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Abstract
An online interactive market system and method thereof for maintaining portable virtual offices &
stores comprising of a product and service database systematically and in real time, characterized in that a user interface for inputting product and service information systematically and procedures of registering the product or service is provided to a seller /
subscriber and information associated with the seller or the product or service is provided to a buyer, the said search method including a detailed and comprehensive geographic country and city index &
product categories to locate the said online virtual offices, stores and products in any desired city. The online interactive market system offers further services such as business consultation, subscriber business name and bank account verification, subscriber networking options, sale of international phone numbers and domain names, registration of trademarks and other incidental services.
stores comprising of a product and service database systematically and in real time, characterized in that a user interface for inputting product and service information systematically and procedures of registering the product or service is provided to a seller /
subscriber and information associated with the seller or the product or service is provided to a buyer, the said search method including a detailed and comprehensive geographic country and city index &
product categories to locate the said online virtual offices, stores and products in any desired city. The online interactive market system offers further services such as business consultation, subscriber business name and bank account verification, subscriber networking options, sale of international phone numbers and domain names, registration of trademarks and other incidental services.
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TITLE: ONLINE INTERACTIVE MARKET
Field of Invention:
The present invention belong to the field of the Internet electronic commerce and more particularly the present invention relates to an improved online shopping system that facilitates an interactive shopping experience for goods and services.
Background of the Invention:
The conduct of commercial transactions has been simpiified into different trading modes, and is done in different ways at different time. For example, the Barter system in ancient time refers to exchanging goods with goods, and the platinum, gold, money, paper money, check, money remittance are also used as an instrument for making payment. The trading medium has changed from fair, store, to mail order. As to the application of credit instruments such as a credit card, online shopping can be paid by credit cards, which indicates the cultural development of mankind.
The use of computers to access data via the Internet has pervaded practically every aspect of life today. Businesses can have offices around the world, all connected through the Internet, allowing employees sitting in the US to work on a project with other co-workers in offices in other sites, and even other countries.
Most homes have some method in place to access this same Internet, either through the telephone lines or some form of high-speed connection such as cable, satellite, to name a few. With the world becoming increasingly connected, it is possible for individuals to do things through this ever-expanding virtual world that previously needed to be done in the real world.
Field of Invention:
The present invention belong to the field of the Internet electronic commerce and more particularly the present invention relates to an improved online shopping system that facilitates an interactive shopping experience for goods and services.
Background of the Invention:
The conduct of commercial transactions has been simpiified into different trading modes, and is done in different ways at different time. For example, the Barter system in ancient time refers to exchanging goods with goods, and the platinum, gold, money, paper money, check, money remittance are also used as an instrument for making payment. The trading medium has changed from fair, store, to mail order. As to the application of credit instruments such as a credit card, online shopping can be paid by credit cards, which indicates the cultural development of mankind.
The use of computers to access data via the Internet has pervaded practically every aspect of life today. Businesses can have offices around the world, all connected through the Internet, allowing employees sitting in the US to work on a project with other co-workers in offices in other sites, and even other countries.
Most homes have some method in place to access this same Internet, either through the telephone lines or some form of high-speed connection such as cable, satellite, to name a few. With the world becoming increasingly connected, it is possible for individuals to do things through this ever-expanding virtual world that previously needed to be done in the real world.
One specific aspect of the Internet, more widely used than most, is the World Wide Web. People use the Web to talk to their friends, check mail, read the paper, and even shop online for goods and services that used to be purchased through "brick and mortar" retail channels. The number of online shopping options available to consumers has increased dramatically over the past few years to accommodate the growing demand for interactive online shopping. From the shopper's point of view, online shopping can eliminate much of the stress associated with the more traditional shopping experience. Moreover, online prices are generally lower than prices offered by retail merchants with a physical storefront as well. Given the current regulatory environment, most Internet purchases are also exempt from taxes. Additionally, online shopping allows customers to quickly and easily locate the desired goods and/or services, perform rapid price comparisons, and complete their purchases, all without leaving their home or office. All of this can create an opportunity for shoppers to save both time and money.
It is a known fact that the internet based shopping system allows the customer a great pleasure, flexibility and relaxation which have proved a great success in the electronic shopping arena. For a number of years, shopping over the internet has grown increasingly popular for both business and personal use as more merchants offer goods and services through associated websites. Normally, with an intemet based shopping system, a customer accesses a website, views products and/or services and associated specifications, chooses a product and/or service for purchase, selects a delivery option, provides delivery and credit card payment information and authorizes a purchase transaction.
In the recent years it is very well known that the shopping over through the internet has grown rapidly to a maximum extent, which has made the business and the personal use very popular for both the buyers and sellers who offer goods and all other services through the websites. Generally in an intemet based shopping system, a user accesses a website, views products for purchase, and selects a delivery option and payment procedures. While accessing the internet for the electronic commerce many shopping systems provide a virtual shopping store which holds the selected products for sale, similarly the product is kept in the virtual store until it is being sold out or the customer completes their shopping. And this virtual shopping store can examined at any time to check whether the store is genuinely functioning and their contents can be edited or deleted at the option of the customer. If the customer/buyer decides to buy a product from the virtual office, he may print the contents of the virtual shopping store in order to obtain a hard copy record of the transaction.
When ordering goods, many shopping systems provide a virtual shopping cart for holding items selected for purchase. Successive items selected for purchase are placed into the virtual shopping cart until a customer completes their shopping trip.
