Method for ordering and distributing a product ordered online

• US 10,223,735 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2014
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Worldline
• Original Assignee: Worldline
• Inventors: Lefebvre, Guillaume, Poly, Jacques, Herault, Colombe, Faivre, Denis
• Primary Examiner(s): Allen, William J
• Application Number:
  US15/024,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20160307261A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,623 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0625 Directed, with specific intent or strategy
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/413 Classification of content, e.g. text, photographs or tables

Abstract

A system for ordering a product online includes a communicating object configured to order a set of products referenced in a database by means of an order signal (CMD), and a database for listing a set of products corresponding to the order signal (CMD). A server is in communication with said database and is configured to publish a list of said set of ordered products. A computer likely to validate said list such that the communicating object may be a mobile device provided with a processor, a random access memory (RAM) and a hibernation software program such that the processor is stopped and the content of the random access memory (RAM) is not kept when said communicating object has not been used for a predefined period, or depending on the status of the communicating object.

Claims

1. A system for a customer to order a product on line comprising:

network equipment for access to the Internet,

a smart object comprising a control device comprising at least one device among an optical capture device, an audio recording device and a magnetic or electromagnetic capture device, the smart object being capable of communicating with the network equipment and being configured to order a first set of products referenced in a database through an order signal (CMP);

the database structured according to a set of sort criteria, referencing a set of products and comprising a search engine configured to list a second set of products corresponding to the order signal (CMP);

a server, accessible through the internet, in communication with the database and configured to publish the list of the second set of products on line from the database using the smart object;

a computer, connected to the Internet, configured to access the server, through the network equipment or other network equipment enabling access to the Internet, to validate the list;

wherein the smart object is portable equipment comprising a processor, RAM (Random Access Memory), and hibernation software in which, when the smart object is not used for a predetermined duration or as a function of the state of the smart object, the processor stops and the content of the RAM is not kept;

wherein at least some products in the database are grouped in a set of predefined groups, each of the predefined groups being associated with a customer, identified by an individual name or an individual graphic symbol and corresponding to at least one database criterion;

the user is enabled to define and modify the individual name, the individual graphic symbol or the content of a given one of the predefined groups, wherein the content of each of the predefined groups is associated with a predetermined number of persons;

wherein,

the order signal (CMD) is a voice signal, and

the database comprises a correspondence between the name of a predefined group, products in the predefined group and a number of persons;

the system further comprising a voice recognition device and a second.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the control device comprises an audio recording device configured to implement a voice recognition process comprising identification of a set of at least one keyword in a voice recording and verification that the set of at least one keyword corresponds to one of the at least one database sort criterion, the order signal (CMD) comprising the set of at least one keyword.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein the database comprises a history of purchases made by the customer, wherein the second computer is configured to list products corresponding to the order signal (CMD) by using the order signal (CMD) combined with the history of the purchases made by the customer.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein at least some of the set of sort criteria in the database are hierarchized, such that one of the set of sort criterion may be a subset of another one of the set of sort criterion.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein the database comprises a memory space in which the customer can record correspondence between the individual name or individual graphic symbol of a group and products in the predefined group.

6. A system according to claim 1 wherein the database comprises a set of cooking recipes or communicates with a cooking recipe database.

7. A system according to claim 1 further comprising a sound reproduction device.