Methods and systems for virtual fitting rooms or hybrid stores

• US 10,332,176 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2014
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Gadre, Akshay, Breslin, Kerri
• Primary Examiner(s): Fadok, Mark A
• Application Number:
  US14/472,125
• Publication Number:
  US 20160063588A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,762 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

Disclosed are a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for digital inventories. An application interface module receives a request message from a user device at a physical store location linked to an online marketplace. The request message indicates a request to determine availability of a target item at the physical store location. The user device is linked to a user. In response to the request message, a database management module accesses inventory data of the online marketplace. An inventory engine determines whether the target item is available at the physical store location. Based on a determination that the target item is not available at the target store, a graphics processing module generates a digital representation of the user and the target item for display within a user interface rendered on the user device.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more hardware processors; and

a machine-readable medium for storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving, from a user device at a physical store location, a request message to determine availability of a target item at the physical store location, the user device being associated with a user, the physical store location being linked to an online marketplace;

accessing, in response to the receiving of the request message, inventory data of the online marketplace at a record of a database;

determining, based on the accessed inventory data, that the target item is not available at the physical store location;

causing display of a user interface on the user device associated with the user, the user interface indicating that the target item is not available at the physical store location;

generating, based on a determination that the target item is not available at the physical store location and based on a determination that the target item is available on the online marketplace, a digital representation of the user and of the target item using measurement data stored in a data structure associated with a user account of the user;

in response to the user interface indicating that the target item is not available at the physical store location, receiving one or more requests from the user device to present the digital representation of the user and of the target item in a digital fitting room associated with the user, and to share access to the digital representation of the user and of the target item in the digital fitting room with a third-party device;

based on the one or more requests received from the user device, performing a write operation to write, to a linking data field of the data structure associated with the user account of the user, data indicative of the third-party device allowed to access the data structure associated with the user account of the user, the performing of the write operation transforming access privileges of the user account; and

based on the performing of the write operation, enhancing the user interface, the enhancing of the user interface including;

causing display, in the user interface on the user device and in a further user interface on the third-party device, of the digital representation of the user and of the target item in the digital fitting room associated with the user, and

causing display of one or more user interface elements in the user interface on the user device and in the further user interface on the third-party device for providing, receiving, or displaying data associated with the digital representation of the user and of the target item in the digital fitting room associated with the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the request message includes image data of an identifier of a physical item corresponding to the target item, and

wherein the operations further comprise:

processing the image data to determine the identifier; and

wherein the determining that the target item is not available at the physical store location includes searching the inventory data for an item record matching the identifier.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

providing a graphical indicator for display on a client device linked to the online marketplace and linked to the physical store location, the graphical indicator indicating that the user associated with the user device provided the request message.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying the physical store location based on a location of the user device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving device localization data;

determining a location of the user device based on the device localization data; and

identifying the physical store location based on the location of the user device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving coordinate data pertaining to the user device; and

identifying the physical store location based on the coordinate pertaining to the user device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the request message includes an identifier of a second item and variation data, and

wherein the operations further comprise:

determining the target item based on the request message by determining an item corresponding to the second item modified by the variation data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the variation data are indicative of modifying at least one of a size or a color of the second item.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the digital representation corresponds to a digital avatar of the user, the digital avatar being based on measurement data stored in the user account of the user.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the digital avatar includes selected personal items of a digital closet linked to the user account of the user.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the digital representation corresponds to the target item superimposed onto a video image of the user.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the digital representation corresponds to the target item superimposed onto a video image of the user, the video image being captured by the user device in substantially real time.

13. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, from a user device at a physical store location, a request message to determine availability of a target item at the physical store location, the user device being associated with a user, the physical store location being linked to an online marketplace;

accessing, in response to the receiving of the request message, inventory data of the online marketplace at a record of a database;

determining, based on the accessed inventory data, that the target item is not available at the physical store location;

causing display of a user interface on the user device associated with the user, the user interface indicating that the target item is not available at the physical store location;

generating, using one or more hardware processors, based on a determination that the target item is not available at the physical store location and based on a determination that the target item is available on the online marketplace, a digital representation of the user and of the target item using measurement data stored in a data structure associated with a user account of the user;

in response to the user interface indicating that the target item is not available at the physical store location, receiving one or more requests from the user device to present the digital representation of the user and of the target item in a digital fitting room associated with the user, and to share access to the digital representation of the user and of the target item in the digital fitting room with a third-party device;

based on the one or more requests received from the user device, performing a write operation to write, to a linking data field of the data structure associated with the user account of the user, data indicative of the third-party device allowed to access the data structure associated with the user account of the user, the performing of the write operation transforming access privileges of the user account; and

based on the performing of the write operation, enhancing the user interface, the enhancing of the user interface including;

causing display, in the user interface on the user device and in a further user interface on the third-party device, of the digital representation of the user and of the target item in the digital fitting room associated with the user, and

causing display of one or more user interface elements in the user interface on the user device and in the further user interface on the third-party device for providing, receiving, or displaying data associated with the digital representation of the user and of the target item in the digital fitting room associated with the user.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising:

processing image data of an identifier of a physical item corresponding to the target item, the image data being included with the request message,

wherein the determining that the target item is not available at the physical store location includes searching the inventory data for an item record matching the identifier.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising:

providing a graphical indicator for display on a client device linked to the online marketplace and linked to the physical store location, the graphical indicator indicating that the user associated with the user device provided the request message.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the identifying of the physical store location is based on a location of the user device.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving device localization data;

determining a location of the user device based on the device localization data; and

identifying the physical store location based on location of the user device.

18. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more hardware processors of a machine, cause the one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a user device at a physical store location, a request message to determine availability of a target item at the physical store location, the user device being associated with a user, the physical store location being linked to an online marketplace;

accessing, in response to the receiving of the request message, inventory data of the online marketplace at a record of a database;

determining, based on the accessed inventory data, that the target item is not available at the physical store location;

causing display of a user interface on the user device associated with the user, the user interface indicating that the target item is not available at the physical store location;

generating, based on a determination that the target item is not available at the physical store location and based on a determination that the target item is available on the online marketplace, a digital representation of the user and of the target item using measurement data stored in a data structure associated with a user account of the user;

in response to the user interface indicating that the target item is not available at the physical store location, receiving one or more requests from the user device to present the digital representation of the user and of the target item in a digital fitting room associated with the user, and to share access to the digital representation of the user and of the target item in the digital fitting room with a third-party device;

based on the one or more requests received from the user device, performing a write operation to write, to a linking data field of the data structure associated with the user account of the user, data indicative of the third-party device allowed to access the data structure associated with the user account of the user, the performing of the write operation transforming access privileges of the user account; and

based on the performing of the write operation, enhancing the user interface, the enhancing of the user interface including;

causing display, in the user interface on the user device and in a further user interface on the third-party device, of the digital representation of the user and of the target item in the digital fitting room associated with the user, and

causing display of one or more user interface elements in the user interface on the user device and in the further user interface on the third-party device for providing, receiving, or displaying data associated with the digital representation of the user and of the target item in the digital fitting room associated with the user.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

processing image data of an identifier of a physical item corresponding to the target item, the image data being included with the request message,

wherein the determining that the target item is not available at the physical store location includes searching the inventory data for an item record matching the identifier.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

providing a graphical indicator for display on a client device linked to the online marketplace and linked to the physical store location, the graphical indicator indicating that the user associated with the user device provided the request message.