PRODUCT DISPLAY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20160055561A1
• Filed: 08/25/2014
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Winverts, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Winverts, Inc.
• Inventors: KIM, SEUNG JIN
• Application Number:
  US14/468,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20160055561A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/04 Electronic labels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/12 Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players
• 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

Generally described, the present application relates to systems and methods for managing price and location information of products within a retail establishment. A product display management system can manage product information, such as a product price and product name, and product location information for products within the retail establishment. The product display management system includes a product display unit and a display unit tag. The product display management system can link products to the product display unit and provide the appropriate product information for display on the display unit. The product display management system can maintain the location information of each product display unit within the retail establishment. The product display management system can also manage access to network-based resources associated with a product.

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16. A computer-implemented method for managing products of a retail establishment comprising:

providing at least one data store accessible by a control server and storing data entries relating to electronic shelf labels placed at various locations within a retail establishment;

receiving a display identifier, the display identifier identifying an electronic shelf label (ESL), wherein in the at least one data store, the display identifier is linked to a location identifier for identifying a location of the ESL within the retail establishment;

receiving a product identifier, the product identifier identifying a product;

linking or causing to link, by a control server, the display identifier to the product identifier by overwriting in the at least one data store a previously stored product identifier that was previously linked to the display identifier, wherein by linking the display identifier to the product identifier, the product is linked to the location of the ESL within the retail establishment; and

transmitting or causing to transmit, by the control server, product information associated with the product identifier to the ESL device identified by the display identifier, wherein the product information overwrites previous product information stored in the ESL device and the ESL device is configured to display the product information on an electronic display.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the product identifier and the display identifier are wirelessly received from an employee terminal or the ESL device.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the display identifier is stored in a display unit tag provided along with the ESL, wherein the display unit tag and ESL are integrated as a single piece or provided as separate pieces.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the product display tag stores a URI that is linked to the display identifier in the at least one database, wherein the method further comprises linking the URI stored in the product display tag with another URI associated with a webpage of the product, wherein a network enabled device requesting the URI stored in the product display tag is directed to the URI associated with the page containing information relating to the product.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprising receiving an instruction to link the display identifier to the product identifier from a mobile terminal.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein linking the display identifier to the product identifier is caused by receipt of both the display identifier and the product identifier sent from a single device.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein linking the display identifier to the product identifier is caused by consecutive receipts of the display identifier and the product identifier within a predetermined period, in which no intervening receipt of another identifier from the single device between the two consecutive receipts.

23. A non-transitory physical computer storage comprising computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed in one or more processors, are configured to execute operations comprising:

receiving a display identifier, the display identifier identifying an electronic shelf label (ESL) device that is linked to a location identifier in at least one data store, the location identifier identifying a location of the ESL within a retail establishment receiving a product identifier, the product identifier identifying a product that is associated with product information in the at least one data store;

subsequent to receipt of the display identifier and product identifier, linking or causing to link the display identifier to the product identifier in the at least one data store, wherein by linking the display identifier to the product identifier, the product is linked to the location of the ESL within the retail establishment; and

subsequent to linking, transmitting or causing to transmit the product information associated with the product to the ESL device identified by the display identifier, wherein upon receipt of the product information the ESL device is configured to display at least part of the product information on an electronic display.