Patent ID: 11972468
Assignee: THE QUANTUM GROUP, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for facilitating online discovery and purchases of a set of items, the method comprising:
presenting, via a display device, a graphical user interface associated with a decision organizer tool to a user, the decision organizer tool operating at a processor of a user terminal;
accessing, via the processor, a first website having a first online store associated with a first entity;
in response to receiving a first user input from the user while accessing the first website, the first user input corresponding to a first item offered at the first online store, selecting the first item from the first online store at the first website;
generating, via the processor, a first icon representative of the first item selected from the first online store at the first website;
updating, via the processor, the graphical user interface to include the first icon;
presenting, via the display device, the graphical user interface including the first icon;
accessing, via the processor, a second website having a second online store associated with a second entity while maintaining the first icon at the decision organizer tool;
in response to receiving a second user input from the user while accessing the second web site, the second user input corresponding to a second item offered at the second online store, selecting the second item from the second online store at the second website;
generating, via the processor, a second icon representative of the second item selected from the second online store at the second website;
updating, via the processor, the graphical user interface to include the second icon;
presenting, via the display device, the graphical user interface including the first icon and the second icon;
in response to receiving a request to purchase the first and second items, receiving, via the decision organizer tool, payment to purchase the first item and the second item;
converting, via the decision organizer tool, a first portion of the payment to a first purchase protocol, the first portion of the payment being associated with the first item and the first purchase protocol being associated with the first online store;
transmitting, via the first purchase protocol, the first portion of the payment to the first online store;
converting, via the decision organizer tool, a second portion of the payment to a second purchase protocol, the second portion of the payment being associated with the second item and the second purchase protocol being associated with the second online store; and
transmitting, via the second purchase protocol, the second portion of the payment to the second online store.