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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2010
Subil M. Abraham, Plano, TX (US);
Rajaraman Hariharan, Chennai, IN;
Ramakrishnan Kannan, Bangalore, IN;
Mathews Thomas, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Subil M. Abraham, Plano, TX (US);
Rajaraman Hariharan, Chennai, IN;
Ramakrishnan Kannan, Bangalore, IN;
Mathews Thomas, Flower Mound, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A collaborative shopping group can be established within a social networking web site. This initially established group can consist of individuals with whom the establishing user has a social networking affiliation. After an initial establishment of the collaborative shopping group, each individual within the group is able to add additional individuals to the collaborative shopping group. A shared shopping cart can be established for the collaborative shopping group. A set of different members of the collaborative shopping group can individually and independently add items from a set of different e-commerce sites to the shared shopping cart. An e-commerce purchase of items in the shared shopping cart can be completed. The completed e-commerce purchase can receive a transaction discount greater than or equal to a sum of discounts that would have resulted from discrete purchases of the items of the shared shopping cart by the individuals of the collaborative shopping group.