Method and System for Facilitating On-Line Shopping
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1. A method comprising:
- presenting a collection of retail items, each having an indicia associated therewith, in a bricks and mortar store offering items for sale;
sensing the indicia associated with selected ones of said items;
compiling a list identifying the items whose indicia were sensed;
storing said list in a data structure associated with a user; and
later recalling said list;
using said recalled list to present a customized selection of items in an on-line shopping environment; and
receiving input from a user identifying a subset of items from said customized selection of items.
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Abstract
A shopper is presented with a customized online store whose inventory is defined by the shopper. In one embodiment, specification of the inventory is conducted in a bricks and mortar store—either during checkout, or by the shopper walking the aisles and scanning items with a barcode scanner pen or the like. The inventory may be defined—at least in part—by scanning items in the shopper'"'"'s home. A variety of other novel features useful in on-line shopping are also disclosed.
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1. A method comprising:
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presenting a collection of retail items, each having an indicia associated therewith, in a bricks and mortar store offering items for sale; sensing the indicia associated with selected ones of said items; compiling a list identifying the items whose indicia were sensed; storing said list in a data structure associated with a user; and later recalling said list; using said recalled list to present a customized selection of items in an on-line shopping environment; and receiving input from a user identifying a subset of items from said customized selection of items. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A method of conducting an online shopping session comprising:
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identifying a user by reference to a login identifier; recalling a list of products associated with the user; presenting products from said list to the user for selection; receiving user selections of products to be purchased; receiving an indication that the user is finished selecting products; and thereafter querying the user regarding possible purchase of an item not selected by the user but on said recalled list, before completing the online shopping session. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6)
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7. A method comprising:
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logging a shopper'"'"'s habits or preferences exhibited in an on-line shopping environment in one or more database records associated with that shopper; and recalling said logged database record in a bricks and mortar store and using the logged information in connection with bricks and mortar shopping by said user.
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8. In an on-line shopping method, an improvement comprising displaying a virtual shopping aisle with graphical—
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representations of items for sale, wherein items of potential interest to a shopper are presented more prominently than other items. - View Dependent Claims (9)
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10. A computer readable medium containing software instructions to program a processing system to direct the following operations:
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operate a portable camera-equipped device to capture 2D imagery from a machine readable indicia on a product; decode a product identifier from the captured imagery; store the product identifier in a memory; by reference to the stored product identifier, present price comparison data for the product offered by plural online vendors; and determine a vendor that offers the lowest net price, including an associated delivery charge. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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12. A method comprising:
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processing 2D image data captured by a camera-equipped device from an item in a bricks and mortar store, to thereby obtain an identifier associated with said item; storing said identifier; by reference to said stored identifier, determining respective prices of the first item offered by plural online vendors, and their respective associated delivery charges; and presenting to a user an indication of the lowest net price for said item from among said plural online vendors, said lowest net price including the associated delivery charge. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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15. A method comprising:
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storing data resulting from sensing of an RF ID from a particular physical product displayed by a first vendor; later transmitting order data to a second vendor different than the first, based on the stored data; wherein a physical product received as a consequence of said transmitted order data is of a same type as the physical product displayed by the first vendor, but it is not the particular physical product itself from which the RF ID was earlier sensed; and wherein the second vendor to whom the order data is transmitted is determined by a programmed computer system, based on an assessment of data relating to different vendors by said programmed computer system. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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