Social mobile shopping system

摘要

Methods and system are provided for enhancing consumer shopping. The methods and systems allow consumers to more readily purchase products of interest to them. The consumers' ability to shop effectively and efficiently is enhanced while a payment provider, such as PayPal, Inc., and/or an online seller, such as eBay, is given a mechanism for recruiting new users. For example, a user's online searches and/or stored shopping list can be used to determine which products the user is interested in purchasing and the availability of at least some of these products can be provided to the user, along with directions to the nearest POS brick-and-mortar stores where the products can be purchased.

主权项

1. A social mobile shopping system comprising:
a non-transitory memory storing computer executable code comprising a recommendation application programming interface (API) and a product availability API; and one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to:
receive, from a device associated with a user via a network connection, search information for the user;process the search information using the recommendation application programming interface (API);in response to processing the search information using the recommendation API, receive, from the recommendation API, at least one item of interest to the user based on the search information;process the at least one item of interest using the product availability API;in response to processing the at least one item of interest using the product availability API, receive from the product availability API, shopping locations providing the at least one item of interest for sale to the user;receive, from the device associated with the user via the network connection, global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of one or more destinations for travel by the user;determine, using the shopping locations and the GPS coordinates, a proposed route for the user, wherein the proposed route comprises at least one of the shopping locations; andcause the device associated with the user to display the proposed route.