Invention Grant
US07788142B2 Systems and methods for providing community based catalogs and/or community based on-line services
有权
用于提供基于社区的目录和/或基于社区的在线服务的系统和方法
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for providing community based catalogs and/or community based on-line services
- Patent Title (中): 用于提供基于社区的目录和/或基于社区的在线服务的系统和方法
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Application No.: US12203243Application Date: 2008-09-03
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Publication No.: US07788142B2Publication Date: 2010-08-31
- Inventor: Geoffry A. Westphal
- Applicant: Geoffry A. Westphal
- Applicant Address: US IL Lake Forest
- Assignee: W.W. Grainger, Inc.
- Current Assignee: W.W. Grainger, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Lake Forest
- Agency: Greenberg Traurig, LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q30/00
- IPC: G06Q30/00 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
A buying community is established by discerning customers having the same or similar business types. The business type of a customer may be discerned from a keyword within a corporate, business, or other entity name that is associated with the customer or from purchasing interests commonly shared by customers. Once a buying community is established, behaviors of customers within that buying community are discerned. These behaviors may include product purchasing behaviors, on-line navigation behaviors, on-line searching behaviors, etc. The discerned behaviors of the customers within the buying community may then be used to provide catalogs customized for those members and/or on-line services customized for those members.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090216660A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING COMMUNITY BASED CATALOGS AND/OR COMMUNITY BASED ON-LINE SERVICES Public/Granted day:2009-08-27
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