Location based creation of a catalog for a user

• US 20070185785A1
• Filed: 02/09/2006
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Smith, Newton, Carlson, Michael, Spinac, Clifford, Lisle, Linda
• Application Number:
  US11/351,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20070185785A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

A method of, and an apparatus and computer usable program code for, dynamically creating an electronic catalog for a user by a catalog provider. At the outset, the catalog is created by identifying a current location of the user and receiving a second location. The contents of the catalog are determined based on the locations. The format for presenting the catalog is determined based on the second location and attributes associated with the user. In response to identifying a change in the first location, the contents of the catalog are adjusted dynamically. Upon requesting checkout of an online shopping basket that contains items of selected catalog entries, the items in the shopping basket are identified as either available or not available for checkout, based on the current location of the requesting user. When a change is detected in the user'"'"'s location, the contents of the online shopping basket are adjusted dynamically based on the changed location.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of dynamically creating a catalog for a user by a catalog provider, the method comprising:

identifying a first location, wherein the first location is a current location of the user;

receiving a second location; and

creating a catalog by the catalog provider, wherein the contents of the catalog are determined based on the identified first location and the received second location.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising presenting the catalog using a format based on the second location.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying a changed first location in response to detecting a change in the first location; and

adjusting the contents of the catalog in response to detecting a change in the first location.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 3 wherein adjusting the contents of the catalog further comprises:

adding a catalog entry of an item that is available at the changed first location but not available at the first location; and

removing a catalog entry of an item not available at the changed first location.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying at least one attribute associated with the user; and

adjusting the contents of the catalog by the catalog provider in response to identifying at least one attribute associated with the user.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein identifying at least one attribute associated with the user comprises identifying at least one property from:

a user profile, a location profile, and a travel profile.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

selecting at least one entry of an item from the catalog by the user; and

storing the selected at least one entry of an item in an online shopping basket for checkout.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 7 wherein checkout of the online shopping basket is performed at the second location.

9. A system for dynamically creating a catalog for a user by a catalog provider, the system comprising:

means for identifying a first location, wherein the first location is a current location of the user;

means for receiving a second location; and

means for creating a catalog by the catalog provider, wherein the contents of the catalog are determined based on the identified first location and the received second location.

10. The system of claim 9 further comprising means for presenting the catalog using a format based on the second location.

11. The system of claim 9 further comprising:

means for identifying a changed first location in response to detecting a change in the first location; and

means for adjusting the contents of the catalog in response to detecting a change in the first location.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the means for adjusting the contents of the catalog further comprises:

means for adding a catalog entry of an item that is available at the changed first location but not available at the first location; and

means for removing a catalog entry of an item not available at the changed first location.

13. The system of claim 9 further comprising:

means for identifying at least one attribute associated with the user; and

means for adjusting the contents of the catalog by the catalog provider in response to identifying at least one attribute associated with the user.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the means for identifying at least one attribute associated with the user comprises means for identifying at least one property from:

a user profile, a location profile, and a travel profile.

15. The system of claim 9 further comprising:

means for selecting at least one entry of an item from the catalog by the user; and

means for storing the selected at least one entry of an item in an online shopping basket for checkout.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein checkout of the online shopping basket is performed at the second location.

17. A computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium including computer usable program code for dynamically creating a catalog for a user by a catalog provider, said computer program product comprising;

computer usable program code for identifying a first location, wherein the first location is a current location of the user;

computer usable program code for receiving a second location; and

computer usable program code for creating a catalog, wherein the contents of the catalog are determined based on the identified first location and the received second location.

18. A computer implemented method of performing checkout of an online shopping basket by a service provider, the method comprising:

identifying a current location of a user requesting checkout of an online shopping basket;

receiving a request for checkout of the shopping basket and the identified location;

determining whether at least one item in the shopping basket of the received request for checkout is available for checkout at the identified current location; and

completing the checkout of the shopping basket for the at least one item in the shopping basket determined to be available for checkout at the identified current location.

19. The computer implemented method of claim 18, further comprising:

determining whether at least one item in the shopping basket is not available for checkout at the identified current location; and

creating a signal to indicate that the at least one item in the shopping basket is not available for checkout in response to determining that at least one item in the shopping basket is not available for checkout at the identified current location.

20. The computer implemented method of claim 19, wherein creating a signal to indicate that the at least one item in the shopping basket is not available for checkout further comprises presenting a message to the user to indicate that the at least one item in the shopping basket is not available for checkout.

21. The computer implemented method of claim 19, further comprising:

calculating a total amount of the shopping basket that includes all of the items in the shopping basket; and

calculating a checkout amount of the shopping basket that includes the items in the shopping basket available for checkout at the identified current location and excludes all of the items in the shopping basket not available for checkout at the identified current location.

22. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

detecting a change in the identified current location of the user;

identifying a changed current location of the user in response to detecting a change in the identified current location of the user; and

adjusting the contents of the shopping basket responsive to identifying a changed current location of the user.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein adjusting the contents of the shopping basket further comprises indicating at least one change in the shopping basket in response to identifying a changed current location of the user.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein indicating at least one change in the shopping basket further comprises:

calculating an updated shopping basket total amount that includes all of the items in the shopping basket; and

calculating an updated checkout amount of the shopping basket amount that includes the items available for checkout at the identified changed current location and excludes the items not available for checkout at the identified changed current location of the user.