Patent classifications
G06Q30/0635
Email-based transactions for e-commerce
An electronic commerce (e-commerce) system may send advertisement emails to customers that are registered with the e-commerce system. The advertisement emails may include mailto hyperlinks. Each mailto hyperlink may be associated with a product that is being offered for sale, and each mailto hyperlink describes an email message that may be generated when that hyperlink is selected. When a mailto hyperlink is selected, the generated email message may include one or more parameters related to the product associated with the hyperlink, such as an identifier of the product. The generated email message may then be transmitted to the e-commerce system. The e-commerce system may receive the message and, based on the parameters in the received message, execute a transaction to purchase the identified product on behalf of the customer.
SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE BI-DIRECTIONAL ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ORDER FULFILLMENT PROCESS
A system to manage bi-directional electronic commerce order fulfillment process is disclosed. A processing subsystem including an order receiving module to receive one or more purchase orders corresponding to one or more products from a buyer at a first platform. An order handling module determines product state information associated with the first platform, identifies a requirement of transferring the one or more purchase orders corresponding to the one or more products to a second platform, transfers the one or more purchase orders from the first platform to the second platform via one or more order transferring processes. An order fulfilment module conveys buyer information associated with purchasing of the one or more products to the second platform, manages one or more payment options for financing the one or more products, receives delivery initiation information of the one or more products to the buyer, obtains an order fulfillment confirmation.
Visual indicator of frictionless status of retail shelves
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for providing a visual indicator indicative of a frictionless checkout status of at least a portion of a retail shelf. In one implementation, a method may comprise: receiving an output from one or more retail store sensors; based on the output from the one or more retail store sensors, determining a frictionless checkout eligibility status associated with the at least a portion of the retail shelf, wherein the frictionless checkout eligibility status is indicative of whether the at least a portion of the retail shelf includes one or more items eligible for frictionless checkout; and causing a display of an automatically generated visual indicator indicating the frictionless checkout eligibility status associated with the at least a portion of the retail shelf.
Real-time management of inventory transfers and related user interfaces
A computer-implemented is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a selection of a product; determining that there is insufficient available inventory of the product at a pick-up location; in response to the determining: selecting, based on inventory tracking data for the product, a first inventory location having available inventory of the product; determining, based on the first inventory location, the at least one possible pick-up location, and inventory transfer data, an inventory transfer time from the first inventory location to the pick-up location; and determining an earliest time of availability of a first quantity of the product at the pick-up location based on the inventory transfer time, and transmitting, to a customer device, the earliest time of availability of the first quantity of the product at the pick-up location for presenting, by the customer device, as available inventory at the pick-up location for pick up after the earliest time of availability.
Beauty and Health Supplies Delivery System
The present invention relates generally to a beauty supply delivery system primarily comprised of a software/mobile application that allows a user to place an order for beauty and/or health supplies. The order is then delivered via a delivery driver in a same-day time frame or shortly thereafter. The software/mobile application further contains a portal for suppliers of products sold on the system and a portal for delivery drivers. In addition, the system has a messaging feature and map interface to allow a user to locate and communicate with the delivery driver in real-time.
ITEM LEVEL DATA DETERMINATION SYSTEM
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for determining individual item-level details associated with a transaction. A plurality of purchase transactions associated with different merchants may be displayed via a user interface. Responsive to a user selection of a first transaction, of the plurality of transactions, a camera may capture an image of at least a portion of a user receipt associated with the first transaction. The image of the user receipt may be analyzed using one or more optical character recognition (OCR) algorithms to convert the image of the user receipt into textual data. One or more character strings associated with line item-level details may be extracted from the textual data associated with the first transaction. Additional information associated with the line item details may be determined and the line item details and the additional information may be displayed via a user interface.
USER INTERFACES FOR SUBSCRIPTION APPLICATIONS
In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces of the application store that are specific to a respective application. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents application store user interfaces that include information about applications in a respective category. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents application store user interfaces for accessing a respective category of applications. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a visual indication of a number of application updates that are available in an application store user interface. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces for launching and removing a respective application. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces of a generic application store and a dedicated application store for a respective category of applications. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents notifications of the completion of a download.
Point-of-interest-based anti-vehicle theft systems and processes for using the same
A sensing device can include at least one sensor, positioning circuitry, a transceiver, and a computing device in communication with the at least one sensor, the positioning circuitry, and the transceiver. The computing device can determine a location of a vehicle via the positioning circuitry. The computing device can determine that a point of interest (POI) associated with a predefined category of POIs corresponds to the location. The computing device, via the transceiver, can determine that a person is moving away from the vehicle based on a measurement associated with a remote device. The computing device can enter into an armed mode in response to the determinations. The computing device can detect an intrusion into a vehicle while in the armed mode based at least in part on measurements from the at least one sensor. The computing device can generate an alarm in response to the intrusion.
Real-time order delivery coordination between multiple merchants
A computer-implemented is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining current delivery schedules of a plurality of delivery entities, the current delivery schedules including delivery data for pending deliveries of product orders associated with a plurality of merchants; receiving, from a computing device, a first order for a product associated with a first merchant; determining order data for the first order, the order data indicating, at least, an inventory location having available inventory of the product and a delivery destination for the first order; identifying a first set of the pending deliveries, the identifying including comparing delivery routes associated with said pending deliveries with order data for the first order; generating messages for causing delivery entities associated with the first set of pending deliveries to include the first order in their respective delivery schedules; and sending the generated messages to the respective delivery entities.
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
The present disclosure is intended to accurately manage a stock quantity of a specific product held by a user. A controller comprising at least one processor in an information processing apparatus obtains an estimated value of the stock quantity of the specific product at a timing when an order for the specific product held by the user is received from the user. Then, in cases where the estimated value thus obtained is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value at which the user is assumed to place an order for the specific product, the controller in the information processing apparatus performs processing for checking a current stock quantity of the specific product.