Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080228592 | SERVICES FOR GENERATION OF ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE LISTINGS USING PERSONAL PURCHASE HISTORIES OR OTHER INDICIA OF PRODUCT OWNERSHIP - An electronic marketplace system provides various features for assisting users in listing products for sale, locating the listings for a product, and performing related actions. A user wishing to sell a product can browse to an existing description of the product in an electronic catalog and then select an option to create a corresponding listing. If the user previously purchased the product via the system, the user may alternatively select the product from a personal purchase history. The system may also proactively send product-specific listing requests to those who have purchased or otherwise indicated ownership of specific products. | 09-18-2008 |
20080243644 | MARKETPLACE SYSTEM IN WHICH USERS GENERATE USER-TO-USER PREORDER LISTINGS VIA A DEFINITIVE PRODUCT CATALOG - An electronic marketplace system provides various features for assisting users in listing products for sale, locating the listings for a product, and performing related actions. A user wishing to sell a product can browse to an existing description of the product in an electronic catalog and then select an option to create a corresponding listing. The pending listings for a product are preferably displayed or summarized on the product's detail page in the catalog. When no such listings exist, an option to preorder the product from an unspecified seller may be provided, and information regarding the resulting preorders may be displayed on the associated product detail pages to entice potential sellers. In one embodiment, the electronic catalog also serves as a retail sales catalog of a merchant. | 10-02-2008 |
20120116979 | Enabling Communication Between, and Production of Content By, Rights Holders and Content Producers - A content exchange service facilitates communication between, and production of content by, holders of rights in content titles and producers of content. The content exchange service receives content profiles from various rights holders and surfaces the content profiles to producers for purposes of soliciting auditions to produce the content subject of the content profiles in an alternative form. The rights holder can review the auditions submitted by producers and establish communication with the producer of the audition the rights holder liked via the content exchange service. The content exchange service can then facilitate negotiation of an agreement between the rights holder and the producer for production of the content in an alternative form. Following finalization of the agreement, the producer may submit a complete production of the content in the alternative form to the content exchange service, which in turn presents the complete production to the rights holder for approval. | 05-10-2012 |
20130198084 | UTILIZING PHRASE TOKENS IN TRANSACTIONS - A system and method for facilitating transactions utilizing phrase tokens are provided. Individual entities can be associated with unambiguous transaction phrase tokens, such as multiple word phrases. The transaction phrase tokens are associated with transaction accounts by a service provider such that the entities can complete a transaction without having to exchange transaction account information. In a transaction, a transaction phrase token is offered to an accepting party, which tenders the offered transaction phrase token to the service provider. The service provider processes the offered transaction phrase token according to configuration information specified for the transaction phrase token. The service provider can automatically process the transaction request or request additional information. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204789 | UTILIZING PHRASE TOKENS IN TRANSACTIONS - A system and method for facilitating transactions utilizing phrase tokens are provided. Individual entities can be associated with unambiguous transaction phrase tokens, such as multiple word phrases. The transaction phrase tokens are associated with transaction accounts by a service provider such that the entities can complete a transaction without having to exchange transaction account information. In a transaction, a transaction phrase token is offered to an accepting party, which tenders the offered transaction phrase token to the service provider. The service provider processes the offered transaction phrase token according to configuration information specified for the transaction phrase token. The service provider can automatically process the transaction request or request additional information. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204790 | UTILIZING PHRASE TOKENS IN TRANSACTIONS - A system and method for facilitating transactions utilizing phrase tokens are provided. Individual entities can be associated with unambiguous transaction phrase tokens, such as multiple word phrases. The transaction phrase tokens are associated with transaction accounts by a service provider such that the entities can complete a transaction without having to exchange transaction account information. In a transaction, a transaction phrase token is offered to an accepting party, which tenders the offered transaction phrase token to the service provider. The service provider processes the offered transaction phrase token according to configuration information specified for the transaction phrase token. The service provider can automatically process the transaction request or request additional information. | 08-08-2013 |
20140100930 | REDEMPTION RECORDATION AND VERIFICATION - The collection of voucher redemption information may reduce instances of redemption error or redemption fraud, which benefits both consumers and merchants. The collection of voucher redemption information may involve a service receiving a selection of a voucher for redemption from an application on an electronic device, in which the voucher was previously acquired by a consumer through a deal offered by a merchant. The service may subsequently direct the application to acquire a credential to complete the redemption of the voucher. In various instances, the credential may be a merchant confirmation credential of the merchant or a consumer redemption credential of the consumer. The service may receive the credential from the application on the electronic device, and store a record of the voucher redemption for the voucher in a voucher redemption database, in which the record includes the credential. | 04-10-2014 |
20140278877 | Facilitating Purchase of Excess Items - Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating the purchase of excess items. In one embodiment, customer information and inventory data are retrieved from a merchant client. A determination is made on whether excess items exist. A list of target purchasers is generated based on data associated with a user account, and offers are generated and sent by electronic communication to the list of target purchasers. | 09-18-2014 |
20140351085 | USING THEME-BASED ITEM GROUPINGS TO FACILITATE ITEM SELECTION - Techniques are described that allow customers and other users of an electronic marketplace to create groups of related items within the electronic marketplace, such as for customers of a Web store to create boutiques within the Web store that each reflect a specified theme. Such themed boutiques within a Web store can include various items that are available via the Web store and that each relate to the specified theme for the boutique. When other customers of the Web store are interested in items that relate to the specified theme for one of the boutiques, information regarding that boutique and/or items in that boutique can then be provided to those other customers. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 11-27-2014 |