Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Online marketplace with shipping incentives
- Patent Title (中): 在线市场与航运激励
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Application No.: US13174309Application Date: 2011-06-30
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Publication No.: US08768763B2Publication Date: 2014-07-01
- Inventor: Eric Horvitz , Gur Kimchi , Lili Cheng , Doug Burger , Stelios Paparizos , Marc Davis
- Applicant: Eric Horvitz , Gur Kimchi , Lili Cheng , Doug Burger , Stelios Paparizos , Marc Davis
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agent Joann Dewey; Micky Minhas
- Main IPC: G06Q30/00
- IPC: G06Q30/00

Abstract:
A marketplace server and method for facilitating purchase transactions are provided. A marketplace server may include a routing engine configured to receive an order for goods from a first computing device associated with a first customer, with the order including a first delivery address of the customer. The routing engine also calculates a delivery route to the first delivery address. An offer engine is configured to create an offer for other goods. The offer includes a shipping incentive associated with a second delivery address of a second customer. The offer may be targeted to the second customer based on a proximity of the second delivery address to the delivery route. The offer engine sends the offer to a second computing device associated with the second customer. Upon receiving an acceptance of the offer from the computing device, the offer engine processes a purchase transaction for the offer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130006739A1 ONLINE MARKETPLACE WITH SHIPPING INCENTIVES Public/Granted day:2013-01-03
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