Virtual shopping carts may be examined at any time, and their contents can be edited or deleted at the option of the customer. Once the customer decides to submit a purchase order, the customer may print the contents of the virtual shopping basket in order to obtain a hard copy record of the transaction.
The relevant prior art methods, which relates to a secure online interactive market, are as follows:
United States Patent Application 20050033650 describes an online Gift Registry Service provides registration of information for a gift registrant and allows access to the registry by potential gift giver users. In addition, users can tag items of interest at participating Service Provider (SP) sites and the SP sites will register these items with the Gift Registry Service on the usees behalf. It further provides a streamlined checkout process for purchasing these gift items with the registered SP sites (e.g. World Wide Web sites) over a distributed public network. Users and Service Providers (SP) initially register with the Gift Registry Service and are provided additional functionality. For users, a reminder service is provided to notify individuals automatically upon the trigger of certain events, such as important dates or product sales from online merchants. In addition, there are various occasion planning services available such as distribution lists, discussion groups, and other related resources for multiple events including weddings, baby showers, etc. These other resources include sending out announcements, reserving halls, and contracting services of related businesses for the occasion. A distinct advantage of this system is that users can perform all the planning for the event online in the comfort of their home or office. Service Providers on the other hand, can register system notification messages to be triggered on pre-determined events. In addition, Service Providers can obtain marketing information to tailor their products and services.
United States Patent Application 20010054013 discloses a method for operating databases in an electronic commerce business system and a computer-readable recording medium of storing programs for realizing the method. 2. Technical subject the invention tends to solve The present invention provides a goods sale method in the internet electronic commerce business of performing goods sales in types customers wish by individually and systematically managing databases of various goods, and a computer-readable recording medium of storing programs for realizing the method. 3. Gist in a solution method of the invention The present invention comprises steps of (1) building an option-type goods database for option-type goods saleable in option; (2) building an option items database for respective constituents consisting of the respective option-type goods; (3) building an option items classification database for options substantially saleable as to the respective option items; and (4) providing information on the respective databases to users who connect to a service-providing server through a network, and completing deals in option-type goods by considering respective options selected by the users. 4. Important use of the invention. The present invention is used for the internet electronic commerce business and the like.
United States Patent Application 20030055745 relates to an electronic commerce system using live images of virtual space on the internet and a method of utilizing the same, in which an online shopping mall is established by inputting live images captured by a plurality of cameras set up in an actual shopping mall and mapping link information in the live images, so that consumers can directly participate in electronic commercial transactions, communicating with sales clerks of the live images by phone or computer on the interact as well as checking around market situations on the real-time basis.
In United States Patent Application 20010029472 an anonymous purchase and sale system applicable to online shopping using computers between a purchaser and a salesperson is actualized by an anonymous purchase and sale management server, a purchaser terminal device, a salesperson terminal device, an anonymous settlement server and an anonymous delivery system, all of which are linked together via a network. Herein, the anonymous purchase and sale management server activates a commodity sales processor and an analyzer in connection with a sales history storage device, a purchaser's preference storage device and a commodity information storage device. Receiving purchase request information from a purchaser terminal device, the commodity sales processor retrieves from all items of commodity information stored in the commodity information storage device, at least one item of the commodity information that suits to the purchase request information. The purchaser selects a desired item from the retrieved commodity information to send purchasing commodity specifying information to the server, wherein the commodity sales processor generates an order ID. A pair of the order ID and purchasing commodity specifying information are sent to the purchaser terminal device and salesperson terminal device, thus allowing payment of a value for the commodity over the anonymous settlement sever and delivery of the commodity over the anonymous delivery system in connection with the order ID. The purchasing commodity specifying information and purchase request information are respectively registered with the sales history storage device and purchaser's preference storage device for use in provision of information and analysis results for the salesperson.
United States Patent Application 20020156688 relates to a comprehensive system that effectuates global electronic commerce on the Internet across frontiers of nations, cultures, and languages. Referral Websites serving various locales offer Buyers the opportunity to view products for purchase. A Buyer selects categories of products for viewing by using drop-down menus that organize products into a clear taxonomy that can be expressed across all languages. Having selected a category of products for viewing, a Buyer receives, from a multi-version relational database, a version of marketing information about each product. The version is one automatically sent from the database to match the Buyer's language, culture, and nationality, as deduced from the use of a particular Referral Website. A
shopping cart allows Buyers to select a product for purchase in an interactive way that encourages completion of the purchase. Products can be offered with custom options and in wholesale quantities. Personalized Web pages allow comprehensive customer service after a sale.
United States Patent Application 20070088615 relates to a system and method that can provide a system and method that manage both an online store and physical stores utilizing dual-interfaces general-purpose computers. The present invention utilizes a centralized database for managing both an online store and physical stores. The management functionalities for the online store and the physical stores are integrated into one system. In order to utilize the benefits of both a general-purpose computer interface and a POS-style interface, and avoid their disadvantages at the same time, dual interfaces are used in the present invention. A POS-style interface is used to perform easy daily operations, while a general-purpose computer interface is used to perform complicated management tasks and other general-purpose computer tasks.
