DESC:FORM 2
THE PATENTS ACT, 1970
(39 of 1970)
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THE PATENTS RULES, 2003
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
(See section 10, rule 13)

“A Method and System for facilitating a communication between a retailer and a buyer for a sale of product/s at a discounted offer over a platform”

By

Charies APP Private Limited
An Indian Company
Address at: No.26, 30. 5th cross, DBY Layout, Lourd Nagara Basavanapura, Seegehalli, Battarahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560049

The following specification particularly describes the invention and the manner in which it is to be performed.
Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to facilitate the communication between a retailer and a buyer for a sale of product/s. In particular, the present invention relates to methods and system where the retailer provide one or more offers to a product to one or more buyer’s using a communication network.

Background of the Invention
Typically, a buyer visits one or more retailers to shop for a product. When the buyer finds the product he or she is looking for, at a reasonable price, the buyer purchases the product from the retailer. This traditional method of providing products to buyers, however, may require that the buyer visit a number of retailers to determine what should be considered a reasonable price for the product.
Moreover, the traditional method of selling a product to a buyer requires that a retailer attract buyers, such as by spending money on advertising. For example, when a new retail store opens for business, many buyers will not know what products the store sells. In addition, traditional methods do not let a product manufacturer establish a pricing relationship directly with buyers when the product is provided to buyers through one or more retailers. For example, a manufacturer may sell a product to a retailer (perhaps through a distributor) that ultimately decides the price at which the product is sold to buyers.
Recently, products have been sold to buyers through communication networks, such as with online transactions completed through the Internet. Internet sales have been growing steadily over the past few years, and are expected to continue increasing because buyers are attracted to the ease and convenience of shopping online. For example, a buyer can shop online from the comfort of home at any time of the day or night. Another advantage of online shopping is that pricing comparisons are less time consuming. For example, a Web service can compile prices from various sources (e.g., Web merchants and/or retail stores that are not online) for various products. This lets a buyer easily find and select, for example, a retail store that offers the lowest price for a product. Although this will save a buyer time, only regular retail prices (which the buyer would eventually be able to find without the Web site) are typically reported without providing any other pricing advantage. As price information becomes more accessible, buyers are growing more price sensitive and demand that products be sold at lower prices.
There are several disadvantages associated with the online shopping, one example, with respect to a buyer, the disadvantage of online shopping is the delay involved with receiving a product. The buyer is more likely to impulsively purchase a product when he or she can take immediate possession of the product (instead of waiting several days for delivery). In other words, a buyer who wants a product immediately is likely to visit a retailer and not buy the product online.
However, when a buyer wants to purchases a product with the comparable price of the online shopping, the retailers have to attract with many deals in order to retain the buyer for future purchase also. In the light of retailer’s competition, the buyers are in more anxiety in selecting the best retailer who is giving a best deal of the concern product. Even though, through reference, buyer may get some information about the offers at a particular retailer, but the same retailers is not in reachable distance.
Therefore, a need exists for further a platform for a system and method which facilitates the communication between a retailer and a buyer for a sale of product/s, where the retailer provide one or more offers to the product to the buyer using a communication network.

