Judul PI :
Pembuatan Website E-Commerce Bunga Buket Jansflo
Journal 2 :
METHOD FOR RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF
SCHEDULE CONTROLED NETWORKABLE
MERCHANT ECOMMERCE SITES
Abstract :
An improved
computerized ecommerce method, optimized for smaller merchants such as florists
who often provide seasonal perishable gifts that require local delivery, and
who often desire to form cooperative networks with local mer chants offering
related gift services, as well as other related merchants such as other
florists in more distant locations. The web server based method allows
merchants to easily set up non-static (time variable) websites that
automatically provide schedule driven promotions. New products can be quickly
uploaded from Smartphones, and Sophisticated time and location aware algorithms
can compute accurate deliv ery costs and make Such costs transparent to
customers. Other participating merchants can be easily added to the system to form
local and distant cooperative merchant networks. The system simplifies customer
use of promo tional offers by cross checking customer URL versus pro motion
lists. Recipient gift appreciation is optimized by providing interfaces to
allow customer designed gift cards and messages.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Natarajan, Sundar (as
WebSlides), “FremontFlowers”. Apple app released on iTunes by Inventor on Jan.
28, 2014. http://itunes.apple. com/us/app/fremontflowers/id889066844?mt=8.
(Continued) Primary Examiner — Vanel Frenel (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Stephen
E. Zweig (57)
METHOD FOR RAPID
DEVELOPMENT OF SCHEDULE CONTROLED NETWORKABLE MERCHANT ECOMMERCE SITES
CROSS REFERENCE TO
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims
the priority benefit of U.S. pro visional application 61/807,214, “METHOD FOR
RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF SCHEDULE CONTROLLED NET WORKABLE MERCHANT ECOMMERCE SITES,
inventor Sundaram Natarajan, filed Apr. 1, 2013; the com plete contents of
which are incorporated herein by reference.
BACKGROUND OF THE
INVENTION
Field of the Invention This invention is in the field of internet web
server facilitated ecommerce and mobile ecommerce apps for handheld
computerized devices. Description of the Related Art As internet technology has
advanced, more and more commerce is done using computerized devices that
connect with various commerce computerized data servers, often web servers,
over the internet. Such internet facilitated commerce services are generally
referred to as ecommerce. Although many large corporations, such as Amazon.com,
eBay, and the like have transformed commerce through the use of large scale
banks of servers, which offer a large range of online products, certain areas
of commerce have not advanced as quickly. In particular, Smaller scale local
mer chants such as florists, bakers, party supply vendors, and the like, who
often may offer local delivery of various perish able products such as flowers
and perishable foods, often for gift purposes, have been less well served. As a
result, often these various local merchants must expend a considerable amount
of time, energy, and money creating and updating their own individual ecommerce
web sites. To assist in this process, certain prior art ecommerce Software
packages, such as the open source OsCommerce(R) system, and other systems such
as Magento (R), are available that provide a prefabricated software ecommerce
framework for merchants to set up their own online ecommerce sys tems. However
these prior art prefabricated ecommerce framework software systems still
require a considerable amount of customization to optimize. Indeed they are
often so complex that usually use of skilled programmers is required to produce
good results. An additional problem that various local merchants, in particular
gift merchants such as florists, have is that there is often a need for
merchants in one geographic area to cooperate with merchants from another
geographic area. Such merchants may have loyal local customers that tend to
assume that the merchant has an ability to extend its local services further than
may actually be the case, and who turn to the local merchant for assistance for
things such as delivering gifts to more distant locations. Thus, for example,
in many third party beneficiary con tracts such as gifts, a customer/buyer may
wish to work with a local florist to arrange for a more distant florist to
deliver a gift of flowers to a third party beneficiary type recipient Such as a
relative, friend, or business associate. In an effort to meet these consumer
expectations, some local merchants such as florists sign up for relatively high
overhead services, such as FTD florist, that allow the florists and their
customers to access a central website, and contract with florists located
closer to the recipients location to deliver a standardized series of floral
arrangements. How ever Such services come at a cost. Because only a limited
range of Standardized floral arrangements are made avail able, it is all too
often the case that the florists that happen to be located near the delivery
area cannot or would prefer not to deliver the advertised floral arrangements.
Further, the prior art delivery charge methods tended to hide the true costs of
delivery from the customer, and also tended to impose unrealistic delivery cost
expectations on the delivery florist. Thus further improvements in the area of
ecommerce technology, in particular for local merchants such as florists that
provide gift type perishable products that may also have to be delivered, would
be desirable.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF
THE INVENTION
As previously
discussed, the invention is designed to allow rapid setup and modification of
ecommerce websites, particularly ecommerce websites optimized for the unique
needs of local merchants who deliver perishable products and gifts, such as
florists, bakers, and the like. The invention is designed so that it can be
easily used by users with minimal computer and programming skills. The system
is further designed so that merchants can maintain the system using only
standard web browsers, and apps running on standard handheld internet connected
computerized devices Such as Smartphones (e.g. the popular iPhone Android
series phones), tablet computers, laptop computers, desktop com puters, and the
like. Some of the novel aspects of the system, as previously discussed, include
calendar based automatic website updates, a more Sophisticated delivery cost
estimation engine, an ability for merchants to add new products to their
ecommerce sites, using simple to use Smartphone apps, in only a few minutes,
easy formation of ecommerce networks with other participating merchants,
simplified, no customer effort, promotional code system, improved recipient
deliv ery time and gift customization, easy customer gift card customization,
and other improvements to be discussed. Additional aspects also include
automated search engine optimization features, ability to automatically manage
mul tiple merchant "echo’ ecommerce websites, and ability to automatically
push product updates to various Social media sites
References Cited
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Natarajan, Sundar (as
WebSlides), “Gotflowers' Apple app released on iTunes by Inventor on May 7,
2013 https://itunes.apple. com/us/app/gotflowers/id634194338?mt=8. * cited by
examiner
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