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Devices for tracking retail interactions with goods and association to user accounts for cashier-less transactions

  • US 10,140,820 B1
  • Filed: 12/31/2017
  • Issued: 11/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for tracking items in a physical store for processing cashier-less purchase transactions, comprising:

  • detecting a portable wireless coded communication (WCC) device in the physical store, the WCC device is associated with an on-line account of a shopper;

    receiving, by a server, sensor data regarding the WCC device, its location in the physical store and proximity to items in the physical store;

    receiving, by the server, interaction data of an item on a shelf of the physical store by the shopper using one or more sensors of the physical store and the WCC device to determine that the item is one targeted for purchase, the interaction data is configured to identify a type of said item and add it to an electronic shopping cart of the shopper having the on-line account for processing said cashier-less purchase transactions; and

    processing, by the server, an electronic charge to a payment service of the shopper for the item;

    wherein one or more additional wireless-coded communications (WCC) devices are used at the physical store to facilitate one or more shoppers making purchases of products on a single shopping account as a group of shoppers, wherein a status of a shopping list tied to the on-line account is updated in substantial real-time for each shopper in the group of shoppers upon any item being taken by any member of the group of shoppers.

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