Patent ID: 9275407
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to perform operations comprising: presenting, at a mobile device, a mobile application-based interface to a user visiting a retailer on-line; receiving, through the mobile application-based interface at the mobile device, an indication from the user visiting the retailer on-line to connect one or more social networking accounts of the user with a user account stored at a server of the retailer; obtaining, at the mobile device and from the server of the retailer, information identifying friends of the user; obtaining data indicating that: (i) a subset of the identified friends of the user was present at a physical store of the retailer within a threshold time period immediately preceding the user visiting the retailer on-line, and (ii) the subset of the identified friends of the user ordered from the physical store of the retailer within the threshold time period immediately preceding the user visiting the retailer on-line, the data being generated at the server of the retailer by obtaining, from the one or more social networking accounts of the user, the information identifying the friends of the user, determining a time and location of orders placed by the friends of the user, comparing the location of the orders placed by the friends of the user with a location of the physical store of the retailer, determining whether the time of the orders placed by the friends of the user satisfies the threshold time period, and determining the subset of friends of the user that placed orders at the location of the physical store of the retailer at a time that satisfies the threshold time period; presenting to the user, using the mobile application-based interface, information identifying the subset of the friends that have ordered from the physical store of the retailer; obtaining, at the mobile device through the mobile application-based interface, an order from the user visiting the retailer on-line; and communicating, from the mobile device to the server of the retailer, the order from the user visiting the retailer on-line.