Abstract: A method for automated provision of shipping address information for online sales transactions is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request, from an online checkout process at an online retailer, for shipping address information for a first friend of a consumer, reading trademark data from a database, wherein the trademark data corresponds to the online retailer, providing to the consumer a portal displaying a social network login interface, wherein the portal includes the trademark data, generating a message to the first friend requesting shipping address information, wherein the message includes the trademark data, and transmitting the message to the first friend using the contact information that was read, receiving shipping address information from the first friend, and transmitting the shipping address information for the first friend to the online checkout process for completion of the checkout process.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 19, 2013
Publication date:
March 20, 2014
Applicant:
Gift Accept, LLC
Inventors:
Gary Plichta, Dan Gudema, Jean Touboul, Cass Riese