Identification scheme for a communication device

• US 20040147270A1
• Filed: 05/12/2003
• Published: 07/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Inventors: Petrovich, Adam M.
• Granted Patent: US 7,155,405 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/327 Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3276 using a pictured code, e.g. barcode or QR-code, being read by the M-device
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0222 During e-commerce, i.e. online transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0238 at point-of-sale [POS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0268 at point-of-sale [POS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0045 with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/145 PLU-management

Abstract

Architecture for presenting m-commerce transaction data to a user. An m-commerce device includes a device reading apparatus adapted to read a dataform. At least one item for purchase has associated therewith an item dataform readable by the m-commerce device, the item dataform linked to item information of the item. A terminal is provided for interactive presentation of information to the user. The m-commerce device and terminal are in communication over a network such that item information input to the m-commerce device is transmitted to the terminal for interactive presentation to the user.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates presenting user transaction data to a user, comprising:

a terminal that communicates at least product-related and/or service-related information to a user; and

an m-commerce device capable of reading a dataform corresponding to a product and/or service, the m-commerce device communicating product and/or service data to the terminal, wherein the terminal communicates the product-related and/or service-related information to the user.

2. The system of claim 1, the terminal communicating the information to the user in response to the user entering within a predetermined proximity to the terminal.

3. The system of claim 1, the product-related and/or service-related information comprising information supplemental to that of the product-related and/or service-related data.

4. The system of claim 3, the terminal providing information regarding secondary products and/or secondary services that is related to the product and/or service.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a classifier that facilitates determining the type of information to be presented to the user via the terminal.

6. The system of claim 5, the classifier comprising a support vector machine.

7. The system of claim 5, the classifier comprising a Bayesian network.

8. The system of claim 5, the classifier being explicitly and implicitly trained.

9. The system of claim 1, the m-commerce device reading a terminal dataform of the terminal, in response to which the product-related and/or service-related information is presented to the user.

10. The system of claim 9, the m-commerce device transmitting terminal dataform data representative of the terminal dataform.

11. The system of claim 9, the terminal dataform uniquely associated with the location of the terminal.

12. The system of claim 9, the m-commerce device transmitting terminal dataform data representative of the terminal dataform to a server, which server includes an association of the terminal dataform data and the location information of the terminal.

13. The system of claim 1, in response to the m-commerce device reading the product and/or service dataform, the product and/or service data is stored in the m-commerce device and the user product and/or service data information presented to the user via the m-commerce device.

14. The system of claim 1, the product and/or service data communicated wirelessly to the terminal.

15. The system of claim 1, the product and/or service data communicated wirelessly via a global communication network to the terminal.

16. The system of claim 1, the location of the user determined from the location of the dataform that has been read.

17. The system of claim 16, the user presented with predicted product and/or service data via the m-commerce device according to the user location.

18. The system of claim 1, the direction of the user determined from the location of at least two dataforms that have been read.

19. The system of claim 18, the user presented with predicted product and/or service data via the m-commerce device according to the direction the user is heading.

20. The system of claim 1, the m-commerce device receiving an electronic coupon in response to the dataform being read.

21. The system of claim 20, the electronic coupon transmitted and applied automatically to the transaction.

22. The system of claim 1, the terminal reading an m-commerce dataform of the m-commerce device, in response to which the product-related and/or service-related information is presented to the user.

23. The system of claim 22, the terminal transmitting data representative of the m-commerce dataform to a server, which server includes an association of the dataform with the product-related and/or service-related information.

24. The system of claim 1, the m-commerce device transmitting the product-related and/or service-related information over at least one of a wired and wireless network on which the terminal is disposed.

25. The system of claim 1, the terminal including a terminal dataform that is at least one of a bar code, encoded in association with a transponder system, encoded in association with an RFID system and a magnetically encoded media.

26. The system of claim 1, the product-related and/or service-related information transmitted wirelessly from the m-commerce device over a network to the terminal, which network comprises at least one of a global communication network, LAN, WAN, and WWAN.

27. The system of claim 1, the m-commerce device presenting at least one of advertising information and preferences information to the user.

28. The system of claim 1, further comprising presenting at least one of advertising information and preferences information to the user via the terminal.

29. The system of claim 1, the dataform presented on a sign in association with a first product and/or service, after which the sign is reused such that the dataform presented on the sign is reassociated with a second product and/or service.

30. The system of claim 29, the user reads the dataform with the m-commerce device to indicate interest and/or intent in the corresponding first product and/or service, in response to which the user receives information related and/or unrelated to the dataform.

31. The system of claim 1, a plurality of dataforms presented on a signboard in association with corresponding products and/or services, the signboard further associated with a promotional program that includes the products and/or services.

