Claims:We Claim:
1. A method for providing online comparison shopping, from among many vendors, by a website system accessible by a user through a communication network, the method comprising the steps of:
a. Compiling a shopping list identifying specific items to be purchased.
b. Receiving criteria specified by the user.
c. Displaying the shopping order to the user.
d. Comparing the pricing of same products.
e. Delivery charges by different vendors
f. Dispatching and receiving the delivery items
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the Compiling a shopping list including items computer, Mac book, Mobiles and Groceries items
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the system autogenerate comparing the price of shopping items from different vendors.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the system autogenerate delivery charges and prices of commodities by many vendors
, Description:Technical Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to online comparison shopping of price of items willing to buy by user and, more particularly, to a method and system for providing improved online comparison shopping.
Background of the Invention
Problems, however, exist in such conventional online comparison-shopping systems. A price comparison between multiple vendors who offer a requested product is made only for one product at a time. This means that, for each item to be purchased, the user must individually request for a comparison list, view the comparison list and manually select an item/vendor from the list. This process can be time consuming and tedious to the user, especially when many items are to be purchased. Furthermore, once the shopping order has been placed to different vendors, the user must track a plurality of different shipments of the purchased items by the different vendors. This process also takes a considerable amount of the user's time and can often aggravate the user.
Accordingly, there is a need for an improved method and system for providing online comparison shopping which overcomes the above-described problems and other problems associated with conventional online comparison-shopping methods and systems.
Object of the Invention
The present invention provides a method and system for providing improved online comparison shopping which overcomes the problems associated with conventional online comparison-shopping methods and systems.
Summary of the Invention
Particularly, the system of the present invention compiles a shopping list for the user which identifies specific items that the user wishes to purchase, such as the name of the product, manufacturer, model number, etc. Then the system allows the user to specify certain optimization criteria (shopping criteria) for obtaining an optimal shopping order based on the user's shopping list. Examples of the optimization criteria can include, but are not limited to, the lowest total cost including any tax and/or shipping charges, vendor preferences or dislikes, vendor shipment methods, delivery speed, etc.
Based on the user-specified optimization criteria and any optimization criteria pre-set by the system, the system optimizes the user's shopping list to produce an optimal shopping order using existing optimization techniques or programs. That is, the system is configured to generate automatically a single purchase order for purchasing all items on the shopping list, wherein the order satisfies the optimization criteria set by the user and the system. This optimization shopping order will identify a single vendor for each of the items on the shopping list. The user is able to modify the generated optimal shopping order to reflect any last-minute changes by the user. In certain situations, the system may be unable to generate an optimal shopping order because, e.g., no online vendors offer certain items on the shopping list. In these cases, the user is notified of the optimization failure and the system can be configured to re-attempt the optimization process (e.g., after a certain time period) until an optimal shopping order is generated.
If the user approves the shopping order, the shopping order is processed according to known techniques. For example, the shopping order is sent to specific vendors so that shipments of the items identified in the shopping order can be made. Each vendor system is configured to transmit their shipment tracking information to the present system. Then the user can view and monitor this shipment tracking information for all items in the shopping order from one website.
Brief description of Drawings:
Fig .1 is a flow chart illustrating the products by comparing pricing and delivery of the products in online shopping system
Detailed Description of Invention:
FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating the processing steps of a method of providing online comparison shopping according to one embodiment of the present invention. These processing steps can be implemented by a computer program executable by a computer system. Preferably, these processing steps are implemented by an online comparison-shopping website system that provides and maintains an online comparison-shopping website accessible by users through the Internet. As shown in FIG. 1, a user’s shopping list which identifies specific items that the user wishes to purchase, is compiled by the website system. This can be accomplished by providing a menu of items selectable by the user. The shopping list identifies specific items to be purchased. The user can enter “computer monitor” into the search field which causes the system to provide a list of specific computer monitors offered by online vendors. The user can select one item from this list to add the selected item to the user's shopping list maintained by the website system. The user as shown in Fig. 1 the user in step 1 Selecting the item in online shopping mart by seeing and view all the items of his desire like computer monitor, books ,tablets, mobile phones by different vendors then in step 2 By comparing the price and delivery of different items in one online shopping platform step 3 Customer get an idea of discounted price of similar product sold by different vendors in step 4 Delivery charges by different vendors in step 5 Date of dispatch and receiving the product item and in last step 6 Customer selected the product of his interest by clicking the link of product.
Depending on the complexity of the order optimization performed, the number of items in the shopping list, and the number of vendors known to the system, etc., the optimization process may take some time to complete in which case the optimization process is completed off-line. If the system determines that the optimization processing time will exceed a certain predetermined time limit, then the system informs the user that the system will notify the user when the off-line optimization process is completed. Once the off-line optimization process is completed, a notification message is sent to the user via existing communication means such as an e-mail, phone, pager, fax, etc. This notification message includes a unique identifier that the user can use to log back into the system and access the result of the completed optimization process.