US 2020/0051145 A1 · Systems and Method for Automated Purchase and Receipt of Consumer Motor Fuels for Periods in the Future

Abstract

A computerized system for transacting the purchase and sale of consumer motor fuels between motor fuel merchants and retail consumers through software on a mobile or desktop connected device for periods in the future through the simultaneous execution of multi-party, multi-layered contingent transactions and pricing algorithms to ensure that all inter-related motor fuel merchant transactions are simultaneously transacted upon a retail consumer purchase execution. Motor fuels include refined products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, renewable fuels (e.g. ethanol, biodiesel), natural gas (including liquefied natural gas), jet fuel and electricity.

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Dependent claims

A system for selling motor fuel, comprising:

a computerized network configured to facilitate motor fuel transactions amongst participating motor fuel merchants, wherein the network is further configured to provide one or more offers to sell a motor fuel for pick up by a consumer at a specified pick up location during a specified period of time;
and
an application for use by the consumer, wherein the application is configured:
(a) to present the offers to the consumer, (b) to enable the consumer to select at least one of the offers, (c) to enable the consumer to purchase a quantity of the motor fuel from the selected offer, and (d) to validate the pickup of any portion of the purchased quantity of the motor fuel at the specified location during the specified period of time for the selected offer.

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Systems and Method for Automated Purchase and Receipt of Consumer Motor Fuels for Periods in the Future

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Systems and Method for Automated Purchase and Receipt of Consumer Motor Fuels for Periods in the Future

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