SHOP MA, INC. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140164091 | Multi-Merchant Payment System Using Shopper Identifiers - A device and method of electronic payment that enables an e-commerce server to maintain a database comprising records for shopper accounts, enable a shopper to interactively create a shopper account and to interactively deposit a specified amount of money in the shopper account, to provide the shopper with a unique shopper identifier that corresponds to the shopper account, to paying a merchant from the shopper account for a purchase at the merchant's e-commerce website by the shopper, where the shopper used the unique shopper identifier as a means of payment. | 06-12-2014 |
20130185171 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RULE-BASED MULTI-SELECTION GIFTING - A computer processing-based method for multi-selection gifting, including identifying a multi-selection gift, by a client computer, the multi-selection gift including a plurality of items of merchandise, and a selection rule allowing a gift recipient to select up to a specified total number of items of merchandise in the multi-selection gift, the specified total number being greater than one, and interactively guiding the gift recipient in selecting items of merchandise of the multi-selection gift in accordance with the selection rule, by the client computer. | 07-18-2013 |
20130151365 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RULE-BASED MULTI-SELECTION GIFTING - A method for multi-selection gifting, including identifying a mufti-selection gift, the mufti-selection gift comprising (i) a gift recipient, (ii) a plurality of gift choices, each gift choice being either an individual item of merchandise or a group of items of merchandise, and (iii) a designated maximum cost of gift choices that may be selected, and interactively guiding the gift recipient in selecting one or more of the plurality of gift choices without exceeding the designated maximum cost, including un-grouping a group of items in a gift choice into a plurality of individual items, and re-grouping a plurality of items into a group, if the plurality of items were originally part of the same group in the mufti-selection gift. | 06-13-2013 |
20120011025 | Multi-Merchant Payment System - A method of payment for mufti-vendor gift cards, that performs actions including maintaining a merchandise database comprising records for merchandise and services for a plurality of merchants, enabling a gift card giver to interactively purchase a gift card for a gift card recipient, entitling the gift card recipient to redeem the gift card for items up to a specified spending limit, electronically transferring the money used to purchase the gift card into a card funding account that is used to pay for purchases by the gift card recipient, enabling the gift card recipient to interactively select one or more items from the merchandise database, thereby generating an aggregated selection of items for each merchant, issuing orders to each merchant in accordance with the aggregated selected items corresponding to each merchant and paying each merchant the amount of their respective order from the card funding account. | 01-12-2012 |