Methods and Systems for Dynamic and Embeddable Storefront Widget

摘要

Methods and systems for extracting and displaying one or more products on a virtual storefront embedded in a topical community web page are disclosed. The displayed products may then be purchased by a user or a community member or a member of the group or forum directly at the virtual storefront. The community web page is related to a particular interest or a context and hosts information or media related to that particular context. The systems and methods disclosed herein may facilitate the community web page administrator, community web page owner, or any other person in similar capacity to either select one or more products statically or the products are dynamically extracted from one or more of a connected storefront or a marketplace or both.

主权项

1. A virtual storefront system configured for dynamically displaying one or more products in a virtual storefront embedded in a topical online community web page for selling, wherein the system comprises:
a topical online community server connected to a user terminal via a network and configured for presenting the topical online community web page of a topical online community on the user terminal and dynamically generating statistical information of the topical online community web page; a virtual storefront server communicatively coupled with a virtual storefront database comprising statistical information related to the one or more products, the topical online community server and at least one of storefront server and marketplace server containing information relating to the one or more products, wherein the virtual storefront server is configured for:
extracting information relating to the one or more products from the at least one of storefront server and marketplace server based on one or more parameters, wherein the one or more parameters comprises of one or more keywords provided by an administrator of the topical online community web page; dynamically selecting at least one product from the extracted one or more products based on at least one of the statistical information related to the one or more products, the one or more parameters, and one or more attributes of a user accessing the topical online community web page; extracting and optimizing a storefront template from one or more storefront templates stored in the virtual storefront database based on attributes related to the user terminal and topical online community; dynamically arranging the information relating to selected at least one product according to the extracted storefront template based on either the one or more parameters or the statistical information related to the topical online community web page; sending the optimized storefront template and the dynamically arranged information relating to the selected at least one product to the topical online community server for display at the user terminal; and receiving one or more user transaction instructions from the user terminal via the topical online community server for enabling a purchase at the virtual storefront server.