Using grocery store point-of-sale data to correlate consumer purchase habits to nutrition targets

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016133140-A1
Application number	US-201414539858-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 12, 2014
Priority date	Nov 12, 2014
Publication date	May 12, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product for wellness program management. Embodiments commence upon identifying a person as a wellness program participant and associating the person with a repository of grocer POS data using a personal identifier that is used to access the grocer POS data that comprises at least some food items purchased in a particular shopping trip. A set of consumer purchase records are retrieved from the POS data, then at least one aspect of a wellness profile pertaining to the wellness program participant is retrieved from wellness program data. The consumer purchase records can be analyzed to determine a nutrition value that is associated with at least one aspect of the wellness program participant's wellness profile. An alert is sent to the wellness program participant when certain events occur or when wellness profile thresholds are met.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system comprising:
a database comprising a set of storage devices to hold a set of data records, wherein the data records comprise POS data having at least some items purchased relative to a personal identifier; a rules engine to ingest a set of one or more rules and to process the rules over the data records;
a rule base comprising a set of one or more processing rules for analysis of the POS data;
a database engine to access, from the POS data, a set of purchase records that pertain to the personal identifier, wherein accessing the POS data comprises use of at least one of, a personal identifier, and a credential; and
an application server to execute the rules using the database engine to retrieve at least one aspect of a profile pertaining to personal identifier; and to analyze at least a portion of the set of purchase records to determine a nutrition value.

2 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising a nutrition lookup module to perform a nutrition lookup from a nutrition database.

3 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising storing the nutrition value in a database within a wellness program system.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the personal identifier is derived from at least one of, a loyalty card, an electronic serial number, and an app.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the aspect comprises at least one of, a meal, a shopping trip, a wellness target, and a nutrition target.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the aspect comprises levelized data from one or more shopping trips.

7 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising a communication channel to transmit a nutrition suggestion based at least in part on the set of purchase records.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the nutrition suggestion comprises a nutrition alert.

9 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the nutrition suggestion comprises a remediation recommendation based at least in part on the set of purchase records.

10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the POS data comprises at least one of, a date, an item identifier, and a quantity measurement.

11 . A method comprising:
retrieving from a database comprising a set of storage devices to hold a set of data records, wherein the data records comprise POS data having at least some items purchased relative to a personal identifier; invoking a rules engine to ingest a set of one or more rules and to process the rules over the data records, the rules engine to access a rule base comprising a set of one or more processing rules for analysis of the POS data; accessing, from the POS data, a set of purchase records that pertain to the personal identifier, wherein accessing the POS data comprises use of at least one of, a personal identifier, and a credential; and executing the rules using the database engine to retrieve at least one aspect of a profile pertaining to personal identifier; and analyzing at least a portion of the set of purchase records to determine a nutrition value.

12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising performing a nutrition lookup from a nutrition database.

13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the personal identifier is derived from at least one of, a loyalty card, an electronic serial number, and an app.

14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the aspect pertaining to the personal identifier comprises at least one of, a meal, a shopping trip, a wellness target, and a nutrition target.

15 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the aspect pertaining to the personal identifier comprises levelized data from one or more shopping trips.

16 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising transmitting a nutrition suggestion based at least in part on the set of purchase records.

17 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising storing the nutrition value.

18 . A computer program product, embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor causes the processor to execute a process, the process comprising:
retrieving from a database comprising a set of storage devices to hold a set of data records, wherein the data records comprise POS data having at least some items purchased relative to a personal identifier; invoking a rules engine to ingest a set of one or more rules and to process the rules over the data records, the rules engine to access a rule base comprising a set of one or more processing rules for analysis of the POS data; accessing, from the POS data, a set of purchase records that pertain to the personal identifier, wherein accessing the POS data comprises use of at least one of, a personal identifier, and a credential; and executing the rules using the database engine to retrieve at least one aspect of a profile pertaining to personal identifier; and analyzing at least a portion of the set of purchase records to determine a nutrition value.

19 . The computer program product of claim 18 , further comprising performing a nutrition lookup from a nutrition database.

20 . The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein the personal identifier is derived from at least one of, a loyalty card, an electronic serial number, and an app.

Assignees

• Oracle Int Corp

Inventors

• King Nigel
• Bax Thijs Jonathan

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