United States Patent Application 20020023009 provides a method of giving gifted goods utilizing communication networks in which gift senders or gift recipients register information on gift recipients related to gift recipients in the server of gift dealers handling gifts. Gift dealers handling gifts provide the information on preferable goods related to preferable gifted goods to gift senders based on the information on gift recipients. Gift senders select and give gifted goods to gift recipients based on the information on gift recipients. Based on the information on gift senders and gift recipients or the messages exchanged by users in the virtual space, the virtual stores are prepared, and by giving the gifted goods in the virtual space, the gifts are given in reality.
United States Patent Application No: 20020072974 discloses a ShopLive system that supports existing merchants and malls to better serve customers by providing easy access to merchandise and sales assistants over a communication network to display items and to provide expert information on products. The shopping experience is enhanced by tokens to allow ease of shopping and checkout. Items purchased that need installation or service or supported by accessing live experts.
Direct connection to service providers is available over the network. If a shopper does not find the desired merchandise they are referred to another merchant who has the product and the referring merchants receives a commission or other consideration.
United States Patent Application 20070186238 describes a system for providing first person, streamed video data to a prospective purchaser to create a realistic shopping experience on-line, consists of or includes receiving data from a user designating a shopping area, presenting to the user video data streams of the selected area, receiving navigation commands from the user to modify the streams, creating for the user the appearance of moving through the selected area, whereby the user may select a store, and likewise receive video data streams for shopping within the store, and for selecting products.
United States Patent Application No: 20040230676 discloses a knowledge network and semcards enabling intelligent matching of offers and requests, involving all types of information and knowledge, including information such as classified ads, data about products and services, or knowledge, expertise, ideas, suggestions, opinions, and other forms of tacit knowledge is described. The invention is capable of intelligent matching of offers and requests, involving all types of knowledge: information, ideas, suggestions, opinions, products, services, jobs, events, people, skills, etc, using semcards and semcard-like structures, creating a bi-directional marketplace on the Internet, desktop or intranet.
The invention enables parties to search and do marketing in the same way, in the same environment. A semcard can be designated as an offer or a request. When the semcard has been specified to the user's satisfaction it can be test-posted.
Using semantic routing, semcards that represent offers, requests, and queries, can be routed semantically between nodes on the network. The routing profile describes salient features of the semcard, as deemed necessary for supporting efficient routing of semcards. Collections of semcards can also be matched or compared in a knowledge network. Users can also create new semcard templates or extend the ontology, and share these extensions with other users in the network. In another aspect of the invention, the semcard management application provides statistics on phenomena such as supply and demand trends for particular types of offers, requests and semcards, number of users with a particular interest profiles, number of potential matches for particular advertisements, and distribution of the user population along multiple dimensions.
United States Patent Application No: 20040034607 describes trusted contract enforcement in the context of an electronic marketplace infrastructure. In particular, it describes the model and the component for mediated service delivery developed by the applicant. The presented solution is based on the concept of externalisation for service consumer views of the business processes of service providers.
United States Patent Application No: 20050171862 includes a method for transacting business over a network between multiple buyers and sellers. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention operates within an improved extranet system which is a secure, limited access network which operates within the larger public packet switched network (Intemet) and allows only registered buyers and sellers to access the website while the system communicates with, and takes advantage of, existing credit, billing, collection, clearinghouse, insurance, transportation, tracking and banking systems. The interactive database includes real-time information in connection with a transaction, where the buyer submits a request for product and the request for the product locks out the requested product from selection by any other buyers.
United States Patent Application No: 20050171862 discloses a system for enhancing trust in transactions, most particularly in remote transactions between a plurality of transactional parties, for instance a seller and buyer(s) of goods and/or services over a public computer network such as the internet. Trust is disclosed to be a multivalent commodity, in that the trust that is to be enhanced relates to information about the subject matter of the transactions (e.g., the suitability of the goods and services sold), the bona fides of the supplier of the goods and services, the appropriateness of a pricing structure for a particular transaction or series of transactions, a quantum of additional transactional value that may be imparted to the transactional relationship, security of information exchange, etc. An important contributor to trust for such aspects of the transaction is disclosed to be the use of highly-secure steganographic computer processing means for data identification, authentication, and transmission, such that confidence in the transaction components is enhanced. By providing an integrated multivalent system for enhancing trust across a variety of categories (for a variety of transaction species, including those in which the need for trust is greater on the part of one party than of another, as well as those in which both require substantial trust enhancement), the invention reduces barriers to forming and optimizing transactional relationships.
United States Patent No: 6,850,900 provides an internet based or locally hosted business to business full service secure commercial electronic marketplace which facilitates transactions between suppliers and buyers. The system transforms the suppliers' content into generic content and enables the suppliers to review, correct and update the supplier content. The system distributes the content back to the supplier and to selected buyers in a generic and usable format across multiple forums. The system further provides multiple levels of sourcing for the suppliers and buyers including a private on-contract sourcing level, a, private off-contract sourcing level, a private index off-contract sourcing level, a private supplier or seller sourcing level, a public buyer sourcing level, and content distribution for buy side sourcing levels, supply side sourcing levels, multi-buyer exchanges and multi-supplier exchanges.
However the online shopping model has a limited success while delivering the goods and customers are very often not satisfied for shopping using an online or internet system. For example, if the seller wants to access the online shopping portal he needs to go through a series of steps and get signed up to a new interface which actually allows him to access to a personalized control panel.
