公开(公告)号：US07013286B1

公开(公告)日：2006-03-14

申请号：US09475217

申请日：1999-12-30

申请人： Alok Aggarwal ,  Rahul Garg ,  Parul Alok Mittal ,  Natwar Modani

发明人： Alok Aggarwal ,  Rahul Garg ,  Parul Alok Mittal ,  Natwar Modani

IPC分类号： G06F17/60

CPC分类号： G07F17/42 ,  G06Q20/045 ,  G06Q20/387 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0225

摘要： A method and system generates, distributes, stores, redeems, validates and clears electronic manufacturer coupons and electronic store coupons. A coupon mint generates unforgable blank digital coupons. The promoter of the offer then writes the terms and conditions and other details of the offer, on blank coupons to customize these. These customized coupons are digitally signed by the promoter and distributed to potential customers. A customer may either present these coupons electronically for redemption to an online store, or print these coupons and present them to a conventional offline store. The store may check the authenticity of a coupon by verifying the digital signature and also verifying if the coupon has not been used earlier by contacting a verification center. The store collects all redeemed coupons and sends these to manufacturer for clearing. The verification center verifies that the coupon is authentic and has not already been used before.

摘要翻译： 方法和系统生成，分销，存储，赎回，验证和清除电子制造商优惠券和电子商店优惠券。 优惠券薄荷产生不可阻挡的空白数位优惠券。 报价的推动者随后将空白优惠券的条款和条件以及报价的其他细节写入定制。 这些定制优惠券由促销者数字签名并分发给潜在客户。 客户可以以电子方式将这些优惠券呈现给在线商店，或者打印这些优惠券并将其呈现给传统的离线商店。 商店可以通过验证数字签名来检查优惠券的真实性，还可以通过联系验证中心来验证优惠券是否更早被使用。 商店收集所有兑换的优惠券，并将其发送给制造商清算。 验证中心验证优惠券是否可信，以前尚未使用。

公开(公告)号：US06571216B1

公开(公告)日：2003-05-27

申请号：US09483603

申请日：2000-01-14

申请人： Rahul Garg ,  Parul Alok Mittal ,  Natwar Modani

发明人： Rahul Garg ,  Parul Alok Mittal ,  Natwar Modani

IPC分类号： G06F1760

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0224 ,  G06Q30/0239

摘要： A methodology and system allows a plurality of reward scheme owners to give differential rewards, through a plurality of reward distribution agents, to various users based on the user profile. The reward scheme owner may be a seller, a manufacturer, a sales promotion agent or even an intermediary. Similarly, the reward distribution agent may be an on-line or a physical retailer, a broker, a seller or an intermediary. Also the users may be consumers, businesses, brokers or other intermediaries. In one specific case, a reward scheme owner defines a plurality of reward schemes, including at least one differential reward scheme giving different rewards to different users. The reward scheme owner communicates these to a central reward scheme database server. The reward scheme owners may or may not advertise these schemes. The user visits an online or a physical store. The store acting as a reward distribution agent dynamically profiles the user, queries the central reward scheme database server if the user profile meets the criterion for one or more rewards and offers the applicable rewards to the user. The store later receives reimbursement for the rewards offered to various users, from the reward scheme owners. This methodology and system may be used for offering targeted or differential discounts on different products and services, offering different promotional schemes on different combination of products, giving loyalty points, electronically distributing prizes, free samples, product warranties, tie-in promotions, cross selling, up selling, premiums, memberships, card discounts, organizing contests, sweepstakes, games and offering other similar rewards.

摘要翻译： 一种方法和系统允许多个奖励计划所有者通过多个奖励分发代理根据用户简档给予各种用户不同的奖励。 奖励计划所有者可以是卖家，制造商，促销代理或甚至中介。 类似地，奖励分发代理可以是在线或实体零售商，经纪人，卖方或中介。 用户也可能是消费者，企业，经纪人或其他中间商。 在一个具体情况下，奖励计划所有者定义了多个奖励方案，包括给予不同用户不同奖励的至少一个差别奖赏方案。 奖励计划所有者将其传达给中央奖励计划数据库服务器。 奖励计划所有人可能会也可能不会宣传这些计划。 用户访问在线或实体店。 作为奖励分发代理的商店动态地描述用户，如果用户简档满足一个或多个奖励的标准并向用户提供适用的奖励，则查询中央奖励方案数据库服务器。 该商店随后从奖励计划所有者收到向各种用户提供的奖励的报销。 该方法和系统可用于为不同的产品和服务提供有针对性的或差异化的折扣，为不同的产品组合提供不同的促销方案，提供积分，电子分发奖品，免费样品，产品保证，促销活动，交叉销售 ，销售，保费，会员卡，卡片折扣，组织比赛，抽奖，游戏，并提供其他类似的奖励。

