Patent ID: 11869046
Assignee: NCR VOYIX CORPORATION
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
providing, by a cloud server, a crowd-sourced shopping social media platform as a service that is available to users through user interfaces of mobile applications or browsers on user-operated devices;
registering, by the cloud server, the users for access to the crowd-sourced shopping social media platform;
receiving, by the cloud server, a shopping activity defined by a first user through a first user interface to the crowd-sourced shopping social media platform;
defining, by the cloud server, a customized community for participation in the shopping activity;
receiving, by the cloud server, orders from second users through the second user interfaces, wherein receiving the orders further includes limiting a total purchase amount each order that is permissible based on shopping visit restrictions defined by the first user for the shopping activity;
providing, by the cloud server, the orders of the second users to the first user;
facilitating, by the cloud server, payments and deliveries associated with the orders to the first user through the customized community of the crowd-sourced shopping social media platform when the first user completes the shopping activity at a store, wherein facilitating further includes receiving, by the cloud server, a transaction receipt from the first user through the first user interface, obtaining, by the cloud server, a customer identifier from the transaction receipt for the first user, linking, by the cloud server, the orders for the shopping activity to the first user based on the customer identifier, generating, by the cloud server, a separate receipt for each second user based on the corresponding order associated with the corresponding second user, providing, by the cloud server, the separate receipts to the first user through the first user interface, and providing, by the cloud server, each separate receipt to the corresponding second user through the corresponding second user interface; and
delivering, by the cloud server, a token defining each second user's order to a terminal associated with the store causing the terminal to send an individualized receipt to each second user based on the corresponding order when the first user pays for a single aggregated order that includes a first user's order and the orders from the second users at the terminal of the store.