Dynamic mobile seller routing

• US 10,242,376 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2015
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Akin, Jeremiah Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Koneru, Sujay
• Application Number:
  US14/845,773
• Publication Number:
  US 20150379539A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,299 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/13 Receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically routing a mobile sales operation are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving a request to provide a location recommendation to a mobile sales operation where the request comprises GPS coordinates from a GPS device associated with the mobile sales operation, determining the location recommendation based on analyzing data associated with a competitor of the mobile sales operation in view of the GPS coordinates, sending a first communication comprising the location recommendation to a computing device of the mobile sales operation, and sending a second communication comprising GPS coordinates of an updated location recommendation to the computing device of the mobile sales operation in view of a change in status for one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation.

Claims

1. A computer system for dynamically routing a mobile sales operation, comprising:

a computing device associated with the mobile sales operation;

a global positioning system (GPS) device in communication with the computing device to navigate the mobile sales operation;

a non-transitory memory; and

one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the computer system to perform operations comprising;

receiving a request to provide a location recommendation to the mobile sales operation, the request comprising a first set of GPS coordinates, reported by the GPS device, that correspond to a first location of the mobile sales operation;

determining the location recommendation, at least in part, based on analyzing data associated with one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation in view of the first set of GPS coordinates, the location recommendation comprising a second location to which the mobile sales operation is recommended to go;

sending a first communication comprising the location recommendation to the computing device associated with the mobile sales operation;

determining a change in a status for the one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation;

determining an updated location recommendation in response to the change in status, the updated location recommendation comprising a third location to which the mobile sales operation is recommended to go instead of the second location; and

sending a second communication comprising the updated location recommendation to the computing device associated with the mobile sales operation.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the analyzing the data associated with the one or more competitors further comprises:

determining GPS coordinates of the one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation, wherein the determining the location recommendation is based at least in part on the GPS coordinates of the one or more competitors.

3. The computer system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation is a different mobile seller.

4. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the location recommendation comprises a second set of GPS coordinates corresponding to the second location, and wherein the updated location recommendation comprises a third set of GPS coordinates corresponding to the third location.

5. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the one or more competitors comprise a plurality of competitors, and wherein the change in status involves changes in locations of at least two of the competitors of the mobile sales operation.

6. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the change in status involves a change of goods or services offered by the one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation.

7. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the change in status involves a change in a location of the one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation.

8. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the change in status involves a change in location for a second competitor of the mobile sales operation determining the location recommendation is further based on one or more criteria specified by the mobile sales operation.

9. The computer system of claim 8, wherein the one or more criteria comprise minimizing a drive time for the mobile sales operation to navigate to the second location.

10. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the change in status involves a change in sales for the one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation.

11. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the change in status involves a change in sales for a second competitor of the mobile sales operation, wherein the operations further comprise:

causing a route for navigating from the first location to the second location or to the third location to be displayed visually on the computing device.

12. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the updated location recommendation is provided to the mobile sales operation as part of a plurality of location recommendations.

13. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the location recommendation or the updated location recommendation further comprises an amount of time that the mobile sales operation is recommended to spend at the second location or at the third location.

14. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the updated location recommendation is provided to the mobile sales operation as part of a route comprising a plurality of location recommendations for the mobile sales operation.

15. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the updated location recommendation is provided to the mobile sales operation as part of a plurality of different routes available to the mobile sales operation.

16. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the updated location recommendation is provided to the mobile sales operation based on a movement of the one or more competitors.

17. A computer-implemented method for dynamically routing a mobile sales operation, comprising:

receiving, from a computing device associated with the mobile sales operation, a request to provide a location recommendation to the mobile sales operation, the request comprising a first set of GPS coordinates of the mobile sales operation from a GPS device associated with the mobile sales operation, the first set of GPS coordinates corresponding to a first location at which the mobile sales operation is currently present;

determining, by a computer system, the location recommendation, at least in part, based on data associated with a competitor of the mobile sales operation in view of the first set of GPS coordinates, the location recommendation comprising a second location to which the mobile sales operation is recommended to go;

sending, by the computer system, a first communication comprising the location recommendation to the computing device associated with the mobile sales operation;

detecting a change in a status of the competitor;

determining an updated location recommendation in response to the detected change in status, the updated location recommendation comprising a third location to which the mobile sales operation is recommended to go instead of the second location; and

sending, by the computer system, a second communication comprising the updated location recommendation to the computing device associated with the mobile sales operation.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, further comprising:

analyzing, by the computer system, analytic data comprising sales for the competitor of the mobile sales operation in view of the first set of GPS coordinates.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a computing device associated with a mobile sales operation, a request to provide a location recommendation to the mobile sales operation, the request comprising a first set of GPS coordinates of the mobile sales operation from a GPS device, the first set of GPS coordinates corresponding to a present location of the mobile sales operation;

determining, by a computer system, the location recommendation, at least in part, based on data associated with a competitor of the mobile sales operation in view of the first set of GPS coordinates, the location recommendation comprising a first target location for the mobile sales operation;

sending, by the computer system, a first communication comprising the location recommendation along with a second set of GPS coordinates to the computing device associated with the mobile sales operation, the second set of GPS coordinates corresponding to the first target location;

detecting, by the computer system, a change in status for one or more competitors of the mobile sales operation;

determining an updated location recommendation in response to the detected change in a status, the updated location recommendation comprising a second target location for the mobile sales operation different from the first target location; and

sending, by the computer system, a second communication comprising the updated location recommendation along with a third set of GPS coordinates to the computing device associated with the mobile sales operation, the third set of GPS coordinates corresponding to the second target location.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein the sending the first communication or the sending the second communication comprises sending navigation instructions to the first target location or sending navigation instructions to the second target location, respectively.