E-COMMERCE DEMAND AGGREGATION

摘要

Systems and methods for conducting e-commerce provide aggregation of the demand bycustomers for a product or service. The method provides a computer network-accessible server that accepts requests from customers (20) for goods or services, a request from a customer including at least a description of a desired purchase. The server (10) accumulates the requests and permits a merchant (30) access over the computer network to the accumulation of requests. The merchant (30) can make an offer that satisfies at least one of the requests, which offer can be accepted by the server (10). The server (10) notifies the customer of the merchant and of the offer that satisfies the request sent by the customer.