Conveyance of virtual properties with transfer of physical goods
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorTina Ram Orooji
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Abstract
A physical item with an affixed identification tag may be distributed to a user of a mobile computing device with an included reader device capable of reading an identifier stored on the identification tag. An association between the physical item and the identifier may be stored. When the mobile computing device is brought into proximity with the tagged physical item, a further association between user and identifier may be stored. The user's mobile computing device may be caused to display a digital application store user interface customized based on associations between the identifier, the physical item, and the user.
Claims20
A system for linking a physical item to a digital goods store, the system comprising:
- one or more computing nodes;
- a mechanism that, when activated, causes an identification tag to be affixed to the physical item, the identification tag having stored thereon an identifier;
- and
- one or more memories having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that, upon execution by the one or more computing nodes, cause the system at least to:
- store a first association between the identifier and the physical item;
- receive a first data indicative of the identifier having been read by a first reader device embedded in a first mobile computing device of a first user, the data comprising the identifier and information indicative of the first user;
- store information indicative of interaction by the first user with at least one of the digital goods store, an application obtained from the digital goods store, or a media file obtained from the digital goods store;
- receive a second data indicative of the identifier having been read by a second reader device embedded in a second mobile computing device of a second user, the second data comprising the identifier and the information indicative of the second user;
- and
- customize interaction of the second user with at least one of the digital goods store, an application obtained from the digital goods store, or a media file obtained from the digital goods store, wherein the interaction of the second user is customized based at least in part on the information indicative of interaction by the first user.
A method of improving functioning of a digital goods store by linking a physical item to the digital goods store, the method comprising:
- storing a first association between an identifier and the physical item, the identifier stored on an identification tag affixed to the physical item;
- receiving a first data comprising the identifier and information indicative of a first user of a first mobile computing device, the identifier read from the identification tag;
- storing information indicative of interaction by the first user with at least one of the digital goods store, an application obtained from the digital goods store, or a media file obtained from the digital goods store;
- receiving a second data comprising the identifier and the information indicative of a second user of a second mobile computing device, the identifier read from the identification tag;
- and
- customizing interaction of the second user with at least one of the digital goods store, an application obtained from the digital goods store, or a media file obtained from the digital goods store, wherein the interaction of the second user is customized based at least in part on the information indicative of interaction by the first user.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, upon execution by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices at least to:
- store a first association between an identifier and a physical item, the identifier stored on an identification tag affixed to the physical item;
- receive a first data comprising the identifier and information indicative of a first user of a first mobile computing device, the identifier read from the identification tag;
- store information indicative of interaction by the first user with at least one of a digital goods store, an application obtained from the digital goods store, or a media file obtained from the digital goods store;
- receive a second data comprising the identifier and the information indicative of a second user of a second mobile computing device, the identifier read from the identification tag;
- and
- customize interaction of the second user with at least one of the digital goods store, an application obtained from the digital goods store, or a media file obtained from the digital goods store, wherein the interaction of the second user is customized based at least in part on the information indicative of interaction by the first user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.