Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Reexamination Certificate
2001-02-28
2011-10-11
Ouellette, Jonathan (Department: 3629)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Reexamination Certificate
active
08036905
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a method and system for local return of a remotely purchased product. A guidelines-based validation and disposition decision process allows for a collection and disposition decision regarding a remotely purchased product to be made prior to returning the product to a remote retailer via an expensive shipping and handling process. By providing a dispersed method of disposition for returned product through online auction web sites, the returned product may be disposed of for consumers/partners one item at a time and the optimal financial return on the returned products may be captured.
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