US 11,989,771 B2
Systems and methods of group electronic commerce and distribution of items
Ari Daie, New York, NY (US); Eric Chu, Madison, NJ (US); Roman Gun, Brooklyn, NY (US); Chinmay Bijwe, Jersey City, NJ (US); Michael McFarland, Boulder, CO (US); Dorian Bullerwell, Northglenn, CO (US); Kyle Unverferth, Lakewood, CO (US); Himanshu Kothari, New York, NY (US); Sagar Singh, Edison, NJ (US); and Adeesha Ekanayake-Weber, Bayside, NY (US)
Assigned to Fevo, Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed by Fevo, Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed on Jun. 15, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/902,165.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/861,824, filed on Jun. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0394705 A1, Dec. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0643 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. In a system for managing a universal ecommerce cart for facilitating selecting items by a group of orderers joining the group at different times, comprising:
a commerce engine configured to receive a token through an application programming interface, wherein when the token is received, the commerce engine generates a universal shopping cart associated with an orderer via the token;
wherein the commerce engine communicates with a computing device of the orderer via the token from within a vendor page of a vendor application through the application programming interface, and wherein the token is configured to link to a web application to dynamically rewrite the vendor page to provide the universal shopping cart having an offer for the items associated with the vendor application, wherein the commerce engine is configured to provide a graphical user interface illustrating the universal shopping cart having the offer;
wherein the commerce engine is further configured to generate a unique identifier for the universal shopping cart associated with the orderer comprising the present state of the universal cart;
wherein the commerce engine is configured to generate a link to the universal shopping cart to enable an additional orderer to receive a notification of the offer in the universal shopping cart, and wherein the commerce engine is configured to add the additional orderer to the group of orderers based on a response from the additional orderer to the notification;
wherein the graphical user interface is configured to display the universal shopping cart having the offer to the additional orderer when the commerce engine receives a response to the notification from the additional orderer, wherein the graphical user interface displays the items within the universal shopping cart and grants access the additional orderer access to select one or more of the items therein;
wherein the commerce engine comprises a commerce database configured to store information on the orderer and/or the additional orderer, wherein the graphical user interface enables the orderer and/or the additional orderer to interact with and elicit feedback from other orderers,
wherein the system further comprises an inventory manager operatively connected to a vendor associated with the one or more items in the universal shopping cart having the offer, and
wherein the commerce engine is configured to send an instruction to the inventory manager to reserve a selected item of the one or more of the items upon receiving a selection from the orderer and/or the additional orderer.