Shopping assistance method and apparatus
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1. A shopping assistance method, comprising the steps of:
- (a) capturing, in respect of two or more shops, item data about items of interest at these shops, and store data indicative of the identity of the shops, at least the item data being captured at premises of the shops concerned;
(b) organising the captured data so as to associate each piece of item data captured with the store data for the shop where the item data was captured;
(c) presenting the captured data to show for each shop, information about the items of interest for which item data was captured in that shop.
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Abstract
A shopping assistance method and apparatus is provided in which a shopper captures information about an item of interest and either stores it in a handheld device or sends it over a mobile radio infrastructure to a service system for storage. When the shopper returns home, the shopper either downloads the captured data to a home PC or uses the latter to access the service system. In either case, the captured data is presented to the user as a personal shopping catalogue (80) showing, by shop visited (81), the items of interest (82, 83). The captured data can then be used to retrieve additional information, for example, from the websites of the shops concerned.
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1. A shopping assistance method, comprising the steps of:
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(a) capturing, in respect of two or more shops, item data about items of interest at these shops, and store data indicative of the identity of the shops, at least the item data being captured at premises of the shops concerned;
(b) organising the captured data so as to associate each piece of item data captured with the store data for the shop where the item data was captured;
(c) presenting the captured data to show for each shop, information about the items of interest for which item data was captured in that shop. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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23. A shopping-assistance computer program for controlling the operation of a general-purpose data processing apparatus, the computer program when running on the data processing apparatus, implementing:
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receiving means for receiving and storing both item data about items of interest at two or more shops, and store data indicative of the identity of said shops; and
presentation means for processing the received item and store data and presenting the processed data to show for each shop, information about the items of interest at that shop.
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