Summary of the Invention
An aspect of the present invention is to address at least the above-mentioned problems and/or disadvantages and to provide at least the advantages described below.
Accordingly, in one aspect of the present invention provides a method for facilitating a communication between a retailer and a buyer for a sale of product/s at a discounted offer over a platform. The method including the step of establishing a relationship with the retailer and buyer by registering at the platform, where the relationship including receiving information from the retailer pertaining to goods, buyers location information, and the retailers location information, allowing the retailer to add a plurality of goods along with the offer for a particular day and time, allowing the buyer to view all the goods of the retailer, wherein the buyer is able to view all the goods of one or more of the retailers who are all in the same or nearby geographical region of the buyer, triggering a notification to the retailers along with the information of the buyer who have viewed the goods of the corresponding retailer, initiating a communication to the buyer to provide more insight information about the goods and also to get a confirmation of the order, if any and dispatching the goods to the buyer address or defining a time period to collect the selected goods from the retailer.
In another aspect of the present invention provides a system for facilitating a communication between a retailer and a buyer for a sale of product/s at a discounted offer over a platform. The system including a server having a database, the server comprising a processor and a memory and at least one retailer terminal and at least one buyers’ device, the retailer terminal and the buyers’ device are coupled with the server over a network, the processor of the server is configures to operate an offer application for presenting a discount offer for a particular good or service to one or more buyers located within the vicinity of the retailer, the processor is further configured to: establishing a relationship with the retailer and buyer by registering at the platform, wherein the relationship including receiving information from the retailer pertaining to goods, buyers location information, and the retailers location information, allowing the retailer to add a plurality of goods along with the offer for a particular day and time, allowing the buyer to view all the goods of the retailer, wherein the buyer is able to view all the goods of one or more of the retailers who are all in the same or nearby geographical region of the buyer, triggering a notification to the retailers along with the information of the buyer who have viewed the goods of the corresponding retailer, initiating a communication to the buyer to provide more insight information about the goods and also to get a confirmation of the order, if any and dispatching the goods to the buyer address or defining a time period to collect the selected goods from the retailer.
Other aspects, advantages, and salient features of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description, which, taken in conjunction with the annexed drawings, discloses exemplary embodiments of the invention.

Brief Description of the Drawings
For a better understanding of the present invention reference will now be made by way of example only to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 is a network diagram in an example of the present invention;
Figure 2 is a system for facilitating customer to connect with a vendor who have their products / services available on a deal in a specific time period within a geographical region, according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is a flow diagram illustrating a process for facilitating a communication between a retailer and a buyer for a sale of product/s at a discounted offer over a platform, in an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 4 show an example embodiment of implementing the process as described in figure 3.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a computer system suitable for implementing method of FIG. 3, according to an embodiment.
Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that elements in the figures are illustrated for simplicity and clarity and may have not been drawn to scale. For example, the dimensions of some of the elements in the figure may be exaggerated relative to other elements to help to improve understanding of various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure.
Throughout the drawings, it should be noted that like reference numbers are used to depict the same or similar elements, features, and structures.

