Appeal 2007-2370
Application 09/373,141
1 15. In one embodiment of Shkedy, buyers could indicate a minimum
2 discount off the maximum offer price provided by the central controller
3 that a buyer would be willing to accept. The seller would then be
4 notified of a maximum price he had to beat in order to bid (Shkedy 7:21-
5 25).
6 16. In another embodiment of Shkedy, the intermediary could pre-
7 negotiate a supply contract with a major supplier, prior to forming the
8 buyer pool. The pre-negotiated seller contract terms would be
9 automatically available to any individual who joins the pool. In this
10 embodiment, the intermediary pre-negotiates a contract with a seller
11 such as an office supply company in which the office supply company
12 would beat any published competitors price and provide an additional
13 5% discount to the collective buyer pool on condition that the
14 intermediary (i.e. collective buyer pool) exclusively purchase supplies
15 from them for a whole year (Shkedy 7:26-40).
16 17. Shkedy’s seller database maintains data on sellers. It contains data
17 regarding the items the seller can deliver with fields such as item ID,
18 current price, restrictions on sale and discount schedule for large
19 quantities (Shkedy 10:11-20).
20 eCommerce
21 18. eCommerce describes an online buying service that pre-negotiates
22 volume discounts (eCommerce 1:First ¶).
23 19. eCommerce describes the economic model of the online buying
24 service as similar to that of eBay (eCommerce 2:Third ¶).
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