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US 2014/0344104 A1Published application
Predictive Shipping Method for E-Commerce Site
AssigneeMedia Queue, LLC
InventorJohn Nicholas Gross
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Abstract
A delivery mechanism uses a recommender and prediction system to determine if a customer may want an item before he/she specifically requests such. Physical inventory ordered from an e-commerce site is thus preemptively distributed and maintained in transit.
Claims20
An automated method of delivering items to a customer of an e-commerce website comprising the steps of:
- delivering a first item to the customer in response to a specific request by the customer for such first item to a website computing system;
- wherein said first item is an article shipped by the e-commerce website to the first customer;
- generating a prediction with a recommender system for a second item which is likely to be of interest to said customer, said prediction being based at least in part on said customer's prior item selections;
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- distributing said second item to the first customer based on said prediction and prior to an explicit request by the first customer for said second item;
- wherein delivery of said second item from inventory of the e-commerce site is initiated in advance of said first customer requesting such item from the e-commerce website.
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An automated method of delivering items to a customer of an e-commerce website comprising the steps of:
- maintaining a current request list of a set of items selected by a first customer at the e-commerce website;
- delivering a first item to the customer from said set of items in response to a specific request by the customer for such first item to a website computing system;
- wherein said first item is an article shipped by the e-commerce website to the first customer and is associated with a charge paid by the first customer;
- generating a prediction with a recommender system for a second item which is likely to be of interest to said first customer, said prediction being based at least in part on said first customer's prior item selections and said current request list maintained for said first customer;
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- shipping said second item to the first customer based on said prediction and prior to an explicit request by the first customer for said second item to be shipped;
- wherein delivery of said second item from inventory of the e-commerce site is initiated in advance of said first customer requesting such item to be shipped from the e-commerce website;
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- further wherein said second item is shipped and delivered without any charge to said first customer as a promotional item.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.