Synchronization of home shopping carts with advertisements
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1. A method, comprising:
- by a processor of a smart home appliance that comprises an inventory area within which inventory commodity items are stored and managed, and that performs automated appliance-specific inventory management of the inventory area of the smart home appliance using at least one integrated inventory sensor of the smart home appliance;
subscribing, using commodity data of the inventory commodity items sent according to a publish/subscribe mechanism, with an in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device within a home network to receive advertisements specific to at least one product category of the inventory commodity items managed within the inventory area of the smart home appliance and that are configured programmatically within the smart home appliance for replenishment according to a configured reordering threshold;
programmatically monitoring, using a communication interface that provides communication capabilities with the at least one integrated inventory sensor, consumption of the inventory commodity items in the at least one managed product category within the inventory area according to inventory measurements provided by the at least one integrated inventory sensor;
receiving, from the in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device within the home network responsive to subscribing, subscribed advertisement content specific to the at least one managed product category selectively distributed by the in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device according to the publish/subscribe mechanism;
recognizing a purchase opportunity of an advertised item in one of the at least one managed product category within the received subscribed advertisement content based upon the monitoring of the consumption of the inventory commodity items and the programmatically-configured reordering threshold;
determining purchase availability location information of a store from which to acquire the advertised item, where the purchase availability location information is specified using global positioning satellite (GPS) information of the store from which to acquire the advertised item;
determining whether to add the advertised item recognized as the purchase opportunity to a locally-stored appliance-specific spoke shopping cart based upon the determined purchase availability location information;
adding, responsive to an affirmative determination regarding the purchase availability location information, the advertised item recognized as the purchase opportunity to the locally-stored appliance-specific spoke shopping cart; and
determining travel routing details by which to travel during a shopping trip to a physical location address of the store from which to acquire the advertised item, where the travel routing details comprise GPS information along a travel route to the store from which to acquire the advertised item.
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Abstract
Advertisement content is received at a processor that manages inventory of a smart home appliance from an advertising distribution device within a home network. A determination is made to add an advertised item of the advertisement content to a spoke shopping cart based upon commodity data of the managed inventory of the smart home appliance. The advertised item is added to the spoke shopping cart.
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1. A method, comprising:
by a processor of a smart home appliance that comprises an inventory area within which inventory commodity items are stored and managed, and that performs automated appliance-specific inventory management of the inventory area of the smart home appliance using at least one integrated inventory sensor of the smart home appliance; subscribing, using commodity data of the inventory commodity items sent according to a publish/subscribe mechanism, with an in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device within a home network to receive advertisements specific to at least one product category of the inventory commodity items managed within the inventory area of the smart home appliance and that are configured programmatically within the smart home appliance for replenishment according to a configured reordering threshold; programmatically monitoring, using a communication interface that provides communication capabilities with the at least one integrated inventory sensor, consumption of the inventory commodity items in the at least one managed product category within the inventory area according to inventory measurements provided by the at least one integrated inventory sensor; receiving, from the in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device within the home network responsive to subscribing, subscribed advertisement content specific to the at least one managed product category selectively distributed by the in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device according to the publish/subscribe mechanism; recognizing a purchase opportunity of an advertised item in one of the at least one managed product category within the received subscribed advertisement content based upon the monitoring of the consumption of the inventory commodity items and the programmatically-configured reordering threshold; determining purchase availability location information of a store from which to acquire the advertised item, where the purchase availability location information is specified using global positioning satellite (GPS) information of the store from which to acquire the advertised item; determining whether to add the advertised item recognized as the purchase opportunity to a locally-stored appliance-specific spoke shopping cart based upon the determined purchase availability location information; adding, responsive to an affirmative determination regarding the purchase availability location information, the advertised item recognized as the purchase opportunity to the locally-stored appliance-specific spoke shopping cart; and determining travel routing details by which to travel during a shopping trip to a physical location address of the store from which to acquire the advertised item, where the travel routing details comprise GPS information along a travel route to the store from which to acquire the advertised item. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system, comprising:
