PROCURING SPATIALLY FEASIBLE ON-DEMAND HOUSEHOLD-RELATED GOODS OR SERVICES

摘要

Methods of procuring urgent household-related goods or services enable consumers to obtain goods or services from local vendors offering those goods or services within a predetermined region. These methods may be implemented on devices such as smart phones, desktop computers, and servers. A server computes distances between the consumer device and preapproved vendors' locations, selects, and notifies a number of local vendors of the request. Upon receiving a number of vendor acceptances, the server selects a local vendor, notifies the consumer and the selected local vendor, and presents them with corresponding summaries. Methods of reverse auctioning of household-related goods or services enable consumers to receive and accept the lowest bid from vendors offering those goods or services within a predetermined time interval.

主权项

1. A machine implemented method of procuring urgent household-related goods or services, comprising:
(i) selecting one of a good and a service from a plurality of available goods and services, via a user device; (ii) transmitting a request for the one of a good and a service, via the user device; (iii) transmitting a user-device location of the user device, via the user device; (iv) receiving the request, via a server; (v) receiving the location, via the server; (vi) selecting one or more preapproved vendors from a list of preapproved vendors offering the available goods and services, wherein the list of preapproved vendors and vendor locations of the preapproved vendors are stored on a storage device of the server, via the server; (vii) computing one or more distances between one or more vendor locations of the one or more preapproved vendors and the user-device location, via the server; (viii) selecting one or more local vendors from the one or more preapproved vendors whose distances are within a predetermined region, via the server; (ix) transmitting one or more vendor notices, via the server; (x) receiving the one or more vendor notices, via one or more local vendor devices; (xi) transmitting one or more vendor acceptances, via the one or more local vendor devices; (xii) receiving the one or more vendor acceptances, via the server; (xiii) selecting one of the one or more local vendors associated with one of the one or more vendor acceptances, via the server; (xiv) transmitting a user notice, wherein the user notice comprises a local-vendor summary of the one of the one or more local vendors, via the server; (xv) transmitting a local-vendor notice, wherein the local-vendor notice comprises a user summary, via the server; (xvi) receiving the user notice, via the user device; and (xvii) receiving the local-vendor notice, via one of the one or more local vendor devices associated with the one of the one or more local vendors.