32. The system of claim 31, the user reads at least one of the plurality of dataforms with the m-commerce device to indicate interest and/or intent in the corresponding first product and/or service, in response to which the user receives information related and/or unrelated to the dataform.

33. A system for presenting user transaction data to a user, comprising:

means for reading a terminal dataform of a terminal to obtain a unique terminal identifier associated with the terminal;

means for transmitting item information and the terminal identifier to a network server;

means for comparing the terminal identifier with a database of terminal location data of the network server to obtain the terminal location data associated with the terminal identifier; and

means for transmitting the item information to the terminal in accordance with the terminal location data for presentation to the user.

34. The system of claim 33, the dataform being at least one of a bar code, encoded in association with a transponder system, encoded in association with an RFID system, and a magnetically encoded media.

35. The system of claim 33, the item information comprising at least one of product information and service information.

36. The system of claim 33 presenting the item information to the user.

37. The system of claim 33, the user causing a device to read the item dataform associated with the item information, the item information being stored in the device until transmitted in response the act of reading.

38. The system of claim 33, further comprising presenting at least one of advertising information and user preferences information to the user via the m-commerce device.

39. A method presenting user transaction data to a user, comprising:

receiving an m-commerce device capable of reading a dataform;

storing item of commerce-related data in response to the m-commerce device reading an item of commerce dataform; and

presenting the item of commerce-related data to the user via a terminal in response to a device dataform associated with at least one of the m-commerce device and the terminal, being read.

40. The method of claim 39 presenting at least one of advertising information and user preferences information to the user via the terminal in response to the device dataform being read.

41. The method of claim 39, the terminal presenting information of secondary items of commerce that is related to the item of commerce.

42. The method of claim 39, the device dataform associated with the m-commerce device such that the terminal reads the m-commerce device dataform and automatically presents the item of commerce-related data to the user via the terminal.

43. The method of claim 39, the device dataform associated with the terminal such that the m-commerce device reads the terminal device dataform, in response to which the terminal automatically presents the item of commerce-related data to the user.

44. The method of claim 39, the item of commerce data stored in at least one of the m-commerce device, a server local to the terminal, and a server remote to the terminal.

45. The method of claim 39, further comprising presenting user preferences information to the user via at least one of the m-commerce device and the terminal, the preferences information presented by,

automatically accessing a remote web site of preferences information;

retrieving the preferences information; and

presenting the preferences information to the user along with the item of commerce-related data.

46. The method of claim 39, the user confirming purchase of selected items of commerce via at least one of the m-commerce device and the terminal.

47. The method of claim 39, further comprising transmitting the item of commerce-related data from the m-commerce device after at least one of a single item of commerce dataform has been read and a plurality of item of commerce dataforms have been read.

48. The method of claim 39, the item of commerce-related data transmitted wirelessly from the m-commerce device over a network to the terminal, which network comprises at least one of a global communication network, LAN, and WAN.

49. The method of claim 39, further comprising transmitting device dataform data to an intermediate server to perform a look-up operation in order to determine the location of the terminal.

50. The method of claim 39, the terminal dataform is at least one of a bar code, encoded in association with a transponder system, encoded in association with an RFID system, and a magnetically encoded media.

51. The method of claim 39, the item of commerce dataform included in an item of commerce logo.

52. The method of claim 39, further comprising transmitting coupon data to at least one of the m-commerce device and terminal in response to the item of commerce dataform being read.

53. The method of claim 52, the coupon data utilized at the point of sale.

54. The method of claim 39, the m-commerce device being a personal device such that the device dataform of the m-commerce device is read when the user enters a store, in response to which user preferences information is automatically transmitted to the m-commerce device.

55. The method of claim 39, the item of commerce dataform included on at least one of a sign and a signboard, the sign is reusable such that the associated item of commerce dataform is reassociated with a second item of commerce at a later time.

56. A method presenting user transaction data to a user, comprising:

receiving an m-commerce device capable of reading a dataform;

storing an item of commerce-related data in response to the m-commerce device reading an item of commerce dataform;

transmitting the stored item of commerce-related data to a central server, the central server storing the item of commerce-related data in association with the user;

reading a terminal dataform of a terminal with the m-commerce device;

transmitting terminal dataform data of the terminal dataform to the central server;

retrieving and transmitting the item of commerce-related data associated with the terminal dataform data to the terminal; and

presenting the item of commerce-related data to the user via the terminal.

57. The method of claim 56, further comprising presenting user preferences information to the user via at least one of the m-commerce device and the terminal, the preferences information presented by,

automatically accessing a remote web site of preferences information;

retrieving the preferences information; and

presenting the preferences information to the user along with the item of commerce-related data.

58. The method of claim 56, the dataform is at least one of a bar code and portable data file format.