System and method for home product delivery

• US 20060271437A1
• Filed: 05/24/2006
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Media IP Holdings LLC
• Original Assignee: Media IP Holdings LLC
• Inventors: Maggio, Frank S.
• Application Number:
  US11/439,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20060271437A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/346
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0281 Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/00 Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
• 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 1/14 Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit data transmission in general H04L; telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station H04Q9/00

Abstract

Methods and systems for receiving orders for products, such as groceries, from a consumer and delivering the ordered products to the consumer'"'"'s homes include receiving orders generated by scanning a product'"'"'s bar code. Based on the bar code information, information for the used product, competing products, and complimentary products can be presented to the Consumer. The consumer selects a product, and the selection is communicated to the product deliverer for scheduled home delivery to the consumer. The consumer can scan the bar code, receive product options, and transmit orders to the home grocery delivery provider by utilizing a hand-held device to communicate data corresponding with a desired product to a server computer, which can communicate with a store that will deliver the product to the consumer. The grocery provider can stock common home delivery items in a separate store section to allow quick in-store shopping of those common items.

Claims

1. A method for generating a product order and delivering the ordered product to a consumer, comprising the steps of:

receiving data communicated from the consumer'"'"'s home and generated from a bar code associated with a product;

identifying the product associated with the data generated from the bar code;

communicating the identified product to an entity capable of delivering the product; and

delivering the identified product by the entity to the consumer'"'"'s home.

2. A method for stocking products available for home delivery in a store, comprising the steps of:

identifying a limited number of home-delivery products that are available for a consumer to order from their home and that the store will deliver to the consumer'"'"'s home;

stocking a portion of the store with the limited number of home-delivery products; and

stocking another portion of the store with non-home-delivery products and the home-delivery products.