Systems and methods for facilitating purchase using gesture

• US 10,445,820 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2014
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Verde, Bret Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Danneman, Paul
• Application Number:
  US14/315,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20150379619A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,938 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

A gesture profile may be set up for making a purchase. The gesture profile may define a gesture that triggers a purchase transaction. When the gesture is detected, a purchase target may be searched and identified. The purchase target may be purchased automatically using a payment method defined in the gesture profile. When multiple purchase targets are identified, a user selection may be received to select one or more purchase targets. The selected purchase targets may be purchased using the payment method defined in the gesture profile. Accordingly, a user may purchase a product or service by making a simple gesture on a mobile device.

Claims

1. A system for facilitating purchases using gestures, the system comprising:

a non-transitory memory having stored thereon information related to a plurality of funding sources associated with a user and a gesture profile, the gesture profile defining a plurality of gestures, wherein each gesture defined in the gesture profile is associated with a purchase of a corresponding type of goods or services using a corresponding funding source associated with the user; and

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

receiving gesture information corresponding to a gesture input detected on a touchscreen of a user device;

determining a portion of the touchscreen corresponding to the gesture input based on the received gesture information;

determining the gesture input matches a particular gesture from the plurality of gestures defined in the gesture profile;

determining a particular type of goods or services corresponding to the particular gesture;

causing a camera of the user device to capture an image, wherein the image is displayed on the touchscreen of the user device;

identifying a portion of the image corresponding to the portion of the touchscreen;

automatically identifying a plurality of products from the portion of the image;

selecting, from the plurality of products, a particular product based on the particular type of goods or services corresponding to the particular gesture; and

processing a purchase transaction for the particular product.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to selecting the particular product, determining a merchant who sells the particular product, wherein the purchase transaction is associated with a purchase of the particular product from the merchant.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the particular type of goods or services comprises music, wherein the operations further comprise:

activating a microphone of the user device;

receiving an audio recording via the microphone;

accessing a song database; and

identifying a song from the song database based on the received audio recording.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein automatically identifying the plurality of the products comprises:

extracting a code from the portion of the captured image;

accessing a product database; and

identifying the plurality of products by searching the product database based on the extracted code.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

presenting information related to the particular product on the user device; and

receiving a user input confirming a purchase of the particular product.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the gesture input comprises a symbol.

7. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computer system, gesture information corresponding to a gesture input detected on a touchscreen of a user device;

determining, by the computer system, a portion of the touchscreen corresponding to the gesture input based on the received gesture information;

determining, by the computer system, whether the gesture information matches a particular gesture from a plurality of gestures defined in a gesture profile associated with a user, wherein the gesture profile includes the plurality of gestures, wherein each gesture in the gesture profile is associated with a purchase of a corresponding type of goods or services;

in response to determining that the gesture information matches the particular gesture, determining, by the computer system, a particular type of goods or services corresponding to the particular gesture;

causing, by the computer system, a camera of the user device to capture an image, wherein the captured image is displayed on the touchscreen of the user device;

identifying, by the computer system, a portion of the image corresponding to the portion of the touchscreen;

automatically identifying, by the computer system, a plurality of products from the portion of the image;

selecting, by the computer system from the plurality of products, a particular product based on the particular type of goods or services corresponding to the particular gesture; and

causing, by the computer system, a purchase transaction for the particular product to be processed.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

in response to selecting the particular product, determining a merchant who sells the particular product; and

acquiring purchasing information about the particular product from a network site corresponding to the merchant.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising presenting the acquired purchasing information on the touchscreen of the user device.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the particular type of goods or services comprises music, and wherein the method further comprises:

activating a microphone of the user device;

receiving audio data via the microphone; and

identifying a song based on the received audio data.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the computer system comprises the user device.

12. The method of claim 7, further comprising

presenting a list of the plurality of particular products on the touchscreen of the user device;

and

receiving a user input confirming the particular product to be purchased from the list.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein causing the purchase transaction to be processed comprises transmitting a purchase request to a payment processor corresponding to a funding source associated with the user.

14. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

receiving, by the computer system, a request for setting up the gesture profile;

sending a gesture profile form to the user;

receiving the gesture profile from the user via the gesture profile form, the gesture profile defining the plurality of gestures; and

associating the particular gesture with the particular type of goods and services based on the gesture profile.

15. The method of claim 7, wherein the plurality of products are identified further based on the gesture input.

16. The method of claim 7, wherein the particular product is selected from the plurality of products further based on a location of the user device.

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

receiving gesture data corresponding to a gesture input detected on a touchscreen of a user device associated with a user;

determining a portion of the touchscreen corresponding to the gesture input based on the received gesture data;

determining that the gesture data matches a particular gesture from a plurality of gestures defined in a gesture profile associated with the user, wherein the gesture profile includes the plurality of gestures, wherein each gesture in the gesture profile is associated with a purchase of a corresponding type of goods and services;

determining a particular type of goods or services corresponding to the particular gesture based on the gesture profile;

capturing an image to be displayed on the user device;

identifying a portion of the image corresponding to the portion of the touchscreen;

automatically identifying a plurality of products from the portion of the image;

selecting, from the plurality of products, a particular product based on the particular type of goods or services corresponding to the particular gesture; and

causing the particular product to be purchased using a funding source associated with the user.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein determining that the gesture data matches the particular gesture comprises determining that a detectable parameter of the gesture input falls within a data range for the detectable parameter associated with the particular gesture that is defined in the gesture profile.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein causing the specific product to be purchased comprises determining that the funding source associated with the user is linked to the user device.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the particular product is selected further based on tactile data received from a sensory input device.