System, Method and Apparatus for Using Points in an Online Marketplace
OwnerVictor Kulishinventor
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Abstract
System, method, and apparatus are provide for using points in an online marketplace. The invention provides for storing, by at least one processor, a user's history of past transactions as sharing points and borrowing points, providing a user interface for users to create an online transaction with an established point value for the transaction, wherein the transaction involves a user sharing an item or service and another user receiving an item or service, adding the transaction point value to a borrowing or receiving user's borrowing points total, and calculating a point value and adding it to a sharing or providing user's sharing points total.
Claims8
A computer-implemented method:
- Storing, by at least one processor, a user's history of past transactions as sharing points and borrowing points;
- Providing a user interface for users to create an online transaction with an established point value for the transaction, wherein the transaction involves a user sharing an item or service and another user receiving an item or service;
- Adding, by at least one processor, the transaction point value to a borrowing or receiving user's borrowing points total;
- Calculating, by at least one processor, a point value and adding it to a sharing or providing user's sharing points total.
A system comprising:
- A database for a user's history of past transactions as sharing points and borrowing points;
- A user interface for users to create an online transaction with an established point value for the transaction, wherein the transaction involves a user sharing an item or service and another user receiving an item or service;
- A processor that adds the transaction point value from a borrowing or receiving user's borrowing points total and calculates and adds a point value to a sharing or providing user's sharing points total.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.