Again the current search techniques used by most online vendors require that the user input their entire search request, strike a key to indicate they've finished entering the search parameters, then wait for any possible matching products.
If there are no products, the consumer must try to create a new search request, and then wait again resulting in delay time.
Again the online shopping service is usually limited to a few goods and does not fulfill all the needs of the customer including need for various kinds of services.
Hence, the customer often is not satisfied in using the online shopping system.
Again the ambience of real stores and offices is not matched by the online shopping experience and certainly does not parallel the full sensory experience of visiting a real store or office.
There should be a utility model which makes very convenient and comprehensive search method and thus a common interface for linking both the sellers and buyers by simply using the personalized domain name to directly access the online virtual office/store.
Thus even though the existing variations of online shopping are not without merit, the present variations of online shopping have one or more significant drawbacks, such as search methodology and data access limitations, disjointed information presentation, or the like. In these situations and with the current technology, additional opportunities for the streamlined processing of online shopping transactions are similarly limited and lack significant potential for growth and widespread adoption. In order to improve the customer satisfaction in the electronic commerce there is a need for an improved and more flexible item delivery system. There is a further need for an improved and more flexible delivery or service window capability. Additionally, there is a need in the art for a visual presentation of the shops and offices that offer their good and services online in the online shopping portal.
Summary of Invention:
The invention described herein describes a method that provides worldwide business promotion & accessibility.
Generally speaking, exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for maintaining portable virtual offices & stores by i) constructing a product and service database systematically and in real time, in such a manner that a user interface for inputting product and service information systematically is provided to a seller / subscriber and procedures of registering the product or service are performed and ii) if the product or service is selected by a buyer, reflecting information associated with the seller or the product or service in the product database systematically and in real time.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is a method and system for minimal cost (subscription fee for online virtual offices &
store) involved in the process and minimal time spent, unlike physical offices &
stores.
A further embodiment of the present invention provide a method and system that involves a very convenient & comprehensive search method by using the online shopping portal's geographic index & product categories to locate existing online virtual offices, stores and products in any desired city.
Yet another embodiment of the present invention provide a method and system for that enables enhanced suitability for practicing business persons and professionals to conduct business due to elaborate search tools and interactive features.
Detailed Description of the Invention The description of the invention is presented to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the invention, and the working of the invention is displayed as follows.
The present invention comprises two essential requirements for the actual functioning of the invention and they are the seller/subscriber and the buyer.
The seller I subscriber 1. Signs up - As the present invention relates to the online shopping market, the seller who wants to do business through the internet has to sign up on the online shopping portal.
2. Gets access to a personalized control panel to customize the online virtual office & store - The seller will be provided with username and password of his choice, and after the sign up process is over he gets access to a personalized control panel.
3. Receives a subdomain or a nonexclusive domain name ( online office & store number), to access the online office or store - the subscriber/seller receives either a subdomain or a nonexclusive domain name (both domains are added with online office or store numbers and integrated with the main domain name of the website), to access the online ofrice or store - the seller will be provided with a subdomain or nonexclusive domain in the personalized control panel and this will allow the seller and the buyer a direct access to the online virtual office or store with out the search method. also the seller may use a pre-owned exclusive domain name or numbers to access online virtual office and store, but at the same time the exclusive domain name or numbers will be redirected to the subdomain or nonexclusive domain (describe above) of the website 4. Edits and customizes the online office or store and uploads images & videos -After receiving the personalized domain name from the online shopping portal the seller/subscriber can do any kind of designs works, post product or service information or can edit and customize his virtual office and store. The product or service information may include information on a price or fees of the product or service, a category thereof, image data thereof, whether an after-sale service thereof is paid or free, size or color thereof, the number thereof, a delivery method thereof and a registration date thereof and whether a gift or a point is offered to a purchaser of the product or service, a payment method of the product or service (whether a credit card or a payment by installment is available) and the like.
Designing the virtual office and store by using and choosing different colors and shades provided in the personalized control panel and similarly editing part like editing the business and personal profile and descriptions of products and services and providing contact information such as address, phone etc., and all these newly edited items will be displayed in the online virtual office and store.
Similarly customizing the size, style and color of the fonts, rewriting of profiles, products and services, re uploading the images and videos and changing the colors and shades of online virtual office and store can also be done. And all these works can be done by using the demo and instructions provided in the personalized control panel.
It is a known fact that the internet based shopping system allows the customer a great pleasure, flexibility and relaxation which have proved a great success in the electronic shopping arena. For a number of years, shopping over the internet has grown increasingly popular for both business and personal use as more merchants offer goods and services through associated websites. Normally, with an intemet based shopping system, a customer accesses a website, views products and/or services and associated specifications, chooses a product and/or service for purchase, selects a delivery option, provides delivery and credit card payment information and authorizes a purchase transaction.
In the recent years it is very well known that the shopping over through the internet has grown rapidly to a maximum extent, which has made the business and the personal use very popular for both the buyers and sellers who offer goods and all other services through the websites. Generally in an intemet based shopping system, a user accesses a website, views products for purchase, and selects a delivery option and payment procedures. While accessing the internet for the electronic commerce many shopping systems provide a virtual shopping store which holds the selected products for sale, similarly the product is kept in the virtual store until it is being sold out or the customer completes their shopping. And this virtual shopping store can examined at any time to check whether the store is genuinely functioning and their contents can be edited or deleted at the option of the customer. If the customer/buyer decides to buy a product from the virtual office, he may print the contents of the virtual shopping store in order to obtain a hard copy record of the transaction.