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a memory; at least one integrated inventory sensor; an inventory area within which inventory commodity items are stored and managed; a communication interface that provides communication capabilities with the at least one integrated inventory sensor; and a processor of a smart home appliance, that performs automated appliance-specific inventory management of the inventory area of the smart home appliance using the at least one integrated inventory sensor of the smart home appliance, programmed to; subscribe, using commodity data of the inventory commodity items sent according to a publish/subscribe mechanism, with an in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device within a home network to receive advertisements specific to at least one product category of the inventory commodity items managed within the inventory area of the smart home appliance and that are configured programmatically within the smart home appliance for replenishment according to a configured reordering threshold; programmatically monitor, using the communication interface that provides the communication capabilities with the at least one integrated inventory sensor, consumption of the inventory commodity items in the at least one managed product category within the inventory area according to inventory measurements provided by the at least one integrated inventory sensor; receive, from the in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device within the home network responsive to subscribing, subscribed advertisement content specific to the at least one managed product category selectively distributed by the in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device according to the publish/subscribe mechanism; recognize a purchase opportunity of an advertised item in one of the at least one managed product category within the received subscribed advertisement content based upon the monitoring of the consumption of the inventory commodity items and the programmatically-configured reordering threshold; determine purchase availability location information of a store from which to acquire the advertised item, where the purchase availability location information is specified using global positioning satellite (GPS) information of the store from which to acquire the advertised item; determine whether to add the advertised item recognized as the purchase opportunity to a locally-stored appliance-specific spoke shopping cart based upon the determined purchase availability location information; add, responsive to an affirmative determination regarding the purchase availability location information, the advertised item recognized as the purchase opportunity to the locally-stored appliance-specific spoke shopping cart within the memory; and determine travel routing details by which to travel during a shopping trip to a physical location address of the store from which to acquire the advertised item, where the travel routing details comprise GPS information along a travel route to the store from which to acquire the advertised item. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium including computer readable program code, where the computer readable program code when executed on a computer of a smart home appliance, that comprises an inventory area within which inventory commodity items are stored and managed, and that performs automated appliance-specific inventory management of the inventory area of the smart home appliance using at least one integrated inventory sensor of the smart home appliance, causes the computer to:
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subscribe, using commodity data of the inventory commodity items sent according to a publish/subscribe mechanism, with an in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device within a home network to receive advertisements specific to at least one product category of the inventory commodity items managed within the inventory area of the smart home appliance and that are configured programmatically within the smart home appliance for replenishment according to a configured reordering threshold; programmatically monitor, using a communication interface that provides communication capabilities with the at least one integrated inventory sensor, consumption of the inventory commodity items in the at least one managed product category within the inventory area according to inventory measurements provided by the at least one integrated inventory sensor; receive, from the in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device within the home network responsive to subscribing, subscribed advertisement content specific to the at least one managed product category selectively distributed by the in-home publish/subscribe hub advertising distribution device according to the publish/subscribe mechanism; recognize a purchase opportunity of an advertised item in one of the at least one managed product category within the received subscribed advertisement content based upon the monitoring of the consumption of the inventory commodity items and the programmatically-configured reordering threshold; determine purchase availability location information of a store from which to acquire the advertised item, where the purchase availability location information is specified using global positioning satellite (GPS) information of the store from which to acquire the advertised item; determine whether to add the advertised item recognized as the purchase opportunity to a locally-stored appliance-specific spoke shopping cart based upon the determined purchase availability location information; add, responsive to an affirmative determination regarding the purchase availability location information, the advertised item recognized as the purchase opportunity to the locally-stored appliance-specific spoke shopping cart; and determine travel routing details by which to travel during a shopping trip to a physical location address of the store from which to acquire the advertised item, where the travel routing details comprise GPS information along a travel route to the store from which to acquire the advertised item. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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