AUTOMATIC LOCATION BASED DISCOVERY OF EXTENDED INVENTORY

• US 20150262117A1
• Filed: 06/30/2014
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Li, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 10,528,908 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions

Abstract

In various example embodiments, systems and methods for automatic location based discovery of variations of displayed items in a store are presented. In some embodiments, a beacon ID associated with a beacon device located at a store is received. In other embodiments, at least one product identifier associated with the beacon ID and representing one or more of store displayed items available for sale by the store is determined. In further embodiments, product variations of the one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store are identified associated with the at least one product identifier. In another embodiment, display information representing the product variations of the one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store is provided.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one processor of a machine;

a communication module to receive a beacon ID associated with a beacon devicelocated at a store;

a product identification module to determine, at least one product identifier associated with the beacon ID, each of the product identifiers representing a store displayed item available for sale by the store;

an inventory module to identify, based on the at least one product identifier, product variations of the store displayed items available for sale by the store; and

a display module to provide display information representing the product variations of the store displayed item available for sale by the store.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the product identification module is further to determine, at least one product identifier, by retrieving the at least one product identifier associated with the beacon ID from a mapping table.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the inventory module is further to determine inventory available for the product variations of the store displayed item available for sale by the store associated with each of the product identifiers.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the display module is further to provide the display information to the user device to present inventory available for the product variations of the store displayed item available for sale by the store associated with each of the product identifiers.

5. The system of claim 4, further comprising a recommendation module to determine items similar to the store displayed item available for sale by the store associated with each of the product identifiers.

6. A method comprising:

receiving a beacon ID associated with a beacon device, the beacon device located at a store;

determining, executing on at least one processor of a machine, at least one product identifier representing one or more of store displayed items available for sale by the store, the at least one product identifier associated with the beacon ID;

identifying product variations of the one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store associated with the at least one product identifier; and

providing display information representing the product variations of the one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein determining, using at the at least one processor of the machine, the at least one product identifier further comprising:

retrieving a single product identifier from a mapping table, the single product identifier mapped to the beacon ID.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein determining the product identifier further comprising:

retrieving multiple product identifiers from a mapping table, the multiple product identifiers mapped to the beacon ID.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein identifying, based on the at least one product identifier, product variations of the one or more store displayed items further comprising:

determining inventory available for the product variations of the one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein providing the display information representing the product variations of the one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store further comprising:

providing the display information to a user device to present the product variations of the one or more store displayed items having available for sale by the store.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein providing the display information to the user device to present the product variations of the one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store further comprising:

providing the display information to the user device to present the product variations of the store displayed items having inventory available at the store.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein providing the display information to the user device to present the product variations of the one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store further comprising:

providing the display information to the user device to present the product variations of the one or more store displayed items having inventory available at an online store associated with the store.

13. The method of claim 6, wherein receiving the beacon ID associated with the beacon device further comprising:

receiving the beacon ID associated with the beacon device located at the store in close proximity to the one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the close proximity represents a distance in which the beacon device may discover a user device using BLE protocols when the user device is located near the one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein receiving the beacon ID associated with the beacon device further comprising:

receiving the beacon ID from the beacon device.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein receiving the beacon ID associated with the beacon device further comprising:

receiving the beacon ID from the user device.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving a selection from the user device of the product variations of the one or more store displayed items presented; and

providing notification to a merchant system of the selected product variations.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving a selection from the user device of the product variations of the one or more store displayed items; and

providing a request to a merchant system to retrieve from store inventory the selected product variations.

19. The method of claim 6, wherein each of the at least one product identifier represents one store displayed item.

20. A machine readable medium not having any transitory signals and storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving at least one beacon ID, each beacon ID associated with a beacon device located at a store in close proximity to one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store;

determining, using at least one processor of a machine, at least one product identifier, the at least one product identifier corresponding to at least one of the beacon IDs; and

providing display information based on the determined at least one product identifier, the display information representing one or more store displayed items available for sale by the store near a user device used to present the display information.