Electronic shopping system utilizing multiple configurable item orders

US9928535B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• WAL-MART STORES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Vivek Kumar · Foster City, US
• Dinesh Amarnath Rao Pise · Bengaluru, IN
• Preetam Purbia · Udaipur, IN
• Praveen Deverachetty · Bengaluru, IN
• Vibhor Rastogi · Redwood City, US
• Soumya Ranjan Mohanty · Cuttack, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2013
• Grant date: Mar 27, 2018
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0633
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic shopping system, such as an ecommerce retail website, is constructed and programmed to provide online shoppers with the ability to create and manage multiple configurable item orders contemporaneously within a single customer account. Each item in an item order is associated with a “purchase status” which can, in addition to other discrete adjustments, be toggled between “active” and “inactive” states at or before checkout. Each item order is itself configurable in respect of delivery address, payment source, frequency, and schedule. Orders and settings are saved within the customer's account to be recalled, reviewed, refined (if desired), and executed at checkout.