Method and system for implementing a co-buy order capture mechanism
AssigneeOracle International Corporation
InventorChristian F. RAUH
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Abstract
Disclosed is an improved approach to implement a shopping interface that includes a co-buy purchase option. The co-buy mechanism permits any purchase decision by a consumer to be implemented as a group purchase. The co-buy mechanism provides functionality to automatically implement sharing of the purchase prices by the participants to the group purchase.
Claims28
A computer implemented method implemented with a processor for co-buy, comprising:
- receiving an instruction to implement co-buy purchase for an order on a shopping system, wherein the co-buy purchase corresponds to a purchase order that is collectively made by a plurality of consumers;
- identifying multiple participants for the co-buy purchase, wherein an invitation is sent to the multiple participants for the co-buy purchase;
- determining whether buying conditions for the co-buy purchase is satisfied, determined at least in part by checking for responses from the multiple participants that agree or refuse to participate in the co-buy purchase;
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- completing the co-buy purchase if the buying conditions are satisfied, wherein payment is automatically made by the participants in the co-buy purchase.
A computer program product embodied on a computer usable medium, the computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor causes the processor to execute a method for implementing a co-buy purchase, the method comprising:
- receiving an instruction to implement co-buy purchase for an order on a shopping system, wherein the co-buy purchase corresponds to a purchase order that is collectively made by a plurality of consumers;
- identifying multiple participants for the co-buy purchase, wherein an invitation is sent to the multiple participants for the co-buy purchase;
- determining whether buying conditions for the co-buy purchase is satisfied, determined at least in part by checking for responses from the multiple participants that agree or refuse to participate in the co-buy purchase;
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- completing the co-buy purchase if the buying conditions are satisfied, wherein payment is automatically made by the participants in the co-buy purchase.
A system for implementing a co-buy purchase, comprising:
- a processor;
- a co-buy purchase mechanism comprising computer code executed using the processor, in which the computer code implements a co-buy purchase for an order on a shopping system, wherein the co-buy purchase corresponds to a purchase order that is collectively made by a plurality of consumers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.