Detail Description of the Invention
The present invention is described herein with reference to particular examples. The invention is not, however, limited to such examples.
In examples of the present invention, there is proposed a registration process that automatically creates a user account for an application on a mobile phone. The registration process generates a unique user identifier, which is transmitted to the mobile phone and is used for subsequent authentication of the user with an application server. As the user identifier is fixed to both the subscriber identity associated with the SIM card and the device used during registration, the process prevents the application from being used when a different SIM card is introduced into the phone, even if the application on the phone has already been successfully registered.
Turning now in detail to the drawings, FIG. 1A is a block diagram overview of a system 100 according to one embodiment of the present invention. The system 100 includes a buyer device 120 coupled to a facilitator system device 130. As used herein, a device (including a buyer device 120, the facilitator system device 130 and a retailer device 140) may be coupled, for example, through a communication network, such as a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN), a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), or an Internet Protocol (IP) network such as the Internet, an intranet or an extranet. Moreover, as used herein, communications include those enabled by cellular, satellite, or radio technology.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the buyer device 120 communicates with a remote Web-based platform or facilitator system device 130 (e.g., a server) through the Internet. Although embodiments of the present invention will be described with respect to information exchanged using a Web site, according to other embodiments of the present invention information may instead be exchanged between devices (including the buyer device 120 and the facilitator system device 130) using, for example: a telephone; a facsimile machine; e-mail; a WEBTV interface; a cable network interface; or a wireless device.
Information exchanged between a buyer and the facilitator system device 130 (as well as between a retailer or seller and the facilitator system device 130), may also use a Voice Response Unit (VRU) or Interactive VRU (IVRU).
FIG. 2 is a system for facilitating customer to connect with a vendor/retailer who have their products / services available on a deal in a specific time period within a geographical region, according to one embodiment of the present invention. The system 200 includes users having computing devices (210A, 210B, and 201C), vendor/retailer (215A, 215B, and 215C), network 220, network server 225, application server 230, and database 235. System 200 may comprise a plurality of users and vendors in connection with one or more applications (e.g. application may be or may include but not limited to offers or deal on a product or goods). Using computing device for example, user 205A may subscribe (e.g., create an account) or register with one or more application provided by application server 130 (e.g. the application server may provide an option to purchase a product or good by the vendor to the registered buyer). Once user 205A has registered with the service, user 205A may perform a login (i.e., access account) and may access deal application to view various offers and/or rewards based on various actions or interactions. The deal application may be integrated with or registered with one or more social networking outlets such as Facebook etc.
When registering with the deal application, user 205A may be required to input or provide (via computing device) registration information or user data including but not limited to name, user ID, password address, phone number, e-mail address, birthday, age, gender, relationship status, employment status, and education. User 205A may also provide other pertinent data including demographic information, geographic location, interests, hobbies, and preferences about various categories such as dining, events, travel, recreational activities, health, and retail. User registration information and data may be used to generate a profile of user 205A which may be used to tailor offers for user 205A. User data and profile information may be stored in database 235. Registration data and other related user information may be used by application server 230 to match offers to user 205A as well as to determine what type of deal and or award and the amount of such reward to award to user 205A. In an example embodiment, the vendor 215A may provide various deals on the product or goods for the registered buyers, more particularly, the buyers who are all within the speculated distance from the vendor. So that that the vendor may be able to sell the product and/or close the deal with the buyer.
System 200 may include database 235 for storing data. Database 235 may store promotions and deals offered by vendors (215A, 215B), user-related information, user payment information, profile information, preferences, parameters, vendor credentials, and other data for use with the customer loyalty and deal application provided by application server 230. Database 235 may be separate from or integrated with application server 230. Database 235 may also store any updates to user data or profile data or vendor data received from/provided by user 205A and vendor 215A, respectively.
Computing devices used by the user or vendor are inclusive of a general purpose computing device capable of accessing information over a network. Computing devices may be any computing device known in the art such as a workstation, laptop computer, net book computer, tablet computer, mobile device, cellular telephone, or the like that can communicate over network 215. Computing devices include software and/or hardware capable of sending, receiving, and processing data such as user profile or registration data. Computing device may receive data from user 205A and send the data over network 220 to application server 230 for processing. Computing devices may also offer location-based information such as that generated through cellular network base stations, IP network access, or GPS data.
Network 220 is inclusive of any communication known in the art such as the Internet, Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), intranet, extranet, private network, or other network. Application server 230 may be accessed via optional network server 225. Network server 225 may receive and process data and/or requests from computing device. For example, user 205A may request and provide data to become a registered subscriber with the customer loyalty and deal application provided by application server 230.
Processing the data and/or request may include sending data to application server 230, receiving a response from application server 230 and sending a response or data to network server 225. Network server 225 may then forward the response or data to computing device.
In addition to hosting the customer loyalty and deal application, application server 230 may process credit card payments associated with offers, deals, and gifts purchased by users (205A, 205B, 205C). Application server 230 may also manage and track offer issuance and sales such as the activation, payment, load balance, and redemption associated with deals or gift certificate or stored value cards. In one embodiment, credit card payments may be received, processed, and managed separately via a payment or point-of-sale gateway communicatively coupled to application server 230. Application server 230 may serve as a proxy to connect users and their payment information to the payment processor or point-of-sale (POS) gateway of a vendor 215A. Vendors (215A-215C) may each have an account connected or linked to one or more preferred or selected available POS gateways. Credit card or other payment information from a user 205A may be associated with a POS gateway using credentials of the vendor 215A.
Application server 230 may be implemented in a general computing device that otherwise communicates with database 235 and network server 225. An example of such a device is the general computing system illustrated in FIG. 4. One or more software applications or modules may be stored in memory and executable by a processor (not shown) at application server 230. The present deal application may be implemented by one or more processors that execute instructions stored in one or more memory mediums. The executed instructions may result in the processor(s) generating and providing one or more graphical interfaces.
Figure 3 is a flow diagram illustrating a process for facilitating a communication between a retailer and a buyer for a sale of product/s at a discounted offer over a platform, in an embodiment of the present invention
At step 310, the method establish the relationship with the retailer and buyer by registering at the platform, where the relationship including receiving information from the retailer pertaining to goods, buyers location information, and the retailers location information.
At step 320, the method allows the retailer to add a plurality of goods along with the offer for a particular day and time. The offer price or discounted offer prices is for a particular goods, is a reduction in amount from a standard offer price of the particular goods.
At step 330, the method allows the buyer to view all the goods of the retailer, wherein the buyer is able to view all the goods of one or more of the retailers who are all in the same or nearby geographical region of the buyer. The nearby location means the same Zip code as the retailer providing the particular good or service.
At step 340, the method triggers a notification to the retailers along with the information of the buyer who have viewed the goods of the corresponding retailer. The notification received by the retailers includes one or more buyer’s information including mobile number, address of the buyer and the information of the interested product.
At step 350, the method initiates a communication to the buyer to provide more insight information about the goods and also to get a confirmation of the order, if any; and
