US 9,792,597 B1Granted

Product catalog services

AssigneeSquare, Inc.

InventorsMark Jen, Shawn Morel

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Abstract

A product catalog service allows business entities to create and store product catalogs indicating products that are available from the business entities. A product catalog includes multiple product family definitions. Each product family definition specifies attribute names of a product family and, for each attribute name, a set of allowed attribute values. In order to specify a particular product variant, an entity may supply one of the allowed attribute values for each specified attribute name of the product. The product catalogs may be received from multiple business entities. Each product catalog may also be shared with multiple business entities. A merchant, for example, may select products from a product catalog to purchase from another merchant. When creating a product catalog, a business entity may reference product family definitions of other product catalogs.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A method of generating, by a first point-of-sale (POS) device, a first business entity product catalog, the method comprising:

receiving, by the first POS device of a first business entity, a second business entity product catalog published from a second POS device of a second business entity;
receiving, by the first POS device of the first business entity, a third business entity product catalog published from a third POS device of a third business entity;
selecting, at the first POS device of the first business entity, at least one product specification from the second business entity product catalog;
selecting, at the first POS device of the first business entity, at least one product specification from the third business entity product catalog;
generating, at the first POS device of the first business entity, the first business entity product catalog including:
(i) the at least one product specification selected from the second business entity product catalog, and
(ii) the at least one product specification selected from the third business entity product catalog;
and
transmitting, from the first POS device, the first business entity product catalog to a fourth POS device of a fourth business entity.

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A method of publishing, by a support services server, a first business entity product catalog of a first business entity, the method comprising:

receiving, at the support services server from a first point-of-sale (POS) device of the first business entity, the first business entity product catalog, wherein the first business entity product catalog comprises:
at least one product specification from a second business entity product catalog, and
at least one product specification from a third business entity product catalog;
storing the first business entity product catalog on a storage device at the support services server;
and
publishing the first business entity product catalog to a fourth POS device of a fourth business entity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/964,198Filed 9 Dec 2015 · us provisional application
Priority: 30 Oct 2015
Granted: 17 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06Q 20/202
Point-of-sale [POS] network systems: interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network…
G06Q 10/087
Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management: inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling,…
G06Q 10/0874
Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders: inventory fulfillment
G06Q 10/0877
Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders: by inventory control or reporting using inventory…