GEOGRAPHICALLY-ORIENTED PROFILE-BASED OBJECT ASSISTANCE
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1. A method of automatically anticipating and responding to a customer'"'"'s needs given an indication of interest in a product, including:
- receiving an electronic record of a customer'"'"'s interest in a product;
assigning the product of interest to a product group;
building a digital record of the customer'"'"'s interest in the product and efforts to become informed about the product and the product group;
recognizing from the location of a portable device when the customer is approaching or located within a sales environment in which the product is for sale;
providing alerts to the customer indicating opportunities within the sales environment to learn more about at least the product;
identifying one or more exemplars of the product; and
utilizing a location trigger from the location of a portable device to recognize when the customer has an opportunity to interact with at least one of the product exemplars, responsively providing an alert to the customer indicating an opportunity to interact with the product exemplar.
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Abstract
The technology disclosed relates to connecting a user'"'"'s location via a location mediation server with indications of interest in products and product groups and in real time. An application executing on a user'"'"'s mobile computing device supplies a location. The location mediation server works with the application, using various allocations of effort, to match current locations to sales environments that set the product(s) of interest and, in some implementations, to product exemplars outside sales environments.
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1. A method of automatically anticipating and responding to a customer'"'"'s needs given an indication of interest in a product, including:
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receiving an electronic record of a customer'"'"'s interest in a product; assigning the product of interest to a product group; building a digital record of the customer'"'"'s interest in the product and efforts to become informed about the product and the product group; recognizing from the location of a portable device when the customer is approaching or located within a sales environment in which the product is for sale; providing alerts to the customer indicating opportunities within the sales environment to learn more about at least the product; identifying one or more exemplars of the product; and utilizing a location trigger from the location of a portable device to recognize when the customer has an opportunity to interact with at least one of the product exemplars, responsively providing an alert to the customer indicating an opportunity to interact with the product exemplar. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of automatically anticipating and responding to a customer'"'"'s needs given an indication of a purchase of a product, including:
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receiving an electronic record of a customer purchasing a product; identifying compatible products and building a digital record of the purchase and the compatible products; recognizing from the location of a portable device when the customer is located within a sales environment in which one or more of the compatible products are for sale; and providing alerts to the customer indicating opportunities within the sales environment to learn more about at least one of the compatible products. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of tracking a person'"'"'s engagement with a product over its sales cycle and the product lifecycle, including:
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tracking efforts to engage a person using targeting objects with unique IDs; linking the targeting objects to an identified person via a unique ID for the person; when the person affirms interest in a target product, merging and transforming a plurality of targeting objects into a prospect object; and when the person purchases the product, extending and transforming a target object that is a prospect object into a target object that is a purchase object that further includes a product instance identifier and purchase-related data. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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