received, the price for the one of the plurality of offers.
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A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for selling one of a plurality of offers to at least a first user of a web site that assists in matching users of the web site to one another, the computer program product comprising computer readable program code devices configured to cause a computer system to:
- receive:
- information about the plurality of offers of a product or service that users may share, including a price of each of the plurality of offers;
- an identifier of the first user and each of the at least one second user;
- and
- an identifier of the one of the plurality of offers that the first user will propose sharing with at least one of the at least one second user whose identifier is received;
- and
- wherein at least one of said identifiers is received from the first user;
- provide via a server computer system that is used to communicate with the first user and at least one second user, at least one proposal from the first user to each of the at least one second user to share in consumption of the product or participation in receiving the service that is the subject of the one of the plurality of offers at a time after any acceptance of the proposal;
- receive, at the server computer system, from at least one of the at least one second user, an acceptance of the proposal received by said second user;
- and
- responsive to the acceptance received at the server computer system, charge at least one of the users in a group comprising the first user and the second user from which the acceptance was received, the price for the one of the plurality of offers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.