System and Method for Assembling a Shared Shopping Cart

摘要

A system and a method are provided for assembling, and publishing, a persistent cart of products online. The cart can have products from a single vendor or a variety of different vendors. When the cart is published, various deals, discounts, and incentives can be offered. An individual who created the cart can be rewarded. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium stores instructions of a computer program that when executed facilitates creation of the cart of items to be purchased and selects the individual or group of individuals to whom the cart is published. The purchasing of a cart does not eliminate the availability of the cart for subsequent users.

主权项

1. A system for creating an online cart of a plurality of items to be purchased, comprising:
a processor for executing instructions for permitting selection of the plurality of items to be purchased to form the cart; and an electronic storage device for storing data representing the cart and the plurality of items that are contents of the cart, wherein the processor follows instructions for selection of the cart by an individual or multiple individuals that the cart will be available for the purchase of the plurality of items in the cart.