System and methods to present a personal shopping experience

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9390448-B2
Application number	US-201313765558-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 12, 2013
Priority date	May 15, 2012
Publication date	Jul 12, 2016
Grant date	Jul 12, 2016

Abstract

A method and a system to present a personal shopping experience are provided. A plurality of items assigned to a category inputted by a user is identified. The plurality of items is available for sale at a plurality of corresponding locations within a pre-defined geographical area. A selection of at least one item of the plurality of items, the category, or a region within the pre-defined geographical area is received from a user. A path from a first location corresponding to a first item of the plurality of items to a second location corresponding to a second item of the plurality of items is determined. The path is within the pre-defined geographical area where the system is located. Discount information for the first item and discount information for the second item are identified. A path from the first location to the second location is displayed to the user. Discount information for the first item and the second item are provided to the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
one or more processors and executable instructions accessible on a computer-readable medium that, when executed, configured the one or more processors to at least:
identify a plurality of items assigned to a category inputted by a user, the plurality of items available for sale at a plurality of corresponding locations within a pre-defined geographical area;
receive a selection of at least one item of the plurality of items, the category, or a region within the pre-defined geographical area from a user;
determine a path from a first location of a first brick-and-mortar store that includes a first item of the plurality of items to a second location of a second brick-and-mortar store that includes a second item of the plurality of items, the path being within the pre-defined geographical area where the system is located;
identify discount information for the first item and discount information for the second item;
display the path from the first location to the second location to the user; and
provide the discount information for the first item and the discount information for the second item to the user.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item selected by the user and the second location of the path corresponds to a second item selected by the user.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item assigned to the category selected by the user and the second location of the path corresponds to a second item assigned to the category selected by the user.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item identified based in part on a user profile for the user including previous user shopping behavior.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second location of the path corresponds to a second item identified based in part on a user profile for the user including previous user shopping behavior.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine the path based on the region received from the user.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to identify the plurality of items based in part on a user profile for the user including user shopping behavior.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to send a description of the path to a mobile device of the user.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to send the discount information for the first item to a retail location where the first item is sold.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to send the discount information for the second item to a retail location where the second item is sold.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the discount information for the first item and the discount information for the second item are sent to a mobile device of the user as images to be scanned at a retail location.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the discount information for the first item and the discount information for the second item are displayed to the user as promotional codes.

13. A method comprising:
identifying a plurality of items assigned to a category inputted by a user, the plurality of items available for sale at a plurality of corresponding locations within a pre-defined geographical area;
receiving a selection of at least one item of the plurality of items, the category, or a region within the pre-defined geographical area from a user;
determining, using one or more processors, a path from a first location of a first brick-and-mortar store that includes a first item of the plurality of items to a second location of a second brick-and-mortar store includes a second item of the plurality of items, the path being within the pre-defined geographical area;
identifying discount information for the first item and discount information for the second item; and
displaying the path from the first location to the second location to the user, and providing the discount information for the first item and the discount information for the second item to the user.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item selected by the user and the second location of the path corresponds to a second item selected by the user.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item assigned to the category selected by the user and the second location of the path corresponds to a second item assigned to the category selected by the user.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the first location of the path corresponds to a first item identified based in part on a user profile for the user including previous user shopping behavior.

17. The method of claim 13 , wherein the second location of the path corresponds to a second item identified based in part on a user profile for the user including previous user shopping behavior.

18. The method of claim 13 , wherein determining the path from the first location to the second location is based on the region received from the user.

19. The method of claim 13 , wherein identifying the plurality of items is based in part on a user profile for the user including user shopping behavior.

20. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
identifying a plurality of items assigned to a category inputted by a user, the plurality of items available for sale at a plurality of corresponding locations within a pre-defined geographical area;
receiving a selection of at least one item of the plurality of items, the category, or a region within the pre-defined geographical area from a user;
determining a path from a first location of a first brick-and-mortar store that includes a first item of the plurality of items to a second location of a second brick-and mortar store that includes a second item of the plurality of items, the path being within the pre-defined geographical area;
identifying discount information for the first item and discount information for the second item; and
displaying the path from the first location to the second location to the user, and providing the discount information for the first item and the discount information for the second item to the user.

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Chien Hsin-Yi
• Maclaurin Matthew Bret
• Tahir Marie Jeanette Floyd
• Cypher Healey
• Hanegby Ori
• Zhang Weidong
• Oron Dan A
• Skorupski James Ross
• Wolfe Jesse
• Ravindra Tejaswini

Classifications

• G06Q30/0639 Primary

  Locating goods or services, e.g. based on physical position of the goods or services within a shopping facility · CPC title

• G06Q30/0207

  Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates · CPC title