| 摘要 |
Methods and systems for making competitive sales or incentive offers from merchants through a service provider to a user while protecting user privacy enable merchants to make offers that are based on a user shopping wish list—which may be either transient (having a pre-set expiration time) or non-transient—in which the wish lists are provided from users through the service provider to merchants in a secure and private manner. A computer-implemented method includes: sending, to a merchant device of a merchant, some wish list data about a wish list item for a user, the wish list data containing no specifically identifying information about the user; receiving, by a service provider device of a service provider, an offer about the wish list item from the merchant based on the wish list data; and providing, to a user device for the user, the offer about the wish list item. |
| 主权项 |
1. A system for processing scanned data associated with an item at a location and providing analysis over a network, comprising:
a processor configured to communicate over the network with a user device and with a merchant device of a merchant; and a data storage device including a computer-readable medium having computer readable code for instructing the processor, and when executed by the processor performs operations comprising: updating, by the processor, a transient wish list for a user, based on information scanned from an item using the user device and received by the processor, with data associated with the item and a pre-set expiration time for response to the user; analyzing, by the processor, the transient wish list for the user, the data associated with the item, and the pre-set expiration time to determine one or more recommendations of what a likely offer price would be for pre-empting the sale of the item the user has scanned; sending, by the processor to at least one merchant device of a plurality of subscribing merchants, an analysis result including one or more of the recommendations and the pre-set expiration time, the analysis result excluding identifying information about the user; and filtering competing sale and incentive offers from the plurality of subscribing merchants, based on the analysis result, for display to the user on the user device within the pre-set expiration time. |
