SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC WARDROBES

• US 20150302501A1
• Filed: 04/17/2014
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Doshi, Kalpesh Ashok
• Granted Patent: US 10,521,843 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A system or method is provided to implement electronic wardrobes for consumers. When a user makes a purchase, the system may determine whether the purchase includes wearable items, such as clothes or other wearable accessories. An electronic wardrobe may be created for the user to store the wearable items purchased by the user. The electronic wardrobe of the user may be broadcasted by the user'"'"'s mobile device to other nearby consumers via Near Field Communication (NFC), such as low energy Bluetooth (BLE) communication. For example, if the user is wearing a shirt and a nearby consumer wishes to find out more about the shirt, the consumer may discover the user'"'"'s electronic wardrobe via NFC to find information about the shirt, such as where the shirt was purchase, the make and model of the shirt, the price of the shirt, and the like.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a memory storing an electronic wardrobe of a user associated with a payment account of the user; and

one or more processors in communication with the memory and adapted to;

receive a payment request from the user for a purchase;

determine that the purchase includes a wearable item;

add the wearable item to the electronic wardrobe of the user; and

generate information related to the electronic wardrobe of the user to be broadcasted by a communication device of the user to other nearby devices via Near Field Communication (NFC).

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the NFC comprises low energy Bluetooth communication (BLE).

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the information related to the electronic wardrobe comprises a unique identification assigned to the electronic wardrobe of the user.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the information related to the electronic wardrobe comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) indicating a file location of the electronic wardrobe of the user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic wardrobe comprises a list of wearable items purchased or owned by the user.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the electronic wardrobe comprises product information for each of the list of wearable items.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the electronic wardrobe comprises privacy settings defining various viewing restrictions for the list of wearable items.

8. The system of claim 7,

wherein the electronic wardrobe of the user is associated with a social network account of the user, and

wherein the privacy settings of the user'"'"'s electronic wardrobe are determined based on privacy settings of the social network account of the user.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic wardrobe comprises broadcast settings defining time and location where the electronic wardrobe is broadcasted.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic wardrobe comprises broadcast settings for each wearable item defining when and where each wearable item is viewable by others.

11. A method comprising:

receiving, by a hardware processor of a payment provider server, a list of electronic wardrobes discovered at a communication device of a user via Near Field Communication (NFC);

receiving, by the processor, a particular electronic wardrobe selected by the user from the list of discovered electronic wardrobes; and

formatting, by the processor, information of the particular electronic wardrobe for display at the communication device of the user.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the list of discovered electronic wardrobes are displayed along with pictures of respective owners of the discovered electronic wardrobes.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the NFC comprises low energy Bluetooth (BLE) communication.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the list of electronic wardrobes comprises unique ID'"'"'s of the discovered electronic wardrobes.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the list of electronic wardrobes comprises Uniform Resource Locators (URL) of the discovered electronic wardrobes.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the information of the particular electronic wardrobe to be displayed to the user comprises a plurality of wearable items viewable by the user as defined by privacy settings of the particular electronic wardrobe.

17. The method of claim 16,

wherein the particular electronic wardrobe is associated with a social network account of an owner of the particular electronic wardrobe, and

wherein the privacy settings of the particular electronic wardrobe are determined based on privacy settings of the social network account of the owner.

18. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

receiving a request from the user for purchasing a wearable item presented in the particular electronic wardrobe;

processing a purchase transaction for purchasing the wearable item; and

providing an incentive to an owner of the particular electronic wardrobe in response to the purchase transaction.

19. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

analyzing viewing history of a plurality of electronic wardrobes; and

determining a popularity trend among various wearable items based on the viewing history.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, in response to execution by a computer system, cause the computer system to perform a method comprising:

discovering an electronic wardrobe broadcasted by a communication device via Near Field Communication (NFC);

requesting information of the electronic wardrobe from a payment provider server; and

displaying the information of the electronic wardrobe.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the method further comprising bookmarking the electronic wardrobe to receive information regarding future updates to the electronic wardrobe.