When ordering goods, many shopping systems provide a virtual shopping cart for holding items selected for purchase. Successive items selected for purchase are placed into the virtual shopping cart until a customer completes their shopping trip.
Virtual shopping carts may be examined at any time, and their contents can be edited or deleted at the option of the customer. Once the customer decides to submit a purchase order, the customer may print the contents of the virtual shopping basket in order to obtain a hard copy record of the transaction.
The relevant prior art methods, which relates to a secure online interactive market, are as follows:
United States Patent Application 20050033650 describes an online Gift Registry Service provides registration of information for a gift registrant and allows access to the registry by potential gift giver users. In addition, users can tag items of interest at participating Service Provider (SP) sites and the SP sites will register these items with the Gift Registry Service on the usees behalf. It further provides a streamlined checkout process for purchasing these gift items with the registered SP sites (e.g. World Wide Web sites) over a distributed public network. Users and Service Providers (SP) initially register with the Gift Registry Service and are provided additional functionality. For users, a reminder service is provided to notify individuals automatically upon the trigger of certain events, such as important dates or product sales from online merchants. In addition, there are various occasion planning services available such as distribution lists, discussion groups, and other related resources for multiple events including weddings, baby showers, etc. These other resources include sending out announcements, reserving halls, and contracting services of related businesses for the occasion. A distinct advantage of this system is that users can perform all the planning for the event online in the comfort of their home or office. Service Providers on the other hand, can register system notification messages to be triggered on pre-determined events. In addition, Service Providers can obtain marketing information to tailor their products and services.
United States Patent Application 20010054013 discloses a method for operating databases in an electronic commerce business system and a computer-readable recording medium of storing programs for realizing the method. 2. Technical subject the invention tends to solve The present invention provides a goods sale method in the internet electronic commerce business of performing goods sales in types customers wish by individually and systematically managing databases of various goods, and a computer-readable recording medium of storing programs for realizing the method. 3. Gist in a solution method of the invention The present invention comprises steps of (1) building an option-type goods database for option-type goods saleable in option; (2) building an option items database for respective constituents consisting of the respective option-type goods; (3) building an option items classification database for options substantially saleable as to the respective option items; and (4) providing information on the respective databases to users who connect to a service-providing server through a network, and completing deals in option-type goods by considering respective options selected by the users. 4. Important use of the invention. The present invention is used for the internet electronic commerce business and the like.
United States Patent Application 20030055745 relates to an electronic commerce system using live images of virtual space on the internet and a method of utilizing the same, in which an online shopping mall is established by inputting live images captured by a plurality of cameras set up in an actual shopping mall and mapping link information in the live images, so that consumers can directly participate in electronic commercial transactions, communicating with sales clerks of the live images by phone or computer on the interact as well as checking around market situations on the real-time basis.
In United States Patent Application 20010029472 an anonymous purchase and sale system applicable to online shopping using computers between a purchaser and a salesperson is actualized by an anonymous purchase and sale management server, a purchaser terminal device, a salesperson terminal device, an anonymous settlement server and an anonymous delivery system, all of which are linked together via a network. Herein, the anonymous purchase and sale management server activates a commodity sales processor and an analyzer in connection with a sales history storage device, a purchaser's preference storage device and a commodity information storage device. Receiving purchase request information from a purchaser terminal device, the commodity sales processor retrieves from all items of commodity information stored in the commodity information storage device, at least one item of the commodity information that suits to the purchase request information. The purchaser selects a desired item from the retrieved commodity information to send purchasing commodity specifying information to the server, wherein the commodity sales processor generates an order ID. A pair of the order ID and purchasing commodity specifying information are sent to the purchaser terminal device and salesperson terminal device, thus allowing payment of a value for the commodity over the anonymous settlement sever and delivery of the commodity over the anonymous delivery system in connection with the order ID. The purchasing commodity specifying information and purchase request information are respectively registered with the sales history storage device and purchaser's preference storage device for use in provision of information and analysis results for the salesperson.
United States Patent Application 20020156688 relates to a comprehensive system that effectuates global electronic commerce on the Internet across frontiers of nations, cultures, and languages. Referral Websites serving various locales offer Buyers the opportunity to view products for purchase. A Buyer selects categories of products for viewing by using drop-down menus that organize products into a clear taxonomy that can be expressed across all languages. Having selected a category of products for viewing, a Buyer receives, from a multi-version relational database, a version of marketing information about each product. The version is one automatically sent from the database to match the Buyer's language, culture, and nationality, as deduced from the use of a particular Referral Website. A
shopping cart allows Buyers to select a product for purchase in an interactive way that encourages completion of the purchase. Products can be offered with custom options and in wholesale quantities. Personalized Web pages allow comprehensive customer service after a sale.
United States Patent Application 20070088615 relates to a system and method that can provide a system and method that manage both an online store and physical stores utilizing dual-interfaces general-purpose computers. The present invention utilizes a centralized database for managing both an online store and physical stores. The management functionalities for the online store and the physical stores are integrated into one system. In order to utilize the benefits of both a general-purpose computer interface and a POS-style interface, and avoid their disadvantages at the same time, dual interfaces are used in the present invention. A POS-style interface is used to perform easy daily operations, while a general-purpose computer interface is used to perform complicated management tasks and other general-purpose computer tasks.
