System for intelligent injecting and ejecting of virtual connected buttons for OS interfaces

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10540706-B2
Application number	US-201615244240-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 23, 2016
Priority date	Aug 23, 2016
Publication date	Jan 21, 2020
Grant date	Jan 21, 2020

Abstract

A system for injecting and ejecting virtual connected buttons on an operating system (OS) interface includes one or more communications channels connecting a host to on-line product/service acquisition sites, information on a user's purchases from the acquisition sites, a virtual purchasing connected button (VPCB) for each product/service the user buys from an acquisition site that can be displayed on an interface of the OS of the host, and an online-purchasing system manager that triggers, based on that information, a deferring action of the display of the VPCB on the OS interface for one or more products.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for injecting and ejecting virtual connected buttons on an operating system (OS) interface, comprising:
one or more communications channels connecting a host to on-line product/service acquisition sites;
information on a user's purchases from the acquisition sites;
a virtual purchasing connected button (VPCB) for each product/service the user buys from an acquisition site that can be displayed on an interface of the OS of the host, wherein the VPCB is user configurable upon being physically touched by a user to order a specific product and quantity via a vendor's account; and
an online-purchasing system manager that triggers, based on that information, a deferring action of the display of the VPCB on the OS interface for one or more products.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the on-line acquisition sites include store sites, auction sites, and services sites.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the information on a user's purchases includes a product, a date, a price, periodicity for the same or related purchases, purchases within a user's family or social network, speed of purchasing.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the deferring action is one of blocking the VPCB from appearing, deferring the VPCB from appearing for a predetermined period of time, and scheduling VPCB to appear with a predetermined periodicity.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein a VPCB is user configurable upon being physically touched by a user to order a specific product and quantity before the product becomes out-of-stock.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein a VPCB is user configurable to be injected into a designated computer desktop region.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein a VPCB sends a signal to a vendor shopping app upon being selected by a user, and automatically orders a new stock of a product the VPCB is configured to order.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein a selected VPCB sends a message to a user's mobile phone and gives the user a predetermined period of time to cancel the order of new stock.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein a graphical appearance of a VPCB changes based on an aspect of a purchase, wherein the aspects include a reminder to purchase or that a purchase is in progress, or the availability of a discount or coupon.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the OS interface in which the VPCB can be displayed includes a task bar.

11. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a predictive model that learns a user's buying habits and periodicities and determines a number of VPCBs to display in the OS interface, based on a cost/benefit analysis, a peak purchase demand, a frequency of when products/services were sold, a user's cognitive preferences, a size of a screen of a computing device being used.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the online-purchasing system manager is configured to show a user a graphical representation in the OS interface of one or more products and receiving a user selection of at least one of the products for display as a VPCB in the OS interface.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the online-purchasing system manager is configured to receive a signal from a physical product connected button and to display a VPWF in response to said signal.

14. A program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executed by the computer to implement a system for injecting and ejecting virtual connected buttons on an operating system (OS) interface, the system comprising:
one or more communications channels connecting a host to on-line product/service acquisition sites;
information on a user's purchases from the acquisition sites;
a virtual purchasing connected button (VPCB) for each product/service the user buys from an acquisition site that can be displayed on an interface of the OS of the host, wherein the VPCB is user configurable upon being physically touch by a user to order a specific product and quantity via a vendor's account; and
an online-purchasing system manager that triggers, based on that information, a deferring action of the display of the VPCB on the OS interface for one or more products.

15. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 , wherein the on-line acquisition sites include store sites, auction sites, and services sites.

16. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 wherein the information on a user's purchases includes a product, a date, a price, periodicity for the same or related purchases, purchases within a user's family or social network, speed of purchasing.

17. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 , wherein the deferring action is one of blocking the VPCB from appearing, deferring the VPCB from appearing for a predetermined period of time, and scheduling VPCB to appear with a predetermined periodicity.

18. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 , wherein a VPCB is user configurable upon being physically touched by a user to order a specific product and quantity before the product becomes out-of-stock.

19. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 , wherein a VPCB is user configurable to be injected into a designated computer desktop region.

20. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 , wherein a VPCB sends a signal to a vendor shopping app upon being selected by a user, and automatically orders a new stock of a product the VPCB is configured to order.

21. The computer readable program storage device of claim 20 , wherein a selected VPCB sends a message to a user's mobile phone and gives the user a predetermined period of time to cancel the order of new stock.

22. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 , wherein a graphical appearance of a VPCB changes based on an aspect of a purchase, wherein the aspects include a reminder to purchase or that a purchase is in progress, or the availability of a discount or coupon.

23. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 , wherein the OS interface in which the VPCB can be displayed includes a task bar.

24. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 , wherein the system further comprises a predictive model that learns a user's buying habits and periodicities and determines a number of VPCBs to display in the OS interface, based on a cost/benefit analysis, a peak purchase demand, a frequency of when products/services were sold, a user's cognitive preferences, a size of a screen of a computing device being used.

25. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 , wherein the online-purchasing system manager is configured to show a user a graphical representation in the OS interface of one or more products and receiving a user selection of at least one of the products for display as a VPCB in the OS interface.

26. The computer readable program storage device of claim 14 , wherein the online-purchasing system manager is configured to receive a signal from a physical product connected button and to display a VPWF in response to said signal.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Chefalas Thomas E
• Pickover Clifford A
• Vukovic Maja
• Weldemariam Komminist Sisai

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06Q30/0641 Primary

  utilising user interfaces specially adapted for shopping · CPC title

• G06Q50/01

  Physics · mapped topic