APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONDUCTING A TRANSACTION IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

• US 20160078400A1
• Filed: 11/20/2015
• Published: 03/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Frances Barbaro Altieri
• Original Assignee: Frances Barbaro Altieri
• Inventors: Altieri, Frances Barbaro
• Granted Patent: US 10,453,027 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/60 Control of cameras or camera modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for conducting a transaction—such as the purchase of goods and services—including the collection, conversion, storage, tagging and the integration of a live inventory system, mark-up, mark-down system, live auction, and bartering system in an interactive software application, virtual world, social network, commercial and/or game application, which provides a real world experience to the user.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. An inventory tracking system comprising:

an input device which captures at least one image and which transfers said image in an image file to an inventory storage device;

wherein said inventory storage device is one of internal to said input device or on a separate storage system;

a tracking mechanism attached to an article, said tracking mechanism which includes one of a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag or chip, a bar code, a metallic ink, a company thread, a company anti-counterfeiting dust, an ink, or a GPS system;

a scanning device which recognizes said tracking mechanism, said scanning device which one of sends a signal to said inventory storage device, or uploads information from said tracking mechanism along with said image to said input device; and

a virtual thematic environment displayed on a computer display, said virtual thematic environment which utilizes said inventory storage device to virtually display said image of said article and said information from said tracking mechanism.

8. The inventory tracking system of claim 7, wherein said article is one of a merchandising article or a medical article.

9. A training system comprising:

a virtual thematic environment displayed on a computer display, said virtual thematic environment which utilizes an inventory storage device to virtually display images of articles and information on said articles;

a tagging mechanism which tags each of said images with a removable ticket inventory identification, such that each of said images displays ticket inventory identification in said virtual thematic environment;

a training application which maintains educational, testing, and training information on merchandising, including videos, live applications, and a chat function, such that users may learn merchandising in said virtual thematic environment, by ticketing, arranging, and selling inventory tagged with said removable ticket inventory identification.