US 12,169,860 B1
Systems and methods for generating a gift list of items and managing distribution of items from the gift list of items by sharing one or more items on an item and personal level among different purchasers or groups of purchasers of the items
Todd A. Van Thomme, Ankeny, IA (US)
Assigned to Giftzapz, LLC, Ankeny, IA (US)
Filed by Giftzapz, LLC, Ankeny, IA (US)
Filed on Feb. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/667,181.
Application 17/667,181 is a continuation of application No. 16/022,053, filed on Jun. 28, 2018, granted, now 11,244,376.
Application 16/022,053 is a continuation of application No. 14/555,953, filed on Nov. 28, 2014, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/909,615, filed on Nov. 27, 2013.
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of shipping inventory of a particular product associated with a product identifier to a physical location chosen from the group consisting of a store or a distribution center to better match a prospective high demand for a product prior to an occurrence of a prospective higher demand using a gift giving and receiving networking system, wherein the physical location is proximate a geographic designation or geographic designations of the prospective high demand for the particular product comprising the steps of:
a plurality of individual gift requesting users using the gift giving and receiving networking system and wherein the plurality of individual gift requesting users use the gift giving and receiving networking system to share one or more individual items with a gift giving user or users for future purchase and to be given at a future date;
wherein the one or more individual items has data associated with it stored at an item level within a database of the gift giving and receiving networking system and wherein the data associated with the one or more individual items shared with the gift giving user at the item level includes at least a date, event, or date of an event or holiday when the gift would be given, and a geographic designation of the gift giving user for the one or more individual items to be given;
a retailer or online distributor accessing the database associated with the gift giving and receiving networking system and determining the geographic designation or designations of the prospective high demand for the particular product of the one or more individual items by determining the geographic designation or designations where greater numbers of gift giving users received a sharing of the particular product associated with the product identifier for the date, event or date of an event or holiday when the gift will be given by searching the database using the product identifier for the particular product and the date, event, or date of an event or holiday;
shipping more quantities of the particular product associated with the product identifier to the physical location located within the geographic designation or designations of the prospective high demand associated with the product identifier for the particular product before the date, event, or date of an event or holiday than quantities shipped to other geographic locations so that physical inventory of a particular product is positioned geographically where the prospective high demand for the particular product is located prior to the time when the prospective high demand for the particular product is expected to occur;
wherein the gift giving and receiving networking system comprises a plurality of computing devices comprising: a web-enabled computing device in communication with a plurality of computer server systems via an internet, wherein the plurality of computer serer systems comprise: a hub server system of one or more servers and at least one retailer server system having information stored and configured to be communicated therefrom based upon an instruction received from the hub serer system, wherein the information stored on the at least one retailer serer system is information about a plurality of products offered by a retailer including item descriptions, at least one product identifier, product pricing information, and optionally a photograph of the product,
wherein the web-enabled computing device further comprises: a touch sensitive display screen; one or more processors; a non-transitory memory; and a program, and
wherein the program is configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the program including instructions for:
displaying a login screen of the program on the touch sensitive display screen of the web-enabled computing device whereby a gift requesting user may login to use the program;
displaying a home screen allowing linking to different functions including an add item instruction set, a shop friend's items instruction set and a list management instruction set;
wherein activation of the add item instruction set is accomplished by the gift requesting user touching the touch sensitive display screen of the web-enabled computing device on the home screen corresponding to activation instructions for the add item instruction set; wherein activation of the list management instruction set is accomplished by the gift requesting user touching the touch sensitive display screen of the web-enabled computing device on the home screen corresponding to the activation instructions for the an item management instruction set; and wherein activation of the shop friend's items instruction set is accomplished by the gift giving user touching the touch sensitive display screen of the web-enabled computing device on the home screen corresponding to the activation instructions for the shop friend's items instruction set;
adding an item to a list of products on a gift item listing shown in response to activation of list management instructions by the gift requesting user:
activating the add item management instruction set;
inputting product data chosen from the group consisting of: (1) at least one keyword into a keyword search field and (2) a product identifier, wherein the product identifier is input by the gift requesting user using an input receiving device of the web-enabled computing device to intake visual, audio, or visual and audio input and associate the product identifier with a particular product;
wherein the product data is transmitted to the hub server system and to the at least one retailer server system where one of the at least one retailer server system thereafter transmits to the hub server system at least one product corresponding to the product data inputted by the gift requesting user and to the web-enabled computing device;
wherein a geographic data regarding a location of a user is used to display one or more particular retailer or vendor identifier to the user wherein at least one of the displayed one or more particular retailer or vendor identifier corresponds to the retailer or vendor where the product data was transmitted to the hub server system from and the user selects the retailer or vendor where the product data was transmitted to the hub server system from and a name of the user selected retailer or vendor where the product data was transmitted to the hub server system from is automatically added to the gift item being added to the list of products on the gift item listing;
the gift requesting user adds a gift item to a displayed list of products on the gift item listing;
sharing one or more shared items that include purchased or unpurchased items desired by the gift requesting user, with the gift giving user or gift giving users of the program via the hub server system wherein the sharing causes only unpurchased items to be displayed to the gift giving user of the program when the gift giving user activates the shop friend's items instruction set;
wherein the gift giving user's activation of the shop friend's items instruction set displays individual unpurchased items shared from the gift requesting user to the gift giving; and the gift giving user purchases the unpurchased item for the gift requesting user using the program to access at least one retailer serer system to purchase the unpurchased item from within the gift giving and receiving networking system and wherein the at least one retailer server system's display within the program to the user includes at least a description or depiction of the unpurchased item and an ability to make a credit card or other secure online transaction to complete the purchase of the unpurchased item from an online retailer while within the program resulting in that the unpurchased item that is purchased by the user becoming a purchased item in the gift requesting user's displayed list of products at a time set and inputted by the user using an input prompt after a time the unpurchased item is purchased where the time set and inputted by the user using the input prompt is selectable between a date in the future and immediately;
wherein after the gift giving user purchases the unpurchased item from the online retailer a displayed list of the gift recipient's purchased items with a future notification date is removed from a displayed list of any other non-purchasing gift giving user the gift requesting user shared the same item with previously using the program without the gift requesting user being notified until after the future notification date; and
wherein a gift management instruction set allows the gift requesting user to determine the items to be purchased for display and selection by individual users.