CART COORDINATOR/DEPLOYMENT MANAGER
First Claim
1. A media enhanced shopping cart, comprising:
- a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, and a plurality of wheels; and
an embedded computing device comprising a central processing unit, a memory, a download receiver module, and a network transceiver configured for wireless communication, the embedded computing device being attached to the shopping cart,wherein the download receiver module receives and stores in the memory a download via the network transceiver.
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Abstract
A media enhanced shopping cart system comprises a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, a base tray, a plurality of wheels, a read component for performing a proximity scan of the shopping cart, a locationing component for determining a location of the shopping cart within a store based on the scan, and a display component for displaying at least one advertisement for a product based on the location of the shopping cart within the store, wherein the locationing component is further operable to determine a location of the product within the store relative to the shopping cart based on the scan, and wherein the display component is further operable to display an indication of the location of the advertised product relative to the location of the shopping cart.
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20 Claims
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1. A media enhanced shopping cart, comprising:
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a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, and a plurality of wheels; and an embedded computing device comprising a central processing unit, a memory, a download receiver module, and a network transceiver configured for wireless communication, the embedded computing device being attached to the shopping cart, wherein the download receiver module receives and stores in the memory a download via the network transceiver. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system comprising:
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a store computer system comprising at least a central processing unit, a data server storing store cart-related software, and a deployment manager module, wherein the deployment manager module is operable to convey a download to a media enhanced shopping cart; a plurality of media enhanced shopping carts, each media enhanced shopping cart comprising; a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, a plurality of wheels, and a basket; an embedded computing device comprising a central processing unit, a memory, a network transceiver configured for wireless communication with the store computer system, wherein the embedded computing device is affixed to the shopping cart;
wherein the embedded computing device receives the download from the deployment manager module;a locationing component for determining a location of the cart within a store relative to the one or more anchor RFID tags; and a display component attached to the cart, wherein the display component displays the location of the cart relative to the specific point of store data, advertising, or combinations thereof. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 14, 15)
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13. A method comprising:
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maintaining a cart status for a media enabled shopping cart, wherein the cart status comprises cart health, software versioning, location of the cart, or combinations thereof; and periodically transmitting the cart status from the cart to an in-store system. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 20)
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18. A method comprising:
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periodically receiving a cart status from each cart in a fleet, wherein the cart status comprises cart health, software versioning, location of each cart or combinations thereof; and maintaining a current status database for the fleet comprising the cart status for each cart in the fleet. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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