发明名称 Linking online and retail-location shopping carts
摘要 A system for linking a shopper's online electronic shopping cart with the shopper's in-store electronic shopping cart is provided. The system includes an online website of a merchant for the purchase of goods by one or more shoppers. Each shopper is provided with an online electronic shopping cart accessible through the website and an in-store electronic shopping cart accessible at a local retail location. The online and in-store electronic shopping carts are linked by placing one or more items contained in the online shopping cart in the in-store shopping cart and vice versa. Related apparatus, methods, techniques and articles are also described.
申请公布号 US8983864(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.03.17
申请号 US201414281312 申请日期 2014.05.19
申请人 Blueport Commerce 发明人 Prindle Carl
分类号 G06Q30/00;G06Q30/06 主分类号 G06Q30/00
代理机构 Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. 代理人 Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
主权项 1. A computer-implemented method for implementation by at least one data processor, the method comprising: providing, by at least one data processor, an online website of a merchant for the purchase of goods by one or more shoppers; storing, by at least one data processor, shopper information in an electronic database for each of the shoppers, wherein each shopper is associated with a respective account; associating, by at least one data processor, an online electronic shopping cart with each respective account in the electronic database; associating, by at least one data processor, an online browsing history with each respective account in the electronic database; updating, by at least one data processor, the online browsing history when an online item has been shown to the respective shopper; updating, by at least one data processor, the online electronic shopping cart in the electronic database when the respective shopper selects the online item for purchase; associating, by at least one data processor, an in-store electronic shopping cart with each account in the electronic database, the in-store shopping cart corresponding to at least one retail location of the merchant; associating, by at least one data processor, an in-store browsing history with each respective account in the electronic database; updating, by at least one data processor, the in-store browsing history when an in-store item has been shown to the respective shopper; updating, by at least one data processor, the in-store electronic shopping cart in the electronic database when the respective shopper selects the in-store item for purchase; linking at least one data processor, the online shopping cart with the in-store shopping cart in the shopper database, including: synchronizing, by at least one data processor, the online shopping cart and the in-store shopping cart; andsynchronizing, by at least one data processor, the online browsing history and the in-store browsing history.
地址 Boston MA US