System and methods to present a personal shopping experience

• US 9,390,448 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2013
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Chien, Hsin-Yi, MacLaurin, Matthew Bret, Tahir, Marie Jeanette Floyd, Cypher, Healey, Hanegby, Ori, Zhang, Weidong, Oron, Dan A., Skorupski, James Ross, Wolfe, Jesse, Ravindra, Tejaswini
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosen, Nicholas D
• Application Number:
  US13/765,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20130311328A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,246 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26.9
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0639 Item locations

Abstract

A method and a system to present a personal shopping experience are provided. A plurality of items assigned to a category inputted by a user is identified. The plurality of items is available for sale at a plurality of corresponding locations within a pre-defined geographical area. A selection of at least one item of the plurality of items, the category, or a region within the pre-defined geographical area is received from a user. A path from a first location corresponding to a first item of the plurality of items to a second location corresponding to a second item of the plurality of items is determined. The path is within the pre-defined geographical area where the system is located. Discount information for the first item and discount information for the second item are identified. A path from the first location to the second location is displayed to the user. Discount information for the first item and the second item are provided to the user.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more processors and executable instructions accessible on a computer-readable medium that, when executed, configured the one or more processors to at least;

identify a plurality of items assigned to a category inputted by a user, the plurality of items available for sale at a plurality of corresponding locations within a pre-defined geographical area;

receive a selection of at least one item of the plurality of items, the category, or a region within the pre-defined geographical area from a user;

determine a path from a first location of a first brick-and-mortar store that includes a first item of the plurality of items to a second location of a second brick-and-mortar store that includes a second item of the plurality of items, the path being within the pre-defined geographical area where the system is located;

identify discount information for the first item and discount information for the second item;

display the path from the first location to the second location to the user; and

provide the discount information for the first item and the discount information for the second item to the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item selected by the user and the second location of the path corresponds to a second item selected by the user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item assigned to the category selected by the user and the second location of the path corresponds to a second item assigned to the category selected by the user.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item identified based in part on a user profile for the user including previous user shopping behavior.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the second location of the path corresponds to a second item identified based in part on a user profile for the user including previous user shopping behavior.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine the path based on the region received from the user.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to identify the plurality of items based in part on a user profile for the user including user shopping behavior.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to send a description of the path to a mobile device of the user.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to send the discount information for the first item to a retail location where the first item is sold.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to send the discount information for the second item to a retail location where the second item is sold.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the discount information for the first item and the discount information for the second item are sent to a mobile device of the user as images to be scanned at a retail location.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the discount information for the first item and the discount information for the second item are displayed to the user as promotional codes.

13. A method comprising:

identifying a plurality of items assigned to a category inputted by a user, the plurality of items available for sale at a plurality of corresponding locations within a pre-defined geographical area;

receiving a selection of at least one item of the plurality of items, the category, or a region within the pre-defined geographical area from a user;

determining, using one or more processors, a path from a first location of a first brick-and-mortar store that includes a first item of the plurality of items to a second location of a second brick-and-mortar store includes a second item of the plurality of items, the path being within the pre-defined geographical area;

identifying discount information for the first item and discount information for the second item; and

displaying the path from the first location to the second location to the user, and providing the discount information for the first item and the discount information for the second item to the user.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item selected by the user and the second location of the path corresponds to a second item selected by the user.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item assigned to the category selected by the user and the second location of the path corresponds to a second item assigned to the category selected by the user.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item identified based in part on a user profile for the user including previous user shopping behavior.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the second location of the path corresponds to a second item identified based in part on a user profile for the user including previous user shopping behavior.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein determining the path from the first location to the second location is based on the region received from the user.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein identifying the plurality of items is based in part on a user profile for the user including user shopping behavior.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

identifying a plurality of items assigned to a category inputted by a user, the plurality of items available for sale at a plurality of corresponding locations within a pre-defined geographical area;

receiving a selection of at least one item of the plurality of items, the category, or a region within the pre-defined geographical area from a user;

determining a path from a first location of a first brick-and-mortar store that includes a first item of the plurality of items to a second location of a second brick-and mortar store that includes a second item of the plurality of items, the path being within the pre-defined geographical area;

identifying discount information for the first item and discount information for the second item; and

displaying the path from the first location to the second location to the user, and providing the discount information for the first item and the discount information for the second item to the user.