United States Patent Application 20020023009 provides a method of giving gifted goods utilizing communication networks in which gift senders or gift recipients register information on gift recipients related to gift recipients in the server of gift dealers handling gifts. Gift dealers handling gifts provide the information on preferable goods related to preferable gifted goods to gift senders based on the information on gift recipients. Gift senders select and give gifted goods to gift recipients based on the information on gift recipients. Based on the information on gift senders and gift recipients or the messages exchanged by users in the virtual space, the virtual stores are prepared, and by giving the gifted goods in the virtual space, the gifts are given in reality.
United States Patent Application No: 20020072974 discloses a ShopLive system that supports existing merchants and malls to better serve customers by providing easy access to merchandise and sales assistants over a communication network to display items and to provide expert information on products. The shopping experience is enhanced by tokens to allow ease of shopping and checkout. Items purchased that need installation or service or supported by accessing live experts.
Direct connection to service providers is available over the network. If a shopper does not find the desired merchandise they are referred to another merchant who has the product and the referring merchants receives a commission or other consideration.
United States Patent Application 20070186238 describes a system for providing first person, streamed video data to a prospective purchaser to create a realistic shopping experience on-line, consists of or includes receiving data from a user designating a shopping area, presenting to the user video data streams of the selected area, receiving navigation commands from the user to modify the streams, creating for the user the appearance of moving through the selected area, whereby the user may select a store, and likewise receive video data streams for shopping within the store, and for selecting products.
United States Patent Application No: 20040230676 discloses a knowledge network and semcards enabling intelligent matching of offers and requests, involving all types of information and knowledge, including information such as classified ads, data about products and services, or knowledge, expertise, ideas, suggestions, opinions, and other forms of tacit knowledge is described. The invention is capable of intelligent matching of offers and requests, involving all types of knowledge: information, ideas, suggestions, opinions, products, services, jobs, events, people, skills, etc, using semcards and semcard-like structures, creating a bi-directional marketplace on the Internet, desktop or intranet.
The invention enables parties to search and do marketing in the same way, in the same environment. A semcard can be designated as an offer or a request. When the semcard has been specified to the user's satisfaction it can be test-posted.
Using semantic routing, semcards that represent offers, requests, and queries, can be routed semantically between nodes on the network. The routing profile describes salient features of the semcard, as deemed necessary for supporting efficient routing of semcards. Collections of semcards can also be matched or compared in a knowledge network. Users can also create new semcard templates or extend the ontology, and share these extensions with other users in the network. In another aspect of the invention, the semcard management application provides statistics on phenomena such as supply and demand trends for particular types of offers, requests and semcards, number of users with a particular interest profiles, number of potential matches for particular advertisements, and distribution of the user population along multiple dimensions.
United States Patent Application No: 20040034607 describes trusted contract enforcement in the context of an electronic marketplace infrastructure. In particular, it describes the model and the component for mediated service delivery developed by the applicant. The presented solution is based on the concept of externalisation for service consumer views of the business processes of service providers.
United States Patent Application No: 20050171862 includes a method for transacting business over a network between multiple buyers and sellers. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention operates within an improved extranet system which is a secure, limited access network which operates within the larger public packet switched network (Intemet) and allows only registered buyers and sellers to access the website while the system communicates with, and takes advantage of, existing credit, billing, collection, clearinghouse, insurance, transportation, tracking and banking systems. The interactive database includes real-time information in connection with a transaction, where the buyer submits a request for product and the request for the product locks out the requested product from selection by any other buyers.
United States Patent Application No: 20050171862 discloses a system for enhancing trust in transactions, most particularly in remote transactions between a plurality of transactional parties, for instance a seller and buyer(s) of goods and/or services over a public computer network such as the internet. Trust is disclosed to be a multivalent commodity, in that the trust that is to be enhanced relates to information about the subject matter of the transactions (e.g., the suitability of the goods and services sold), the bona fides of the supplier of the goods and services, the appropriateness of a pricing structure for a particular transaction or series of transactions, a quantum of additional transactional value that may be imparted to the transactional relationship, security of information exchange, etc. An important contributor to trust for such aspects of the transaction is disclosed to be the use of highly-secure steganographic computer processing means for data identification, authentication, and transmission, such that confidence in the transaction components is enhanced. By providing an integrated multivalent system for enhancing trust across a variety of categories (for a variety of transaction species, including those in which the need for trust is greater on the part of one party than of another, as well as those in which both require substantial trust enhancement), the invention reduces barriers to forming and optimizing transactional relationships.
United States Patent No: 6,850,900 provides an internet based or locally hosted business to business full service secure commercial electronic marketplace which facilitates transactions between suppliers and buyers. The system transforms the suppliers' content into generic content and enables the suppliers to review, correct and update the supplier content. The system distributes the content back to the supplier and to selected buyers in a generic and usable format across multiple forums. The system further provides multiple levels of sourcing for the suppliers and buyers including a private on-contract sourcing level, a, private off-contract sourcing level, a private index off-contract sourcing level, a private supplier or seller sourcing level, a public buyer sourcing level, and content distribution for buy side sourcing levels, supply side sourcing levels, multi-buyer exchanges and multi-supplier exchanges.
