Method and system for reserving future purchases of goods and services

摘要

A method and system for reserving future purchases of goods or services or events. Group organizers buy a set of electronic options and post to their social network a notice of availability of the purchased set of electronic options for access to the underlying good or service or event. The group organizers invite their friends to join them to purchase the good or service or attend the event. The invited friends are allowed to exercise one or more individual options from the purchased set of electronic options to purchase the actual good or service or attend the event. This frees the group organizers from the burden of having to pay money for the good or service or event, collect money from invited friends and distribute the goods or items associated with the services or events yet promotes coordinated group activities.

主权项

1. A method for providing electronic options for goods or services or events or places, comprising:
displaying a plurality of electronic options for goods or services or events on a plurality of client applications on a plurality client network devices each with one or more processors from a server application on a server network device with one or more processors via a communications network, wherein the plurality of electronic options are not supplied or governed via a central government agency and are not supplied or governed via security laws and wherein the plurality of electronic options include a one or more different electronic option terms for one or more different suppliers, wherein the electronic option terms for a desired supplier are unique to a desired supplier; providing the plurality of electronic options from the server application on the server network device with a display feature to invent a group of friends to purchase a good or service or entry into a place or attend an event with a selected electronic option; receiving a payment message on the server application on the server network device via the communications network from a first client application on a first client network device including electronic payment of a pre-determined electronic option fee to purchase a set of electronic options for a good or service or event, wherein the set of electronic options are used to invite a group of friends to purchase the good or service or attend the event; receiving on the server application on the server network device a list of electronic identifiers for a group of client network devices for a group of friends associated with the purchased of the set of electronic options; recording the purchase of the set of electronic options and the list of electronic identifiers with the server application on the server network device in a database associated with the server network device; sending from the server application on the server network device a plurality of invitation messages to the list of electronic identifiers for the group of client network devices for the group of friends associated with the purchased of the set of electronic options making the group of friends aware of the set of electronic options and inviting the group of friends to exercise the electronic option to purchase the good or service or attend the event; receiving one or more exercise messages on the server application from the server network device from one or more client applications on the client network devices associated with the list of electronic identifiers via the communications network to exercise one or more individual electronic options from the purchased set of electronic options to purchase the good or service or attend the event; and sending one or more confirmation messages from the server application on the network device via the communications network to the one or more client applications on the client network devices associated with the list of electronic identifiers indicating the one or more individual purchased electronic options have been exercised to purchase the good or service or attend the event.