METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ITEM COLLECTION IN A SHOP

• US 20110082765A1
• Filed: 06/09/2009
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yitzhak Mazor
• Original Assignee: Yitzhak Mazor
• Inventors: Mazor, Yitzhak
• Application Number:
  US12/995,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20110082765A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing

Abstract

A method for item collection in a shop in participation of a shopper and in support of computerized platforms. The method includes providing first and second shopping lists, supporting item collection by the shopper in accordance with the lists. The method may include providing an user interface to an item database and storage for shopping lists, facilitating division of a single shopping list into first and second shopping lists, comparing a shopping list with available items, and storing past shopping list. The shop may propose the.shopper buy an available item, encourage sale of the available item in replacement of an unavailable item, remind items based on past shopping lists and support a promotion campaign for the item. The shop may compose a suggestive shopping list, provide the shopping list on a hard copy or mobile device, and may provide the shopper data associated with item locations.

Claims

1. A method for item collection in a shop in participation of a shopper and in support of one or more computerized platforms, the method comprising:

(a) providing a first shopping list and a second shopping list;

(b) supporting item collection by said shopper in accordance with said first shopping list, said supporting being facilitated by said one or more computerized platforms; and

(c) collecting items in accordance with said second shopping list.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes providing an user interface to an item database and to a storage for shopping lists, whereby the storage may contain past and planned shopping lists of said shopper.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes facilitating division of a single shopping list into said first shopping list and said second shopping list.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes comparing a shopping list with a list of available items.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said method further includes the step of storing a list of bought items in a storage for shopping lists as a past shopping list.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes proposing said shopper to buy an available item, thereby encouraging sale of said available item in replacement of an unavailable item included in a shopping list, or reminding items based on past shopping lists or supporting a promotion campaign for items.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes providing at least one storage medium for storing a shopping list, said shopping list being retrieved from said one or more computerized platforms, whereby the shopper may thus get said shopping list on an accessible medium for use while collecting items in said shop.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes composing a suggestive shopping list in accordance with one or more past shopping lists.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes providing said shopper one or more data pieces associated with location of one or more items.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes proposing said shopper to buy an available item in response to an item inquiry made by said shopper.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes adding unavailable items to a stock in accordance with an expected visit time, planned shopping lists and past shopping list associated with a future visit of said shopper.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein said supporting and said collecting are temporally overlapping.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes designing said collecting items in accordance with said second shopping list to be substantially over once the item collection in accordance with said first shopping list is over, thereby once said shopper arrives a cashier, the items collected for the shopper are available for payment.

14. A program storage device readable by a computerized apparatus, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computerized apparatus to facilitate execution of the method of claim 1.

15. A shopping assisting module for item collection in a shop in participation of a shopper, the module being associated with an item database, with a storage for shopping lists and with an user interface, the module adapted for:

(i) interacting with a shopper using said user interface to provide a first shopping list and a second shopping list;

(ii) supporting item collection by said shopper in accordance with said first shopping list; and

(iii) outputting said second shopping list for use by an item collector.

16. The module of claim 15 wherein the module is further adapted to communicate with a mobile device in support of item collection by said shopper.

17. The module of claim 16 wherein said mobile device is selected from a group consisting of cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, laptop computers, mobile media players and mobile device dedicated to assisting shoppers.

18. The module of claim 16 wherein said mobile device is adapted to managing a shopping list.

19. A mobile device for assisting a shopper in item collection in a shop in support of a computerized platform, the item collection by said shopper being made in temporal overlapping with item collection for said shopper by a shop associate, the mobile device adapted for interacting with said computerized platform regarding at least:

(a) one or more shopping lists;

(b) one or more item location;

(c) item selection by said shop associate; and

(d) suggestion of available item in replacement of an unavailable item.

20. The mobile device of claim 19 wherein the mobile device is interacting with said computerized platform using a local area network.