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Systems and Methods for Displaying the Location of a Product in a Retail Location

  • US 20150170258A1
  • Filed: 02/26/2015
  • Published: 06/18/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for displaying a location visualization to a user comprising:

  • providing a server communicatively coupled to a non-transitory computer-readable server memory and being communicably coupled to a data network;

    providing a user device having a user device memory and being communicably coupled to said data network;

    receiving retailer data for a retail location, said retailer data comprising product data for a plurality of products offered for sale at said retail location;

    receiving planogram data for a retail location, said planogram data comprising;

    fixture location data indicative of the relative positions and dimensions of a plurality of fixtures in said retail location;

    for each fixture in said plurality of fixtures, an indication of at least one product stocked on said fixture, said at least one product being a product in said plurality of products in said retailer data;

    for each fixture in said plurality of fixtures, calculating a map point in said retail location, said calculated map point being determined least in part based upon said relative position of said fixture in said retail location;

    for each product in said at least one product stocked on each fixture in said plurality of fixtures, storing in a said non-transitory computer-readable server memory a database record comprising search criteria for said each product and a unique identifier for said calculated map point corresponding to said each fixture;

    generating a map image portraying the position of said at least one fixture in said retail location based at least in part on said fixture location data;

    for each calculated map point, calculating a pixel location on said map image, said calculated pixel location being a location on said map image corresponding to the location of said each calculated map point in said retail store;

    said user device receiving over said network said map image and translation data, said translation data comprising, for each calculated map point, said unique identifier and said calculated pixel location on said map image corresponding to said each calculated map point;

    said server receiving from said user device over said network user search criteria;

    said server identifying database record(s) having search criteria matching said user search criteria;

    for each identified database record, said server sending to said user device over said network said unique identifier in said each identified database record;

    for each unique identifier received by said user device, said user device using said received translation data to translate said received unique identifier to said calculated pixel location for said map point;

    said user device displaying said map image; and

    said user device displaying on said displayed map image, for each translated pixel location, a location visualization at said pixel location.

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