In-store wireless shopping network using hand-held devices

• US 20100262554A1
• Filed: 04/13/2010
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo of America, Inc. (Nintendo Company Limited)
• Inventors: Elliott, Scott
• Granted Patent: US 8,412,590 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/323
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/20 Destination assistance within a business structure or complex
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

An example system includes a display, a communication circuit, a memory storing a shopping program, and a processor in communication with the display, the communication circuit and the memory. The processor is configured to execute the shopping program to access a product database including product information, to process inputs supplied to the system to generate a shopping list comprising one or more products from the product database and to provide guidance information on the display relating to product location in a store of the products on the shopping list.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a display;

a communication circuit;

a memory storing a shopping program; and

a processor in communication with the display, the communication circuit and the memory and configured to execute the shopping program to access a product database including product information, to process inputs supplied to the system to generate a shopping list comprising one or more products from the product database and to provide guidance information on the display relating to product location in a store of the products on the shopping list.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the guidance information comprises a map.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the map comprises a map displaying one or more store aisles and indicia indicative of products on the shopping list present in the aisles.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the display comprises first and second display screens.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system is embodied in a hand-held device.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system is embodied as a mobile telephone.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the inputs comprises touches on a touch screen.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the inputs comprise gestures on a touch screen.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the communication circuit comprises a wireless communication circuit.

10. A system comprising:

a display;

a memory storing a shopping list program; and

a processor in communication with the display and the memory and configured to execute the shopping program to receive inputs corresponding to meals for one or more persons and to process the received meal inputs to generate a shopping list for output on the display.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the meal inputs comprise one or more dietary restrictions.

12. The system according to claim 10, wherein the system is embodied in a hand-held device.

13. The system according to claim 10, wherein the system is embodied as a mobile telephone.

14. The system according to claim 10, wherein the inputs comprises touches on a touch screen.

15. The system according to claim 10, wherein the inputs comprise gestures on a touch screen.

16. A system comprising:

a display;

a memory storing a shopping program; and

a processor in communication with the display and the memory and configured execute the shopping program to access multiple product databases each including product information for products of a different store, to compare prices for products on a shopping list at different stores using price information in the product databases for those stores, and to generate a display showing total prices of the products on the shopping list at each of the stores.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the system is embodied in a hand-held device.

18. The system according to claim 16, wherein the system is embodied as a mobile telephone.

19. The system according to claim 16, wherein, if a product on the shopping list is not available at one or more of the different stores, the program is configured to substitute a comparable product available at the store for the unavailable product.

20. A system comprising:

a display;

a memory storing a shopping list program;

a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader; and

a processor in communication with the display, the memory and the RFID reader and configured to execute the shopping list program to transmit RFID interrogation signals using the RFID reader, to receive responses to the RFID interrogation signals and to process the responses to generate at least a partial shopping list for output on the display.