Wireless beacon shopping experience

• US 10,163,148 B1
• Filed: 11/13/2013
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Block, Inc. (f/k/a Square, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Square Inc (Block, Inc. (f/k/a Square, Inc.))
• Inventors: Chatterjee, Shuvo, Garg, Rishi
• Primary Examiner(s): Kazimi, Hani M
• Application Number:
  US14/079,320
• Time in Patent Office: 1,868 Days
• Field of Search: 705 35- 44, 705 267
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using wireless beacons to manage shopping lists. One of the methods includes receiving, from a user, a selection of one or more items available for purchase at a physical store location of a store. A user device receives a signal from a wireless beacon installed in a particular section of the physical store location, wherein the signal emitted by the wireless beacon identifies the particular section of the store. If one or more items in the shopping list are located in the particular section, the one or more identified items that are located in the particular section are presented on a display device of the user device such that they appear above one or more items in the shopping list data that are not located in the particular section.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

receiving, via a user interface presented on a user device, a selection of one or more items available for purchase at a physical store location of a store;

storing, on the user device, the selection of the one or more items as a shopping list;

receiving, by a receiver on the user device, a signal from a wireless beacon installed in a particular section of the physical store location, wherein the signal emitted by the wireless beacon identifies the particular section of the physical store location;

determining that the user device is currently located in the particular section based on the signal from the wireless beacon;

determining, by an application executing at least partly on the user device, a first subset of the one or more items in the shopping list that are located in the particular section;

responsive to a determination that the first subset of the one or more items are located in the particular section and without further input via the user interface, dynamically modifying an order of the shopping list, wherein a modified shopping list comprises the first subset of the one or more items above a second subset of the one or more items;

presenting the modified shopping list on a display of the user device;

determining, by the application executing at least partly on the user device, that a signal strength of the signal from the wireless beacon has remained above a threshold level for a threshold period of time; and

based at least in part on a determination that the signal strength has remained above the threshold level for the threshold period of time, automatically displaying an indication that at least one item of the first subset of the one or more items on the shopping list has been selected for purchase.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting a suggestion to add an item to a physical shopping cart for each item of the first subset of the one or more items.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting offer information related to an item of the first subset of the one or more items.

4. A computer implemented method comprising:

receiving, via a user interface presented on a user device, shopping list data that identifies one or more items of a shopping list, wherein each item of the one or more items is associated with a respective section of a physical store location;

determining, by the user device, that a user has entered a particular section of the physical store location based at least in part on a signal received by a receiver of the user device from a wireless beacon installed in the particular section of the store, wherein the signal identifies the particular section;

determining, by an application executing at least partly on the user device, a first subset of the one or more items of the shopping list that are located in the particular section;

based at least in part on a determination that the first subset of the one or more items are located in the particular section, automatically modifying an order of the shopping list without further input via the user interface, wherein a modified shopping list comprises the first subset of the one or more items above a second subset of the one or more items; and

presenting, via the user interface on the user device, a suggestion to add an item to the modified shopping list for each item of the first subset of the one or more items that are located in the particular section.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising presenting, via the user interface presented on the user device, the modified shopping list.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

generating a ranking of the one or more items in the modified shopping list, wherein items in the first subset of the one or more items occur higher in the ranking than other items that are not located in the particular section.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the ranking of the one or more items is based on a computed distance from the location of the user device to respective sections for the one or more items in the modified shopping list.

8. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

receiving a user selection of a particular item of the first subset of the one or more items; and

presenting an indication that the particular item has been selected.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

reordering the first subset of the one or more items in the shopping list in response to receiving the user selection of the particular item, wherein items that have not been selected occur higher in the order than items that have been selected.

10. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining that the user has remained in the particular section for at least a threshold period of time; and

automatically designating one or more items of the first subset of the one or more items as having been selected by the user.

11. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

obtaining an offer related to one or more items of the first subset of the one or more items; and

presenting the offer on the user interface presented on the user device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the offer is based on a purchase history of the user.

13. A system comprising:

a wireless beacon located in a particular section of a store, wherein the wireless beacon is configured to emit a signal that encodes a section identifier of the particular section; and

a user device that is configured to;

receive, via a user interface, shopping list data that identifies one or more items of a shopping list, wherein each item of the one or more items is associated with a respective section of a physical store location;

receive, by a receiver, the signal emitted by the wireless beacon located in the particular section;

determine the section identifier from the received signal;

determine a first subset of the one or more items of the shopping list that are located in the particular section;

responsive to a determination that the first subset of the one or more items are located in the particular section and without further input via the user interface, dynamically modify an order of the one or more items of the shopping list, wherein a modified order comprises the first subset of the one or more items above a second subset of the one or more items; and

present, on a display, a suggestion to add an item to a list of selected items for each item of the first subset of the one or more items.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving, via a user interface presented on a user device, shopping list data that identifies one or more items of a shopping list, wherein each item of the one or more items is associated with a respective section of a physical store location;

determining that the user device is currently located in a particular section of the physical store location based at least in part on a signal received by a receiver of the user device from a wireless beacon installed in the particular section of the store, wherein the signal identifies the particular section;

determining a first subset of the one or more items of the shopping list that are located in the particular section;

based at least in part on a determination that the first subset of the one or more items are located in the particular section, automatically, and without further input via the user interface, modifying an order of the shopping list, wherein a modified shopping list comprises the first subset of the one or more items above a second subset of the one or more items; and

presenting, via the user interface on the user device, a suggestion to add an item to the modified shopping list for each item of the first subset of the one or more items.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise presenting, via the user interface presented on the user device, the modified shopping list.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating a ranking of the one or more items in the shopping list, wherein items in the first subset of the one or more items occur higher in the ranking than other items that are not located in the particular section.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the ranking of the one or more items is based on a computed distance from a location of the user device to respective sections for the one or more items in the shopping list.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a user selection of a particular item of the first subset of the one or more items; and

presenting an indication that the particular item has been selected.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

reordering the first subset of the one or more items in the shopping list in response to receiving the user selection of the particular item, wherein items that have not been selected occur higher in the order than items that have been selected.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the user device has remained in the particular section for at least a threshold period of time; and

automatically designating the first subset of the one or more items as having been selected by the user.