公开(公告)号：US06886000B1

公开(公告)日：2005-04-26

申请号：US09407434

申请日：1999-09-29

申请人： Alok Aggarwal ,  Parul Alok Mittal

发明人： Alok Aggarwal ,  Parul Alok Mittal

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G06F17/60

CPC分类号： G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/08 ,  G06Q50/188

摘要： An e-commerce mechanism tries to dynamically estimate or refine a profile of a buyer and hence change their negotiation strategy in a dynamic and an on-line manner. An e-commerce site can negotiate with a customer based on his or her profile. The e-commerce site may sell one or more types of items to various customers. These customers may be brokers, other intermediaries, businesses or consumers. Similarly, the e-commerce site may be a broker, an auctioneer, an intermediary, a seller, or even a manufacturer. In one specific case of this invention, the existing data on various customers' past purchases, buying behavior, demographics and other parameters is studied to arrive at attributes which are then used to segment customers into various profiles. The profiles depend not only on the demographic factors but also on factors like the season, the time of day, the geographical area and the cultural upbringing. When a new customer comes to the e-commerce site, the customer is assigned to a pre-specified profile in an on-line manner. The e-commerce site then negotiates with the customer according to the customer's present profile. As the customer negotiates, the customer's profile is dynamically updated to incorporate the customer's actions. Different profiles may yield different negotiation strategies and also different results, i.e., value, price, points, delivery dates, etc. Both the customer and the e-commerce site can negotiate on the basis of each other's dynamic profiles and come to a mutually agreed settlement.

摘要翻译： 电子商务机制试图动态地估计或改进买方的资料，从而以动态和在线的方式改变他们的谈判策略。 电子商务网站可以根据他或她的个人资料与客户进行协商。 电子商务网站可能会向各种客户销售一种或多种类型的商品。 这些客户可能是经纪人，其他中间商，企业或消费者。 类似地，电子商务网站可以是经纪人，拍卖人，中间商，卖方，甚至制造商。 在本发明的一个具体情况下，研究了关于各种客户过去购买，购买行为，人口统计学和其他参数的现有数据，以获得随后用于将客户分成各种简档的属性。 简介不仅取决于人口因素，还依赖于季节，时间，地理区域和文化养育等因素。 当新客户来到电子商务网站时，客户将被分配到一个预先指定的配置文件中。 然后，电子商务网站将根据客户现在的情况与客户进行协商。 客户协商后，客户的配置文件将被动态更新，以纳入客户的行为。 不同的配置文件可能产生不同的协商策略，也可能产生不同的结果，即价值，价格，点数，交货日期等。客户和电子商务网站都可以基于彼此的动态配置文件进行协商，并达成共同商定 沉降。

公开(公告)号：US20080183668A1

公开(公告)日：2008-07-31

申请号：US12061756

申请日：2008-04-03

申请人： Anuradha Bhamidipaty ,  Vibha S. Sinha ,  Parul Alok Mittal

发明人： Anuradha Bhamidipaty ,  Vibha S. Sinha ,  Parul Alok Mittal

IPC分类号： G06F7/02 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F11/079 ,  G06F11/0706 ,  G06F17/30663 ,  G06F17/30672

摘要： A user interface component receives an input error message. A query enhancer component derives error messages from the input error messages using error pattern(s) representative of the input error message and error sub-pattern(s) of the error pattern(s). A result aggregator component inputs each error message to search engines, receives search results, aggregates the search results, and provides the search results to the user interface. The enhancer component may include a pattern composer component to locate error patterns representative of the input error message, and a sub-pattern generator component to derive error sub-patterns from the error patterns. The aggregator component may determine whether the search results are in agreement with a predetermined criterion. If not, the aggregator component may request the enhancer component to provide additional error messages to input to the search engines. This process can be iteratively repeated until the search results are in agreement with the predetermined criterion.

摘要翻译： 用户界面组件接收输入错误消息。 查询增强器组件使用表示错误模式的输入错误消息和错误子模式的错误模式从输入错误消息中导出错误消息。 结果聚合器组件将每个错误消息输入到搜索引擎，接收搜索结果，聚合搜索结果，并将搜索结果提供给用户界面。 增强器组件可以包括用于定位表示输入错误消息的错误模式的模式组合器组件以及从模式错误导出误差子模式的子模式生成器组件。 聚合器组件可以确定搜索结果是否与预定标准一致。 如果不是，则聚合器组件可以请求增强器组件提供附加的错误消息以输入到搜索引擎。 可以迭代地重复该过程，直到搜索结果与预定标准一致。

