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AssigneePeeractive, Inc.
InventorsDavid Stein, Nicholas Rosenthal, Robert Arbittier, Nir Golan
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The number of users viewing a given variable directly affects the rate of change and/or outcome of said variable. In the case of eCommerce, pricing of products and/or services is based upon a user accessing a website on which products and/or services are for sale. An initial price indicia associator associates initial price indicia with the products and/or services files. The initial pricing can be based upon historical indicia or the engine itself. Thereafter, a price indicia adjuster adjusts the pricing responsive to user access of the website or related website. A user interface meter shown on the website indicates to potential buyers how much interest there is in the product and/or service being sold so that peer activity is exhibited to potential buyers to encourage sales and impulsive buying behavior. Pricing is dynamic and adjusts in real-time at a rate determined by the amount of users accessing the website.
A computer implemented online system using a server for a website and using the internet for selling, distributing, marketing, providing, and/or creating demand for products and/or services comprises;
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein said first database is made viewable on the website, and accessing or viewing the website by a user through an internet communication acts to activate the indicia adjuster, and the indicia is a price indicia.
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein the action by a user is not a positive step to change pricing for products and/or services.
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An online system as claimed in claim 33 including a user interface on the website whereby access to the website provides the user with an indication of the extent to which others are selectively viewing, purchasing, surfing or otherwise interacting on the website, and thereby provides a measure of peer pressure on the user, and wherein the interface includes a scaling meter indicator.
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An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein the system is for an auction, and the auction is a reverse auction.
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein the initial indicia with which said initial indicia associator associates with the products and/or services files is directly related, at least in a stepwise manner, with an historical demand.
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein said indicia adjuster interactively adjusts the adjusted indicia associated with each of the products and/or services with files in the first database.
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein the indications of perceived demand for the indicia adjuster permit the adjustment to the indicia adjuster at least at successive intervals, dynamically substantially in real time in response to the indications of the perceived demand, and wherein said indicia adjuster further successively forms the adjusted indicia responsive to the indications of the perceived demand received at the at least the successive intervals.
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein the adjusted indicia formed by said indicia adjuster incrementally changes values of the adjusted indicia in response to perceived demand.
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein the adjustment accelerates or decelerates in response to the number of users accessing the site over a predetermined time period.
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An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein a manager server calculates peer pressure based on a formula, and wherein an administrator sets the number of browsers viewing a slot or site, and wherein there can be peer pressure between maximum peer pressure and zero peer pressure.
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein number of browsers view a slot or site, and based on the number of browsers currently viewing a slot or site (BrsrCount), peer pressure is calculated as follows:
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein the system includes a peer pressure meter, the peer pressure meter selectively having different color ranges, and the system permits an administrator to specify the minimum and maximum number of browsers for each color range in the peer pressure meter for a slot or a site.
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein an administrator can, for a product, set a starting price, an ending price, a rate of price change when there is no peer pressure (0) and a rate of price change when there is maximum peer pressure (1).
An online system as claimed in claim 33 including comprising an element which applies the system on a plurality of websites, including publisher/content sites, selectively as a banner ad and selectively permitting web traffic aggregation in real-time across sites where the online system is being used/published.
An online system as claimed in claim 33 including comprising an element which applies applying a real-time messaging, including displaying a number of alerts based on predetermined thresholds, status messages, or targeted messages to users.
An online system as claimed in claim 33 wherein the rate at which the price changes can be higher or lower based on more or fewer users on a site, selectively at least one of a 1) Higher rate of change based on more users, 2) Higher rate of change based on fewer users, 3) Lower rate of change based on more users, or 4) Lower rate of change based on less fewer users.
A computer implemented online system using a server for a website and using the internet for selling, distributing, marketing, providing, and/or creating demand for products and/or services comprises:
A computer implemented online system using a server for a website and using the internet for selling, distributing, marketing, providing, and/or creating demand for products and/or services comprises:
A computer implemented online system using a server for a website and using the internet for selling, distributing, marketing, providing, and/or creating demand for products and/or services comprises:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.