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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2009
Applicants:
Patrick Grady, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark Orttung, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Patrick Grady, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark Orttung, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Rearden Commerce, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
System and method for availability based on limited-time offerings and transactions. One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method that, based on a set of known preferences and historic transactions with customers, culls from a customer database those customers most likely to close a transaction in a short time. The selected customers are notified of the offer, and the system processes the customers responses in a timely manner, and thus allow fleeting inventories to be sold off before they expire.