公开(公告)号：US07873898B2

公开(公告)日：2011-01-18

申请号：US12061756

申请日：2008-04-03

申请人： Anuradha Bhamidipaty ,  Vibha S. Sinha ,  Parul Alok Mittal

发明人： Anuradha Bhamidipaty ,  Vibha S. Sinha ,  Parul Alok Mittal

IPC分类号： G06F11/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/079 ,  G06F11/0706 ,  G06F17/30663 ,  G06F17/30672

摘要： A user interface component receives an input error message. A query enhancer component derives error messages from the input error messages using error pattern(s) representative of the input error message and error sub-pattern(s) of the error pattern(s). A result aggregator component inputs each error message to search engines, receives search results, aggregates the search results, and provides the search results to the user interface. The enhancer component may include a pattern composer component to locate error patterns representative of the input error message, and a sub-pattern generator component to derive error sub-patterns from the error patterns. The aggregator component may determine whether the search results are in agreement with a predetermined criterion. If not, the aggregator component may request the enhancer component to provide additional error messages to input to the search engines. This process can be iteratively repeated until the search results are in agreement with the predetermined criterion.

摘要翻译： 用户界面组件接收输入错误消息。 查询增强器组件使用表示错误模式的输入错误消息和错误子模式的错误模式从输入错误消息中导出错误消息。 结果聚合器组件将每个错误消息输入到搜索引擎，接收搜索结果，聚合搜索结果，并将搜索结果提供给用户界面。 增强器组件可以包括用于定位表示输入错误消息的错误模式的模式组合器组件以及从模式错误导出误差子模式的子模式生成器组件。 聚合器组件可以确定搜索结果是否与预定标准一致。 如果不是，则聚合器组件可以请求增强器组件提供附加的错误消息以输入到搜索引擎。 可以迭代地重复该过程，直到搜索结果与预定标准一致。

公开(公告)号：US07823053B2

公开(公告)日：2010-10-26

申请号：US11612921

申请日：2006-12-19

申请人： Anuradha Bhamidipaty ,  Vibha S Sinha ,  Parul Alok Mittal

发明人： Anuradha Bhamidipaty ,  Vibha S Sinha ,  Parul Alok Mittal

IPC分类号： G06F11/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/079 ,  G06F11/0706 ,  G06F17/30663 ,  G06F17/30672

摘要： A user interface component receives an input error message. A query enhancer component derives error messages from the input error messages using error pattern(s) representative of the input error message and error sub-pattern(s) of the error pattern(s). A result aggregator component inputs each error message to search engines, receives search results, aggregates the search results, and provides the search results to the user interface. The enhancer component may include a pattern composer component to locate error patterns representative of the input error message, and a sub-pattern generator component to derive error sub-patterns from the error patterns. The aggregator component may determine whether the search results are in agreement with a predetermined criterion. If not, the aggregator component may request the enhancer component to provide additional error messages to input to the search engines. This process can be iteratively repeated until the search results are in agreement with the predetermined criterion.

摘要翻译： 用户界面组件接收输入错误消息。 查询增强器组件使用表示错误模式的输入错误消息和错误子模式的错误模式从输入错误消息中导出错误消息。 结果聚合器组件将每个错误消息输入到搜索引擎，接收搜索结果，聚合搜索结果，并将搜索结果提供给用户界面。 增强器组件可以包括用于定位表示输入错误消息的错误模式的模式组合器组件以及从模式错误导出误差子模式的子模式生成器组件。 聚合器组件可以确定搜索结果是否与预定标准一致。 如果不是，则聚合器组件可以请求增强器组件提供附加的错误消息以输入到搜索引擎。 可以迭代地重复该过程，直到搜索结果与预定标准一致。

公开(公告)号：US20080148110A1

公开(公告)日：2008-06-19

申请号：US11612921

申请日：2006-12-19

申请人： Anuradha Bhamidipaty ,  Vibha S. Sinha ,  Parul Alok Mittal

发明人： Anuradha Bhamidipaty ,  Vibha S. Sinha ,  Parul Alok Mittal

IPC分类号： G06F11/32

CPC分类号： G06F11/079 ,  G06F11/0706 ,  G06F17/30663 ,  G06F17/30672

摘要： A user interface component receives an input error message. A query enhancer component derives error messages from the input error messages using error pattern(s) representative of the input error message and error sub-pattern(s) of the error pattern(s). A result aggregator component inputs each error message to search engines, receives search results, aggregates the search results, and provides the search results to the user interface. The enhancer component may include a pattern composer component to locate error patterns representative of the input error message, and a sub-pattern generator component to derive error sub-patterns from the error patterns. The aggregator component may determine whether the search results are in agreement with a predetermined criterion. If not, the aggregator component may request the enhancer component to provide additional error messages to input to the search engines. This process can be iteratively repeated until the search results are in agreement with the predetermined criterion.