However the online shopping model has a limited success while delivering the goods and customers are very often not satisfied for shopping using an online or internet system. For example, if the seller wants to access the online shopping portal he needs to go through a series of steps and get signed up to a new interface which actually allows him to access to a personalized control panel.
Again the current search techniques used by most online vendors require that the user input their entire search request, strike a key to indicate they've finished entering the search parameters, then wait for any possible matching products.
If there are no products, the consumer must try to create a new search request, and then wait again resulting in delay time.
Again the online shopping service is usually limited to a few goods and does not fulfill all the needs of the customer including need for various kinds of services.
Hence, the customer often is not satisfied in using the online shopping system.
Again the ambience of real stores and offices is not matched by the online shopping experience and certainly does not parallel the full sensory experience of visiting a real store or office.
There should be a utility model which makes very convenient and comprehensive search method and thus a common interface for linking both the sellers and buyers by simply using the personalized domain name to directly access the online virtual office/store.
Thus even though the existing variations of online shopping are not without merit, the present variations of online shopping have one or more significant drawbacks, such as search methodology and data access limitations, disjointed information presentation, or the like. In these situations and with the current technology, additional opportunities for the streamlined processing of online shopping transactions are similarly limited and lack significant potential for growth and widespread adoption. In order to improve the customer satisfaction in the electronic commerce there is a need for an improved and more flexible item delivery system. There is a further need for an improved and more flexible delivery or service window capability. Additionally, there is a need in the art for a visual presentation of the shops and offices that offer their good and services online in the online shopping portal.
Summary of Invention:
The invention described herein describes a method that provides worldwide business promotion & accessibility.
Generally speaking, exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for maintaining portable virtual offices & stores by i) constructing a product and service database systematically and in real time, in such a manner that a user interface for inputting product and service information systematically is provided to a seller / subscriber and procedures of registering the product or service are performed and ii) if the product or service is selected by a buyer, reflecting information associated with the seller or the product or service in the product database systematically and in real time.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is a method and system for minimal cost (subscription fee for online virtual offices &
store) involved in the process and minimal time spent, unlike physical offices &
stores.
A further embodiment of the present invention provide a method and system that involves a very convenient & comprehensive search method by using the online shopping portal's geographic index & product categories to locate existing online virtual offices, stores and products in any desired city.
Yet another embodiment of the present invention provide a method and system for that enables enhanced suitability for practicing business persons and professionals to conduct business due to elaborate search tools and interactive features.
Detailed Description of the Invention The description of the invention is presented to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the invention, and the working of the invention is displayed as follows.
The present invention comprises two essential requirements for the actual functioning of the invention and they are the seller/subscriber and the buyer.
The seller I subscriber 1. Signs up - As the present invention relates to the online shopping market, the seller who wants to do business through the internet has to sign up on the online shopping portal.
2. Gets access to a personalized control panel to customize the online virtual office & store - The seller will be provided with username and password of his choice, and after the sign up process is over he gets access to a personalized control panel.
3. Receives a subdomain or a nonexclusive domain name ( online office & store number), to access the online office or store - the subscriber/seller receives either a subdomain or a nonexclusive domain name (both domains are added with online office or store numbers and integrated with the main domain name of the website), to access the online ofrice or store - the seller will be provided with a subdomain or nonexclusive domain in the personalized control panel and this will allow the seller and the buyer a direct access to the online virtual office or store with out the search method. also the seller may use a pre-owned exclusive domain name or numbers to access online virtual office and store, but at the same time the exclusive domain name or numbers will be redirected to the subdomain or nonexclusive domain (describe above) of the website 4. Edits and customizes the online office or store and uploads images & videos -After receiving the personalized domain name from the online shopping portal the seller/subscriber can do any kind of designs works, post product or service information or can edit and customize his virtual office and store. The product or service information may include information on a price or fees of the product or service, a category thereof, image data thereof, whether an after-sale service thereof is paid or free, size or color thereof, the number thereof, a delivery method thereof and a registration date thereof and whether a gift or a point is offered to a purchaser of the product or service, a payment method of the product or service (whether a credit card or a payment by installment is available) and the like.
Designing the virtual office and store by using and choosing different colors and shades provided in the personalized control panel and similarly editing part like editing the business and personal profile and descriptions of products and services and providing contact information such as address, phone etc., and all these newly edited items will be displayed in the online virtual office and store.
Similarly customizing the size, style and color of the fonts, rewriting of profiles, products and services, re uploading the images and videos and changing the colors and shades of online virtual office and store can also be done. And all these works can be done by using the demo and instructions provided in the personalized control panel.
5. Chooses desired country, city and product category - The seller/subscriber chooses the country, city location from a provided list of countries and cities for online virtual office and store. After selecting the country and city location the seller/subscriber has. to select the product category. The proceeding online shopping portal offers its five main categories such as Health business education, professional entertainment and each of these categories has its sub categories such as doctor, lawyer, tutor, DJ, etc., to select from the listed events, the seller may select numerous product categories that are relating to his business.
Generally this process of choosing of country, city and product category will allow and assist the buyer/public to search effectively and also helps to locate the online virtual offices and stores by using the the online shopping portal's geographic index and product categories. For instance if a seller/subscriber selects the country of USA, the fields may be displayed as CITY-NEWYORK, CATEGORY-BUSINESS, SUBCATEGORY-TEXTILES & PERFUMES.
