Facilitating Purchase of Excess Items
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsDavid C. Yanacek, Gustavo Eduardo Lopez, Steven T. Rabuchin, Michael M. George, Brandon H. Yarbrough
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Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating the purchase of excess items. In one embodiment, customer information and inventory data are retrieved from a merchant client. A determination is made on whether excess items exist. A list of target purchasers is generated based on data associated with a user account, and offers are generated and sent by electronic communication to the list of target purchasers.
Claims20
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying at least one program executable in a computing device, the at least one program comprising:
- code that identifies a purchaser of a ticket for an event;
- code that obtains a plurality of contacts associated with the purchaser, the plurality of contacts being obtained from a third party social networking site;
- code that determines at least one target purchaser based at least in part on the plurality of contacts;
- and
- code that transmits a respective offer to the at least one target purchaser, the offer being for purchasing from an excess supply of tickets associated with the event through an electronic commerce system.
A method, comprising:
- determining, by at least one computing device, a plurality of initial purchasers of an item;
- obtaining, by the at least one computing device, a plurality of contacts associated with the plurality of initial purchasers, the plurality of contacts being obtained from a third party social networking site;
- determining, by the at least one computing device, a plurality of target purchasers based at least in part on the plurality of contacts;
- and
- generating, by the at least one computing device, an offer listing for purchasing from an excess inventory of the item.
A system, comprising:
- at least one computing device;
- and
- an item recommendation application executable in the at least one computing device, the item recommendation application comprising:
- logic that determines a purchaser of an item;
- logic that obtains a plurality of contacts associated with the purchaser, the plurality of contacts obtained from a third party social networking site;
- logic that determines a target purchaser for purchasing from an excess inventory of the item based at least in part on the plurality of contacts;
- and
- logic that provides an offer listing to the target purchaser, the offer listing providing a recommendation referencing the excess inventory of the item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.