System and method for selling a product through an adaptable purchase interface
AssigneeRibbon Payments, Inc.
InventorHany Rashwan
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Abstract
A system and method for providing online commerce that includes at an online commerce platform, configuring a product profile for selling; providing a URI link of the online commerce platform that is unique to the product profile; at the online commerce platform, receiving an request to the link; identifying a referral channel of the request; conditionally selecting a product purchase interface mode from a set of interface modes at least in part based on the referral channel; transmitting a response of the selected product purchase interface mode in reply to the request; and at the purchase interface, completing a purchase from the product purchase interface.
Claims30
A method for providing online commerce comprising:
- at an online commerce platform, configuring a product profile for selling;
- providing a URI link of the online commerce platform that is unique to the product profile;
- at the online commerce platform, receiving an request to the link;
- identifying a referral channel of the request;
- conditionally selecting a product purchase interface mode from a set of interface modes at least in part based on the referral channel;
- transmitting a response of the selected product purchase interface mode in reply to the request;
- and
- at the purchase interface, completing a purchase from the product purchase interface.
A method for providing shopping interface in an outside channel comprising:
- providing a URI link of the online commerce platform that is unique to a product profile;
- at the online commerce platform, receiving a request to the link from a first outside channel;
- generating a product purchase interface response that comprises meta data tags that specify an embeddable purchase interface URI;
- transmitting the product purchase interface response in reply to the request;
- transmitting an embeddable purchase interface in reply to a second request of the first outside channel, wherein the embeddable purchase interface is configured for display within the content of the first outside channel;
- and
- at the embeddable purchase interface, completing a purchase of the product.
A method for providing multiple shopping interfaces comprising:
- at an online commerce platform, configuring a product profile for selling;
- assigning a unique product URI link to the product profile;
- providing sharing interface with sharing options of a set of online channels, which includes at least a first online channel and a second online channel,
- transmitting at least the product URI link in a publication request to at least one of the online channels;
- receiving an HTTP request to the link;
- identifying a referral channel of the HTTP request;
- if the referral channel is a first online channel, redirecting to a product purchase interface implemented within an account on the referring channel in a response to the HTTP request;
- if the referral channel is the second online channel, responding with a product purchase interface on a page of the online commerce platform in response to the HTTP request, wherein the product purchase interface is customized according to a template of the second online channel;
- if the referral channel is not in the set of online channels, responding with a product purchase interface on a page of the online commerce platform in response to the HTTP request, wherein the product purchase interface is formatted according to a default template;
- and
- completing a purchase from the product purchase interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.