SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A MOBILE DEVICE TO LOCATE A FOLLOWED ITEM IN A RETAIL STORE

• US 20110191207A1
• Filed: 04/14/2011
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Transform Sr Brands, LLC (ESL Investments, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sears Brands LLC (Sears Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Johnson, John, Agarwal, Shubham, Schueller, Dana L., Grimm, Dan S., Brillhart, Marisa Lynne
• Granted Patent: US 8,590,786 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0639 Item locations

Abstract

A computing device receives information that is representative of a location of a mobile device and uses the information representative of the location of the mobile device to select one or more maps corresponding to a retail establishment. The computing device also receives information that is representative of a customer and uses the information representative of the customer to place on the one or more selected maps indicia indicative of one or more locations within the retail establishment at which one or more items determined to be of interest to the customer are located. The one or more selected maps with the indicia are then provided to the mobile device for display.

Claims

6-1. The computer-readable media as recited in claim 1, wherein the information that is representative of the location of the mobile device is manually entered into the mobile device by the customer.