System and method for associating item lists with geographical locations

• US 9,727,907 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2013
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WW Grainger Incorporated
• Original Assignee: WW Grainger Incorporated
• Inventors: Cooney, Michael, Grimm, Daniel S., Gillespie, William, Moustafa, Ismael
• Primary Examiner(s): Dunham, Jason
• Assistant Examiner(s): BARGEON, BRITTANY E
• Application Number:
  US13/796,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20140279210A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,610 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0639 Item locations

Abstract

A current geographic location of a mobile device, such as a smart phone, tablet computer, or the like, is used to retrieve one or more lists of product related items, such as information related to product that has been delivered/shipped to one or more locations in the vicinity of the current geographic location of the mobile device. The lists of product related items provide details about the product related items and a user interface element for allowing, among other things, items to be ordered, e.g., for delivery/shipment to a corresponding geographic location.

Claims

1. A method for using a mobile device to provide access to at least one list of product related items, comprising:

receiving by a mobile device a signal from a location signaling device;

providing at least the signal received from the location signaling device to a location sensing device of the mobile device whereby the location sensing device of the mobile device uses the at least the signal received from the location signaling device to determine a current location of the mobile device;

receiving from the mobile device at a server device a communication containing a current location data wherein the current location data is indicative of the current location of the mobile device as determined by the location sensing device of the mobile device;

selecting by the server device from within an associated data store in which was previously stored a plurality of list of products that were each cross-referenced to a one of a plurality of location data a one of the plurality of lists of products that was cross-referenced to a one of the plurality location data that generally corresponds to the data indicative of the current location of the mobile device;

providing from the server device to the mobile device the selected one of the plurality of lists of products; and

causing the mobile device to display in a user interface presented in a display of the mobile device the selected one of the plurality of lists of products;

wherein the user interface comprises a user interface element for initiating from the mobile device an ordering of at least one product from the selected one of the plurality of lists of products;

wherein each one of the plurality of list of products and each corresponding one of the plurality of location data previously stored within the data store was received by the server device from the mobile device while the mobile device was at a location corresponding to the corresponding one of the plurality of location data; and

wherein each of the plurality of location data previously stored in the data store was determined by a location sensing device of the mobile device via use of at least a signal received from a location signaling device.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step of receiving by the mobile device the signal from the location signaling device comprises receiving by the mobile device a positioning signal generated by a global positioning satellite.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the step of receiving by the mobile device the signal from the location signaling device comprises receiving by the mobile device a positioning signal generated by a beacon device.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the location sensing device of the mobile device additionally uses a signal generated by an accelerometer of the mobile device when determining the current location of the mobile device and wherein the plurality of location data stored in the data store were also determined by the location sensing device of the mobile device via additional use of at least a signal generated by an accelerometer of the mobile device.