Sale of footwear by subscription
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorAlbert Shum
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Abstract
A user enters into a subscription to receive footwear having one or more specified performance characteristics. As the user finishes wearing one set of footwear, the user can obtain a replacement set of footwear that also will have one or more specified performance characteristics. The performance characteristics may be consistent for each set of footwear provided according to the subscription. Alternately, the footwear performance characteristics may vary over the life of the subscription. Thus, the footwear provider may periodically obtain biometric information describing the user's athletic activities or performance. The footwear provider then can tailor the performance characteristics of footwear provided under the subscription to match the user's athletic activities or performance.
Claims5
A system for purveying footwear, comprising:
- a subscription center computer configured to:
- provide a virtual interface accessible via a computer network for processing footwear subscription requests;
- process a footwear subscription request for a footwear subscription received via the computer network, wherein the footwear subscription request corresponds to one or more specified footwear performance characteristics, wherein the footwear subscription specifies a minimum amount of use of footwear for eligibility to receive replacement footwear having the specified footwear performance characteristics, and wherein the footwear subscription specifies a total number of new sets of replacement footwear to be provided as part of the footwear subscription,
- process a replacement request received via the computer network, wherein the replacement request is associated with the footwear subscription,
- approve the replacement request received via the computer network based on a determination that a use indication associated with previously provided footwear satisfies the minimum amount of use and based on a determination that less than the total number of new sets of replacement footwear have been provided, and
- submit an order for the replacement footwear having the specified footwear performance characteristics subsequent to the approving.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.