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System and method for communicating information to a customer at a point-of-sale via a wireless link within a retail store

  • US 10,083,467 B2
  • Filed: 11/06/2009
  • Issued: 09/25/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for providing customers of a retailer with information during checkout, said system comprising:

  • a server configured to store and communicate data via a communications network the data including information unrelated to performing a transaction of goods being sold by the retailer;

    a point-of-sale (POS) system at which the customers of the retailer purchase products, said POS system being in communication with said server via the communications network;

    a wireless access point in communication with said POS system and configured to operate as an access point for mobile devices associated with the customers to communicate with said POS system, said wireless access point being configured to;

    (i) detect which of the mobile devices that has the highest signal power, (ii) attempt to pair with a detected one of the mobile devices (iii) subsequently and separately request permission to communicate with the detected one of the mobile devices after pairing with the detected one of the mobile devices, (iv) detect a mobile identifier associated with the detected one of the mobile devices (v) retrieve a profile of a user of the detected one of the mobile devices;

    (vi) retrieve data based on the profile of the user (vii) prior to communicating the data to the detected one of the mobile devices, to receive permission from the customer via the detected one of the mobile devices in response to requesting permission to allow for the data to be communicated to the detected one of the mobile devices from the POS system, said POS system further configured to receive the data from said server and communicate the data to the detected one of the mobile devices via said wireless access point;

    an application being executed on the detected one of the mobile devices and communicating with the POS system, the application configured to;

    (i) receive the data from the POS system, (ii) determine the data type of data received from the POS system (iii) store the data in a memory of the detected one of the mobile devices based on data type (iv) distinguish the data received from the POS system from data received from other data sources in the memory of the detected one of the mobile devices (v) receive a request for a search (vi) execute a search in the data received from the POS system; and

    wherein, the wireless access point is configured to restrict receipt of data other than the permission received, from the detected one of the mobile devices.

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