Mobile commerce framework

摘要

A subscription-based system for providing commerce information for one or more mobile devices for one or more merchants. Some techniques employed feature a subscription-based method for presenting commercial resources to a mobile device. The method involves receiving mobile device user information relating to a geographic location to locate one or more merchants within a subscription-based shopping network, and receiving mobile device user information relating to a merchant type within the subscription-based shopping network. The method also involves receiving, from a database over a communication network, information for one or more merchants associated with the mobile device user information for the geographic location and the merchant type, and presenting the associated merchant information on the mobile device. The associated merchant information can include a merchant name and address, a merchant telephone number, a merchant advertisement, a merchant coupon, or a merchant product or service offering to subscribers of the shopping network.

主权项

1. A method executed on a mobile device, the method comprising:
receiving, by the mobile device from a member service intermediary computer of a subscription-based shopping network, an application program over a communication network, the application program being executable on the mobile device and configured receiving subscriber preferences for merchants from the subscriber to the subscription-based shopping network, the mobile device storing membership information including debit card or credit card information to represent a membership by the subscriber in the subscription-based shopping network; verifying, by the application program, the membership of the subscriber in the shopping-based shopping network based on the stored membership information; interacting, by the application program over the communication network, with a server that is connected with a database, the database storing merchant information for one or more merchants associated with the subscription-based shopping network, the interacting including matching at least some merchant information in the database with the subscriber preferences received by the application program on the mobile device; receiving, from the server via the communications network, merchant information that matches the subscriber preferences, the merchant information including commercial resources relating to goods and services provided by the one or more merchants associated with the subscription-based shopping network, the merchant information further including a location for the one or more merchants; determining, by the application program, a geographic position of the mobile device based on a global positioning system associated with the mobile device; defining, by the application program, a geographic area to search for the commercial resources based on the geographic position of the mobile device and the subscriber preferences; locating, via the application program, one or more of the commercial resources of the one or more merchants associated with the subscription-based shopping network that have a location within the geographic area; and presenting, by the application program, information relating to the located commercial resources on a display device of the mobile device.