Patents by Inventor Joseph M. Kar

Joseph M. Kar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140279140
    Abstract: Methods of facilitating the sale of wares offered from vendors to buyers and for triggering content to the buyers through an intermediary platform in communication with the vendors and the buyers over an Internet include the intermediary platform and the buyer bargaining via a haggling process for a final sale price of a ware. During the haggling process, or if no bargain is reached for the ware in the haggling process or the haggling process for the item times-out after a transaction duration of time from the beginning of the haggling process elapses, the method includes the intermediary platform presenting content to the buyer. In response to the buyer interacting with the content, the method further includes the intermediary platform reinitiating the haggling process between the intermediary platform and the buyer for the ware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Joseph M. Kar
  • Patent number: 7269571
    Abstract: A system and method for the facilitation of sales for items or services between vendors and buyers through an intermediary platform. The sale of these goods or services would be implemented utilizing a haggling process in which the intermediary and each individual buyer would bargain for a final sale price of that item. Generally, each of the vendors provides the intermediary with a retail sale price and a minimum sale price for each of the items. Thereafter, a buyer would counter the retail price for each of the items with an offer presumably below the retail price. Haggle tables are utilized to allow the intermediary to counter the buyer's initial offer as well as subsequent counter offers by the buyer. Once a sale price for the particular item or service is finalized, the item would be delivered or service rendered to the buyer and the vendors account with the intermediary would be credited to reflect this purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Inventor: Joseph M. Kar
  • Publication number: 20030083949
    Abstract: A system and method for the facilitation of sales for items or services between vendors and buyers through an intermediary platform. The sale of these goods or services would be implemented utilizing a haggling process in which the intermediary and each individual buyer would bargain for a final sale price of that item. Generally, each of the vendors provides the intermediary with a retail sale price and a minimum sale price for each of the items. Thereafter, a buyer would counter the retail price for each of the items with an offer presumably below the retail price. Haggle tables are utilized to allow the intermediary to counter the buyer's initial offer as well as subsequent counter offers by the buyer. Once a sale price for the particular item or service is finalized, the item would be delivered or service rendered to the buyer and the vendors account with the intermediary would be credited to reflect this purchase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventor: Joseph M. Kar