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

Claim 5:
6. A system, comprising:
a cloud server that comprises a processor; and
the processor executes instructions that cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
providing a crowd-sourced shopping social media platform as a service that is available to users through an existing social media platform through an application programming interface (API);
registering first users through a first user interface activated by the API on first user operated devices;
interacting with a certain first user to defining a shopping activity planned by the certain first user through the first user interface;
permitting other second users to hitch onto the shopping activity of the certain first user and provide orders for the shopping activity through second user interfaces activated by the API on second user operated devices, wherein permitting further includes further includes limiting a total purchase amount each order that is permissible based on shopping visit restrictions defined by the certain first user for the shopping activity;
facilitating payments and deliveries of the orders through the crowd-sourced shopping social media platform to the other second users when the certain first user completes the shopping activity at a store based on the crow-sourced social media platform detecting the certain first use completed the shopping activity, wherein facilitating further includes receiving a transaction receipt from the certain first user through the first user interface, obtaining, a customer identifier from the transaction receipt for the certain first user, linking the orders for the shopping activity to the certain first user based on the customer identifier, generating a separate receipt for each second user based on the corresponding order associated with the corresponding second user, providing the separate receipts to the certain first user through the first user interface, and providing each separate receipt to the corresponding second user through the corresponding second user interface; and
delivering 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 certain first user pays for a single aggregated order that includes a certain user's order and the orders from the second users at the terminal of the store.