Completing A Purchase Transaction And Delivering Items

• US 20140214598A1
• Filed: 01/30/2013
• Published: 07/31/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC (WalMart Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores Texas LLC (WalMart Inc.)
• Inventors: Acker, Joel Bennett Jr., Pedley, Douglas James, Cancro, Richard Neil
• Application Number:
  US13/754,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20140214598A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3276 using a pictured code, e.g. barcode or QR-code, being read by the M-device
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0081 the reader being a portable scanner or data reader G07G1/009 takes precedence

Abstract

Embodiments for completing a purchase transaction without a customer having to move or touch an item within a retail store are disclosed. The embodiments include generating a shopping list of items the customer desires to purchase via scanning identifiers associated with the items, waypoints of the items, and a checkout waypoint to deliver the items.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, at a processing device, a shopping list, the shopping list including a retail item and an item waypoint associated with the retail item;

generating, at the processing device, data to be presented on a graphical user interface including a map of a retail store and an item identifier at the item waypoint; and

receiving, at the processing device, a checkout waypoint including coordinates associated with the retail store where the item is to be delivered.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the item waypoint can be any location within the retail store.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

adding the item to the shopping list in response to a mobile computing device scanning an identifier associated with the item.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 3, wherein the identifier is a bar code.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 3, further comprising:

transmitting the identifier to be presented on a display.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining, at the processing device, the item waypoint as coordinates of the mobile computing device in response to adding the item to the shopping list.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein an item identifier is configured to be superimposed on the map.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the shopping list is dynamically generated by a mobile computing device.

9. A server comprising:

an interface configured to receive a shopping list including a retail item, an item waypoint associated with the retail item, and a checkout waypoint including coordinates associated with the retail store where the item is to be delivered; and

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a processor configured to generate data to be presented on a graphical user interface including a map of the retail store, an item identifier at the item waypoint, and the checkout waypoint.

10. The server of claim 9, wherein the item waypoint can be any location within the retail store.

11. The server of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to add the item to the shopping list in response to a mobile computing device scanning an identifier associated with the item.

12. The server of claim 11, wherein the interface is configured to transmit the identifier to be presented on a display.

13. The server of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the item waypoint as coordinates of the mobile computing device in response to adding the item to the shopping list.

14. The server of claim 13, wherein the identifier is a bar code.

15. The server of claim 11, wherein the item identifier is configured to be superimposed on the map.

16. The server of claim 9, wherein the shopping list is dynamically generated by a mobile computing device.

17. A mobile device comprising:

an imaging device configured to receive an identifier associated with an item;

a waypoint module configured to determine coordinates of the mobile computing device, wherein the waypoint module determines the coordinates of the mobile computing device in response to receiving the identifier associated with the item and coordinates to deliver the item; and

a transmitter configured to transmit the identifier and the coordinates of the mobile computing device.

18. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein the waypoint can be any location within the retail store.

19. The mobile device of claim 17, further comprising:

a graphical user interface to add the item to a shopping list by scanning the identifier associated with the item.

20. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the shopping list is dynamically generated by the mobile device at a retail store.