Household shopping programming assistant system and methods

• US 20090254446A1
• Filed: 04/01/2009
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Valentin Chernyak
• Original Assignee: Valentin Chernyak
• Inventors: Chernyak, Valentin
• Application Number:
  US12/384,123
• Publication Number:
  US 20090254446A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

Household shopping assistant system that stores the individual household purchasing requests and preferences in a centralized server with a data base and allows for shopping list retrieval via mobile phone web access and/or via SMS messaging. A method of storing individual purchasing requests and preferences and selective delivery to the shopper'"'"'s mobile phone(s) and PDA(s). A method for optimizing the shopping list based on product attributes, availability of said products in stores, location of said products within said stores and driving distance between said stores.

Claims

1. A household purchasing and preferences management system, comprising:

(a) a households data store of individual accounts for members of a household;

(b) a retailers data store of store information comprising addresses, phones, hours of operation, departments and layout of those departments within stores;

(c) a products data store comprising descriptions, units of measure, sale prices, and other user-defined attributes of individual products, as well as a link to the retailers data store which specifies at which stores the product can be purchased;

(d) a shopping lists data store comprising transactional information about requests for products made by household members

(e) a purchase history data store comprising transactional information about purchases of said products made by said household members at said retailers

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising mobile internet accessible interface module in communication with said retailer data store and said product data store for changing any information on the listed retailers, departments and products.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising mobile internet accessible interface module in communication with said data store for adding products to the shopping list online (ordering of products), which can be done by multiple household members simultaneously.

7. A computer implemented method comprising

(a) identifying previous purchase date for requested product from a purchase history data store;

(b) comparing an elapsed time since last purchase to a user defined limit;

(c) using a household purchasing and preferences management system of claim 1 wherein the system of claim 1 is configured to disallow requests for the products that were bought within a set time period, in order to prevent unintentional duplication

4. A method for continuously forming and publishing an aggregate shopping list online, comprising:

(a) selecting selected products from a product data store

(b) selecting retailers from a retail data store where the said products are available for sale

(c) selecting the member of the household making the request from a household data store

(d) selecting previous purchase history date for the requested product from a purchase data store

(e) publishing the aggregate shopping list online and making it available to-any shoppers via methods selected from the group consisting of mobile phone(s), web access, SMS, Email or Print.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising accessing the shopping list via a mobile device browser comprising and

a) interactively accessing the shopping list

b) checking purchased products off directly on said shopping list

c) recording said information in the purchasing history data store

6. The method of claim 4 further comprising the step of interactively requesting the central computer to send an SMS with the aggregate shopping list to a requesting phone.

8. A computer-implemented method for optimizing a shopping list comprising next steps:

resorting of an information from a shopping lists data store

further comprising transactional information about requests for products made by household members and displaying shopping list information to an user,

(a) aggregating similar products;

(b) sorting a list based on the layout of departments within a store where the said products can be found;

(c) grouping said list by said stores displaying first the store where the maximum number of products can be obtained;

(d) sequencing stores based on minimum driving time between said stores, based on the store locations.

9. A social networking and information sharing system, comprising:

(a) a module enabling members to exchange information about stores, departments and products;

(b) a import/export module for importing and exporting full stores descriptions and departmental layouts;

(c) chat rooms and bulletin boards for recommending stores and products to other household members inside or outside of the household;

(d) a ratings module for rating the stores and the products and making those ratings visible to others.