At step 360, the method dispatches the goods to the buyer address or defining a time period to collect the selected goods from the retailer.
Further, the method updates the offers periodically in order to have effective communication between the buyers and the retailers. The offer includes the discounted offer price, the limited offer time and the limited redemption time. Furthermore, the method may provide one or more access code to the buyer and the retailer, the access code correlating to each of the limited number of discount offers provided by the retailer to the each buyer.
Figure 4 show an example embodiment of implementing the process as described in figure 3.
Retailer process:
Initially retailer has to register with a mobile number. Later the retailer can add all the offers available with the shop and daily one can update on their own at the portal. As the customers/buyers will be searching according to the surroundings (e.g. zip code), retailer will be retrieving the customers/buyers near to retailers. So retailers may can get huge number of customers/buyers. According to this facility (i.e. method or system or both) can also give door deliveries so that more number of customers/buyers might get attracted. As the method or system or both (e.g. mobile application) is user friendly retailer will not find any difficulty to update their offers.
As shown in figure 4A, the at 410, the retailer will update the shop, at 420, the customer/buyer will view the shop, at 430, the customer/buyer may call to retailers directly for the confirmation of the products what they are seeing on the portal or platform or application., at 440, the customer can check if delivery service is available, then customer/buyer can opt for, for which the product will be delivered to their address. Otherwise, the customer/buyer may visit the retailer shop to close the deal by way of purchase.
Customer process
The present method or system serves the customers with ideal benefits. Through this application method, the customer gets best benefits and features (like e.g. offer facility). Moreover the customer get discount on each and every product (e.g. A-Z services and product), in which customers make profit with every service and product. In addition, the customer can get various modes of payments (e.g. card & cash). Moreover, the customer will get services in all the three mediums i.e. Android/IOS/website. Also, the customer can have an option of delivery services where the product or goods get delivered at their doorstep. Mainly, the method provides to know and get all the products in their surrounding location itself. In addition, the application will have an online and offline support for any clarification and queries. Once the product is finalized by the customer after browsing them, the customer will be having the information about the retailers, where they customers can call the retailer to know more about your product. The more important problem solved by this invention is the touch feeling by the customer on the product. Even though, the products are browsed over the web, but when they would like to buy, they can visit the retailer and see the product, touch the product, feel the product and buy the same from the retailer in no time. Moreover, the services provided by the method on the A-Z products which is in the nearest surrounding retailers which eventually save time.
At 450, the method allows the customer to login. Upon login, at 460 the customer can do a search for desired product in his/her location/surrounding. At 470, the method allows the customer to call directly to the retailers for the confirmation of the goods. The confirmation may be on the availability of the product, original price of the product, discounted percentage given to the product, the color or number of quantity is available at the retailer, time to get the quantity from the manufacturer by the retailer etc. At 480, the method checks whether if delivery service is available for the offered product, then the product will be delivered or customer can fix a time with the retailer to visit the shop to get the product.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a computer system suitable for implementing method of FIG. 3, according to an embodiment. In various embodiments, the user device may comprise a personal computing device (e.g., smart phone, a computing tablet, a personal computer, laptop, PDA, Bluetooth device, key FOB, badge, etc.) capable of communicating with the network. The merchant server and/or service provider may utilize a network computing device (e.g., a network server) capable of communicating with the network. It should be appreciated that each of the devices utilized by users and service providers may be implemented as computer system 500 in a manner as follows.
Computer system 500 includes a bus 502 or other communication mechanism for communicating information data, signals, and information between various components of computer system 500. Components include an input/output (I/O) component 504 that processes a user action, such as selecting keys from a keypad/keyboard, selecting one or more buttons, image, or links, and/or moving one or more images, etc., and sends a corresponding signal to bus 502. I/O component 504 may also include an output component, such as a display 511 and a cursor control 513 (such as a keyboard, keypad, mouse, etc.). An optional audio input/output component 505 may also be included to allow a user to use voice for inputting information by converting audio signals. Audio I/O component 505 may allow the user to hear audio. A transceiver or network interface 506 transmits and receives signals between computer system 500 and other devices, such as another user device, a merchant server, or a service provider server via network 560. In one embodiment, the transmission is wireless, although other transmission mediums and methods may also be suitable. One or more processors 512, which can be a micro-controller, digital signal processor (DSP), or other processing component, processes these various signals, such as for display on computer system 500 or transmission to other devices via a communication link 518. Processor(s) 512 may also control transmission of information, such as cookies or IP addresses, to other devices.
Components of computer system 500 also include a system memory component 514 (e.g., RAM), a static storage component 516 (e.g., ROM), and/or a disk drive 517. Computer system 500 performs specific operations by processor(s) 512 and other components by executing one or more sequences of instructions contained in system memory component 514. Logic may be encoded in a computer readable medium, which may refer to any medium that participates in providing instructions to processor(s) 512 for execution. Such a medium may take many forms, including but not limited to, non-volatile media, volatile media, and transmission media. In various embodiments, non-volatile media includes optical or magnetic disks, volatile media includes dynamic memory, such as system memory component 514, and transmission media includes coaxial cables, copper wire, and fiber optics, including wires that comprise bus 502. In one embodiment, the logic is encoded in non-transitory computer readable medium. In one example, transmission media may take the form of acoustic or light waves, such as those generated during radio wave, optical, and infrared data communications.
Some common forms of computer readable media includes, for example, floppy disk, flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, any other magnetic medium, CD-ROM, any other optical medium, punch cards, paper tape, any other physical medium with patterns of holes, RAM, PROM, EEPROM, FLASH-EEPROM, any other memory chip or cartridge, or any other medium from which a computer is adapted to read.
In various embodiments of the present disclosure, execution of instruction sequences to practice the present disclosure may be performed by computer system 500. In various other embodiments of the present disclosure, a plurality of computer systems 500 coupled by communication link 518 to the network (e.g., such as a LAN, WLAN, PTSN, and/or various other wired or wireless networks, including telecommunications, mobile, and cellular phone networks) may perform instruction sequences to practice the present disclosure in coordination with one another.
Where applicable, various embodiments provided by the present disclosure may be implemented using hardware, software, or combinations of hardware and software. Also, where applicable, the various hardware components and/or software components set forth herein may be combined into composite components comprising software, hardware, and/or both without departing from the spirit of the present disclosure. Where applicable, the various hardware components and/or software components set forth herein may be separated into sub-components comprising software, hardware, or both without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. In addition, where applicable, it is contemplated that software components may be implemented as hardware components and vice-versa.
Software, in accordance with the present disclosure, such as program code and/or data, may be stored on one or more computer readable mediums. It is also contemplated that software identified herein may be implemented using one or more general purpose or specific purpose computers and/or computer systems, networked and/or otherwise. Where applicable, the ordering of various steps described herein may be changed, combined into composite steps, and/or separated into sub-steps to provide features described herein.
The foregoing disclosure is not intended to limit the present disclosure to the precise forms or particular fields of use disclosed. As such, it is contemplated that various alternate embodiments and/or modifications to the present disclosure, whether explicitly described or implied herein, are possible in light of the disclosure. Having thus described embodiments of the present disclosure, persons of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that changes may be made in form and detail without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. Thus, the present disclosure is limited only by the claims.

