Method, medium, and system for location based gift identification
First Claim
1. A system for notifying a user of the user'"'"'s proximity to a merchant selling a particular gift item, the system comprising:
- a mobile device connected to a network;
a computing device connected to the network;
a member database comprising members and at least one list of gift items associated with each member;
a merchant database comprising merchant locations and inventories;
location identification software executing on the mobile device that identifies the current location of the mobile device;
notification software executing on the computing device that generates one or more alerts and sends the one or more alerts to the mobile device;
wherein the mobile device continually relays its current location over the network to the computing device;
wherein the computing device compares the mobile device'"'"'s location with the merchant locations in the merchant database and determines whether the mobile device is within a threshold proximity of any of the merchant locations;
wherein the computing device compares the merchant inventories in the merchant database with the gift items associated with the members in the member database and determines whether any of the merchants within the threshold proximity of the mobile device sells any of the gift items;
wherein the computing device generates an alert when a merchant selling one or more gift items is within the threshold proximity of the mobile device, the alert comprising information about the merchant and the one or more gift items available for sale, the information including at least the merchant'"'"'s name and the merchant'"'"'s current geographical distance from the mobile device; and
wherein the computing device sends the alert over the network to the mobile device.
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Abstract
A system using a mobile device and computing device connected to a network, a member database containing information on the members of the system and the gift items each has identified in one or more gift lists, and a merchant database containing information on merchant geolocations and inventories. The mobile device uses geolocation identification software utilizing GPS technology to pinpoint the mobile device'"'"'s geolocation. The computing device compares the mobile device'"'"'s geolocation to the merchant geolocations and compares the merchant inventories with the gift items. If a merchant located within a threshold proximity of the mobile device has a gift item in its inventory, the computing device sends an alert over the network to the mobile device indicating the geolocation of the merchant and gift item offered for sale.
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30 Claims
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1. A system for notifying a user of the user'"'"'s proximity to a merchant selling a particular gift item, the system comprising:
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a mobile device connected to a network; a computing device connected to the network; a member database comprising members and at least one list of gift items associated with each member; a merchant database comprising merchant locations and inventories; location identification software executing on the mobile device that identifies the current location of the mobile device; notification software executing on the computing device that generates one or more alerts and sends the one or more alerts to the mobile device; wherein the mobile device continually relays its current location over the network to the computing device; wherein the computing device compares the mobile device'"'"'s location with the merchant locations in the merchant database and determines whether the mobile device is within a threshold proximity of any of the merchant locations; wherein the computing device compares the merchant inventories in the merchant database with the gift items associated with the members in the member database and determines whether any of the merchants within the threshold proximity of the mobile device sells any of the gift items; wherein the computing device generates an alert when a merchant selling one or more gift items is within the threshold proximity of the mobile device, the alert comprising information about the merchant and the one or more gift items available for sale, the information including at least the merchant'"'"'s name and the merchant'"'"'s current geographical distance from the mobile device; and wherein the computing device sends the alert over the network to the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for notifying a user of the user'"'"'s proximity to a merchant selling a particular gift item comprising the steps of:
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identifying the geolocation of a mobile device connected to a network; identifying one or more lists of gift items associated with one or more members; identifying the geolocations of one or more merchants; identifying the inventory of gift items sold by the one or more merchants; comparing the geolocation of the mobile device with the geolocations of the one or more merchants; determining whether the geolocation of the mobile device is within a threshold proximity of the geolocations of any of the merchants; comparing the inventory of gift items sold by the one or more merchants with the one or more lists of gift items; determining whether any of the merchants within the threshold proximity of the mobile device sells any of the gift items on any of the lists of gift items associated with the one or more members; generating an alert notification when a merchant selling one or more gift items is within the threshold proximity of the mobile device, the alert notification comprising information about the merchant and the one or more gift items available for sale, the information including at least the merchant'"'"'s name and the merchant'"'"'s current geographical distance from the mobile device; and sending the alert notification over the network to the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A system for notifying a user of the user'"'"'s proximity to a merchant selling a particular gift item, the system comprising:
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a mobile device connected to the internet; a computing device connected to the internet; a member database comprising one or more members and at least one list of gift items associated with each member; a merchant database comprising merchant locations and inventories; location identification software executing on the mobile device that identifies the current location of the mobile device using GPS technology; notification software executing on the computing device that generates one or more alerts and sends the one or more alerts to the mobile device; wherein the mobile device continually relays its current location over the internet to the computing device; wherein the computing device compares the mobile device'"'"'s location with the merchant locations in the merchant database and determines whether the mobile device is within a threshold proximity of any of the merchant locations; wherein the computing device compares the merchant inventories in the merchant database with the gift items associated with the members in the member database and determines whether any of the merchants within the threshold proximity of the mobile device sells any of the gift items; wherein the computing device generates an alert when; a merchant selling one or more gift items is within the threshold proximity of the mobile device; and at least one additional parameter is satisfied; wherein the alert comprises information about the merchant and the one or more gift items available for sale, the information including at least the merchant'"'"'s name and the merchant'"'"'s current geographical distance from the mobile device; and wherein the computing device sends the alert over the internet to the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25)
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26. A system for notifying a user of the user'"'"'s proximity to a merchant selling a particular gift item and other merchants'"'"' competing offers for sale, the system comprising:
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a mobile device connected to a network; a computing device connected to the network; a member database comprising members and at least one list of gift items associated with each member; a merchant database comprising merchant location, inventory, and price information; location identification software executing on the mobile device that identifies the current location of the mobile device; notification software executing on the computing device that generates one or more alerts and sends the one or more alerts to the mobile device; wherein the mobile device continually relays its current location over the network to the computing device; wherein the computing device compares the mobile device'"'"'s location with the merchant locations in the merchant database and determines whether the mobile device is within a threshold proximity of any of the merchant locations; wherein the computing device compares the merchant inventories in the merchant database with the gift items associated with the members in the member database and determines whether any of the merchants within the threshold proximity of the mobile device sells any of the gift items; wherein the computing device generates an alert when a merchant selling one or more gift items is within the threshold proximity of the mobile device; wherein the alert comprises information about the merchant, including at least the merchant'"'"'s name and the merchant'"'"'s current geographical distance from the mobile device information about the one or more gift items, and information about similar gift items sold by one or more other merchants; wherein the computing device sends the alert over the network to the mobile device; and wherein the user can purchase the one or more gift items over the network from the one or more other merchants. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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