B2B Order Capture and Fulfillment of Unknown Items
Summary
The USPTO published patent application US20260099868A1, filed July 23, 2025, for a system and method enabling B2B sellers to proactively enhance their sales catalogs. The invention analyzes customer purchase patterns and trends to identify items not currently available, prioritizes those items based on constraints and business goals, and adds selected items to the catalog after establishing supply contracts. The system incorporates sustainability goals, warehouse capacity, and manufacturing limitations into its prioritization algorithm.
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The USPTO published a patent application for a B2B order fulfillment system that proactively identifies and adds items to sales catalogs. The system determines customer clusters, analyzes purchase trends to derive unavailable items, prioritizes those items based on constraints including sustainability goals and warehouse capacity, and establishes supply contracts before adding items to the catalog.
Technology companies developing e-commerce platforms, order management systems, or supply chain software may find this patent relevant to their product development and intellectual property strategy. The patent describes a systematic approach to catalog expansion that integrates business constraints into algorithmic decision-making.
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Systems and Methods of B2B Order Capture and Fulfillment of Unknown Items
Application US20260099868A1 Kind: A1 Apr 09, 2026
Inventors
Sumit Mittal, Suresh Acharya, Raghuveer Prasad Nagar
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for proactive enhancement of a catalog. The method includes determining one or more customer clusters for a seller, determining purchase item trends for the customer clusters, deriving items from the purchase item trends that are not available in a sales catalog of the seller, prioritizing the derived items that are not available in the sales catalog, selecting items of the prioritized items to add to the sales catalog based on at least one threshold, establishing contracts for supplying the selected items, and adding the selected items to the sales catalog. The method further includes where the threshold is based on: constraints, commitments to a customer, priorities, sustainability goals, environmentally friendliness goals, warehouse space limitations and manufacturing capacity limitations.
CPC Classifications
G06Q 30/0603 G06Q 30/02043 G06Q 2220/00
Filing Date
2025-07-23
Application No.
19278225
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