Computer order handling system providing transferrable order delivery through networked electronic kiosks

• US 20110238296A1
• Filed: 04/29/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bryce Benjamin Purks, Connor Kent Purks, David Kent Purks, Deborah Rhea Purks, Kory Patrick Purks
• Original Assignee: Bryce Benjamin Purks, Connor Kent Purks, David Kent Purks, Deborah Rhea Purks, Kory Patrick Purks
• Inventors: Purks, Deborah Rhea, Purks, David Kent, Purks, Kory Patrick, Purks, Connor Kent, Purks, Bryce Benjamin
• Application Number:
  US13/066,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20110238296A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0639 Item locations

Abstract

An order handling system includes a network interface and an order handling module. The network interface communicates through a wide area network with a plurality of kiosks. The order handling module is configured to receive, via the network interface, an order from a user for a first item that is within the inventory of a first kiosk. The order handling module is further configured to reserve the first item for pick-up by the user at the first kiosk in response to the order. After the first item is reserved for pick-up, the order handling module receives from a second kiosk an order inquiry from the user, where the second kiosk is geographically spaced apart from the first kiosk. The order handling module is configured to determine that the user is located at the second kiosk instead of at the first kiosk where the first item is reserved, and, responsive that determination, to carry out through the second kiosk operations that display to the user the relative geographic locations of the first and second kiosks and/or a third kiosk that contains the first item, and/or operations that transfer the order for completion at the second kiosk or another kiosk that is selected by user through the second kiosk.

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