Patent ID: 9665905
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method of purchasing quantities of items using a 3D shopping cart, said method comprising: receiving, by said computer, a listing of items selected for possible purchase from one or more external e-commerce systems through an API; identifying, by said computer, characteristics of each item in said item listing based on data points acquired for each item from one or more data stores; identifying, by said computer, an item type for each item based on said data points; identifying, by said computer, shared characteristics among a plurality of said items; generating, by said computer, a 3D ordering of said plurality of items, wherein said items in said 3D ordering are visually arranged according to said identified item type and said identified shared characteristics of said items, thereby forming a 3D shopping cart, wherein the 3D ordering has a 3D shape defined, at least in part, by the number of said identified shared characteristics among said items, such that the shape has a number of axes corresponding to the number of identified shared characteristics, wherein the 3D shopping cart comprises a plurality of constituent cells, wherein each cell represents an item or group of items and each column and row of cells in the 3D shopping cart represents a synergy between the items in the respective column or row; displaying, by a display screen of said computer, the 3D shopping cart; and transmitting, by said computer, said 3D shopping cart to said one or more external e-commerce systems allowing a user to checkout and purchase items in the 3D shopping cart from said one or more external e-commerce systems.