,CLAIMS:We Claim:

1. A method for facilitating a communication between a retailer and a buyer for a sale of product/s at a discounted offer over a platform, the method comprising:
establishing a relationship with the retailer and buyer by registering at the platform, wherein the relationship including receiving information from the retailer pertaining to goods, buyers location information, and the retailers location information;
allowing the retailer to add a plurality of goods along with the offer for a particular day and time;
allowing the buyer to view all the goods of the retailer, wherein the buyer is able to view all the goods of one or more of the retailers who are all in the same or nearby geographical region of the buyer;
triggering a notification to the retailers along with the information of the buyer who have viewed the goods of the corresponding retailer;
initiating a communication to the buyer to provide more insight information about the goods and also to get a confirmation of the order, if any; and
dispatching the goods to the buyer address or defining a time period to collect the selected goods from the retailer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the discount offer price for a particular goods, is a reduction in amount from a standard offer price of the particular good.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
updating the offers periodically in order to have effective communication between the buyers and the retailers, wherein the offer includes the discounted offer price, the limited offer time and the limited redemption time.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
providing at least one access code to the buyer and the retailer, the access code correlating to each of the limited number of discount offers provided by the retailer to the each buyer.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification received by the retailers includes one or more buyer’s information including mobile number, address of the buyer and the information of the interested product.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein nearby location means is in the same Zip code as the retailer providing the particular good or service.

