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US 2015/0088655 A1Published application
Social media product reservation
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsChase Louis Taylor, Andrew Shih, Seth Yonker, Bailey Eckert, Evan Baechler
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Abstract
Systems and methods for reserving products that have limited availability are provided. A social networking service may be used to announce the availability of reservations for limited availability products. The announcements may be at times unknown to consumers. Consumers may respond to the announcements via the social networking service and create virtual lines for the limited availability products.
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A method comprising:
- (a) broadcasting a message to a plurality of consumers during a previously announced time period and at a specific time within the time period that is unknown to the plurality of consumers wherein the message announces an availability of reservation requests for a product;
- (b) receiving from at least one or more consumers in the plurality of consumers reservation requests in response to receipt of the message by the consumers;
- (c) processing the reservation requests at a computer device in a predetermined order to determine whether to issue respective product reservations;
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- (d) issuing a product reservation to the at least one or more consumers in response to a determination to issue the product reservation.
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A method comprising:
- (a) broadcasting a message to a plurality of electronic devices during a previously announced time period and at a specific time within the time period that is unknown to a plurality of users wherein the message announces an availability of reservation requests for a product;
- (b) receiving from at least a portion of the electronic devices, electronic reservation requests in response to receipt of the message at the electronic devices;
- (c) processing the electronic reservation requests at a computer device of a product reservation platform in the order received to determine whether to issue respective product reservations;
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- (d) issuing a product reservation to an electronic device associated with a specific user in response to a determination to issue a product reservation to the user.
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A product reservation system comprising:
- a product reservation campaign module that initiates a broadcast of a message to a plurality of consumers during a previously announced time period and at a specific time within the time period that is unknown to the plurality of consumers wherein the message announces an availability of reservation requests for a product;
- a reservation request collection module that receives reservation requests from at least some of the consumers in response to receipt of the message by the consumers;
- a reservation request processing module that processes the reservation requests to determine whether to issue respective product reservations;
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- wherein the reservation campaign module issues a product reservation to one of the consumers in response to a determination to issue the product reservation to the consumer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.