AUTOMATED IN STORE SHOPPING SYSTEM

• US 20160364786A1
• Filed: 12/01/2015
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Wankhede, Vinod Kumar L.
• Application Number:
  US14/955,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20160364786A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0639 Item locations
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0036 Checkout procedures
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/14 Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit data transmission in general H04L; telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station H04Q9/00

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for automated grocery shopping. The method includes generating a route to grocery items within a store and directing a robotic cart to collect the grocery items according to the generated route. A list of grocery items to be collected is received from a user located at a remote location. A purchase items list is generated comprising the collected grocery items. As each grocery item on the list of grocery items is collected, it is added to the purchase items list. The method may also include remote payment by a user for the grocery items listed on the purchase items list.

Claims

1. A method for automated grocery shopping, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, by one or more computer processors, a list of grocery items at a store, wherein the list of grocery items includes one or more grocery items;

determining, by one or more computer processors, whether each grocery item of the list of grocery items is present at the store;

responsive to determining that a grocery item of the list of grocery items is not present at the store, notifying, by one or more computer processors, a device of a remote user that the grocery item does not exist at the store and modifying the list of grocery items, by removing the grocery item from the list of grocery items;

generating, by one or more computer processors, a route to each grocery item of the list of grocery items at the store in a sequential order;

notifying, by one or more computer processors, the device of the remote user of an estimated shopping time to collect the list of grocery items;

directing, by one or more computer processors, a cart to follow the generated route and to retrieve the modified list of grocery items;

requesting, by one or more computer processors, payment for the retrieved grocery items;

receiving, by one or more computer processors, an indication of payment; and

responsive to receiving an indication of payment, delivering, by one or more processors, the retrieved grocery items to the remote user.