Similarly when a buyer/public from India or abroad searches for textiles and perfumes in USA - NEWYORK, it will give a link to the seller/subscriber's virtual office or store which would show up among the other results for online virtual office and stores.
After subscription, the online office or store become viewable for the buyer /
public on the online shopping portal, however, since the sign up is free, the online office or store can be designed , edited and customized within the personal control panel after just signing up. After the subscription process as described above becomes viewable to public, the seller I subscriber call seli products and services, choose the payment and shipping method by mutual agreement between buyer and seller.
The buyer:
1. Logs into the online shopping portal and searches for online office or store through the geographic index. The buyer also can directly access the online office or store (with out the search method) by simply using the sub domain and exclusive domain name provided to seller/subscriber by the online shopping portal after signing up, that can be provided to buyer / public by the seller /
subscriber.
2. Selects a product or service category - The online shopping portal search enables the buyer to search for the product or service by a keyword-oriented searching method. In case that a search query is received as above, the online shopping portal searches for a product or service corresponding to the search query and generates a search result list for the searched product or service.
3. Receives the search results for existing online offices or stores to choose from In future, there is a great potential for this business method to become an organized and comprehensive search facility (online virtual offices & stores directory) for consumers to locate the national and international online virtual offices & stores that offer all the main business within the online shopping portal.
In this application, the terminology `embodiment' can be used to describe any aspect, feature, process or step, any combination thereof, and/or any portion thereof, etc. While the invention has been described in connection with specific embodiments thereof, it will be understood that it is capable of further modifications and this application is intended to cover any variations, uses or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains and may be applied to the essential features hereinbefore set forth.
Generally this process of choosing of country, city and product category will allow and assist the buyer/public to search effectively and also helps to locate the online virtual offices and stores by using the the online shopping portal's geographic index and product categories. For instance if a seller/subscriber selects the country of USA, the fields may be displayed as CITY-NEWYORK, CATEGORY-BUSINESS, SUBCATEGORY-TEXTILES & PERFUMES.
Similarly when a buyer/public from India or abroad searches for textiles and perfumes in USA - NEWYORK, it will give a link to the seller/subscriber's virtual office or store which would show up among the other results for online virtual office and stores.
After subscription, the online office or store become viewable for the buyer /
public on the online shopping portal, however, since the sign up is free, the online office or store can be designed , edited and customized within the personal control panel after just signing up. After the subscription process as described above becomes viewable to public, the seller I subscriber call seli products and services, choose the payment and shipping method by mutual agreement between buyer and seller.
The buyer:
1. Logs into the online shopping portal and searches for online office or store through the geographic index. The buyer also can directly access the online office or store (with out the search method) by simply using the sub domain and exclusive domain name provided to seller/subscriber by the online shopping portal after signing up, that can be provided to buyer / public by the seller /
subscriber.
2. Selects a product or service category - The online shopping portal search enables the buyer to search for the product or service by a keyword-oriented searching method. In case that a search query is received as above, the online shopping portal searches for a product or service corresponding to the search query and generates a search result list for the searched product or service.
3. Receives the search results for existing online offices or stores to choose from In future, there is a great potential for this business method to become an organized and comprehensive search facility (online virtual offices & stores directory) for consumers to locate the national and international online virtual offices & stores that offer all the main business within the online shopping portal.
In this application, the terminology `embodiment' can be used to describe any aspect, feature, process or step, any combination thereof, and/or any portion thereof, etc. While the invention has been described in connection with specific embodiments thereof, it will be understood that it is capable of further modifications and this application is intended to cover any variations, uses or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains and may be applied to the essential features hereinbefore set forth.
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1. Logs into the online shopping portal and searches for online office or store through the geographic index. The buyer also can directly access the online office or store (with out the search method) by simply using the sub domain and exclusive domain name provided to seller/subscriber by the online shopping portal after signing up, that can be provided to buyer / public by the seller /
subscriber.
subscriber.
2. Selects a product or service category - The online shopping portal search enables the buyer to search for the product or service by a keyword-oriented searching method. In case that a search query is received as above, the online shopping portal searches for a product or service corresponding to the search query and generates a search result list for the searched product or service.
3. Receives the search results for existing online offices or stores to choose from the website home page. The selected product and shop's web link will be provided in the web pages which the customers can easily access to the link.
The product which the customer buys online can be home delivered.
In future, there is a great potential for this business method to become an organized and comprehensive search facility (online virtual offices & stores directory) for consumers to locate the national and international online virtual offices & stores that offer all the main business within the online shopping portal.
In this application, the terminology 'embodiment' can be used to describe any aspect, feature, process or step, any combination thereof, and/or any portion thereof, etc. While the invention has been described in connection with specific embodiments thereof, it will be understood that it is capable of further modifications and this application is intended to cover any variations, uses or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains and may be applied to the essential features hereinbefore set forth.
The product which the customer buys online can be home delivered.
In future, there is a great potential for this business method to become an organized and comprehensive search facility (online virtual offices & stores directory) for consumers to locate the national and international online virtual offices & stores that offer all the main business within the online shopping portal.
In this application, the terminology 'embodiment' can be used to describe any aspect, feature, process or step, any combination thereof, and/or any portion thereof, etc. While the invention has been described in connection with specific embodiments thereof, it will be understood that it is capable of further modifications and this application is intended to cover any variations, uses or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains and may be applied to the essential features hereinbefore set forth.
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