7. A system for facilitating a communication between a retailer and a buyer for a sale of product/s at a discounted offer over a platform, the system comprising:
a server including a database, the server comprising a processor and a memory; and
at least one retailer terminal and at least one buyers’ device, the retailer terminal and the buyers’ device are coupled with the server over a network;
the processor of the server is configures to operate an offer application for presenting a discount offer for a particular good or service to one or more buyers located within the vicinity of the retailer, the processor is further configured to:
establishing a relationship with the retailer and buyer by registering at the platform, wherein the relationship including receiving information from the retailer pertaining to goods, buyers location information, and the retailers location information;
allowing the retailer to add a plurality of goods along with the offer for a particular day and time;
allowing the buyer to view all the goods of the retailer, wherein the buyer is able to view all the goods of one or more of the retailers who are all in the same or nearby geographical region of the buyer;
triggering a notification to the retailers along with the information of the buyer who have viewed the goods of the corresponding retailer;
initiating a communication to the buyer to provide more insight information about the goods and also to get a confirmation of the order, if any; and
dispatching the goods to the buyer address or defining a time period to collect the selected goods from the retailer.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the application is executed at the buyer-side operating environment and at the merchant side operating environment.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the buyer-side operating environment and the merchant-side operation environment is implemented within one of a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant, a portable computer etc., within a wireless local area network, and a server within a wide-area network.