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US 2014/0279215 A1Published application
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable medium for converting one-time buyers of a product/service into subscribers
AssigneeOrderGroove, Inc.
InventorsGREG ALVO, Jorge Escobar
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Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media for the incorporation of a subscription ordering system into online merchants' websites. The subscription order systems build subscription offers, inject those offers into the merchants' websites, receive subscription offer acceptances, build the subscription orders, and send them to the merchants' websites.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving from a merchant website via a network interface an indication of a load status of a web page pertaining to a product from the merchant website;
- building a subscription offer pertaining to the product using a processor;
- sending the subscription offer to the merchant website via the network interface;
- receiving from the merchant website via the network interface an indication that a customer of the merchant website accepted the subscription offer;
- building a subscription order pertaining to the accepted subscription offer using the processor at a time indicated in the accepted subscription offer;
- and
- sending the subscription order pertaining to the accepted subscription offer to the merchant website via the network interface.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a network interface;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory in communication with the processor and storing processor executable instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to execute a method comprising:
- receiving from a merchant website via the network interface an indication of a load status of a web page pertaining to a product from the merchant website;
- building a subscription offer pertaining to the product using the processor;
- and
- sending the subscription offer to the merchant website via the network interface.
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A computer readable storage medium which is not a signal storing processor readable instructions which when executed by a processor cause the processor to execute a method comprising:
- receiving from a merchant website via a network interface an indication of a load status of a web page pertaining to a product from the merchant website;
- determining whether the subscription offer is available using the processor;
- building a subscription offer pertaining to the product using the processor;
- sending the subscription offer to the merchant website via the network interface;
- receiving from the merchant website via the network interface an indication that a customer of the merchant website accepted the subscription offer;
- building a subscription order pertaining to the accepted subscription offer using the processor at a time indicated in the accepted subscription offer;
- and
- sending the subscription order pertaining to the accepted subscription offer to the merchant website via the network interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.