US 10,567,915 B2Granted

System and methods of searching for an object using hyper-local location techniques

AssigneeWalgreen Co.

InventorsKartik Subramanian, Benjamin Weiss, Shivakumar Chandramouli, Viral Brahmbhatt

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Abstract

Embodiments are provided for enhancing an in-store retail experience for a customer by providing information relevant to objects and services using hyper-local location techniques to facilitate identification of objects and services available for sale in a premise. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may determine a location of the electronic device and generate object capture information based on detecting the object or service at the physical premise by a viewfinder of the electronic device. The electronic device may display, on an interface, notification information particular to the object or service corresponding to the location and object capture information.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method in an electronic device, the method comprising:

initiating, by a processor, an application on the electronic device, the application associated with a customer and with a retailer that has at least one physical premise;
determining, by the processor, a location of the electronic device within the physical premise based on one or more sensors of the electronic device;
generating, by the processor, object capture information based on detecting at least one object at the physical premise by a viewfinder of the electronic device;
displaying, on an interface associated with the electronic device and with the application, notification information particular to the at least one object corresponding to the location of the electronic device within the physical premise and the object capture information, the notification information including at least one of:
an identity of the at least one object at the physical premise,
a price of the at least one object at the physical premise,
a coupon or discount for the at least one object at the physical premise,
a rating or review of the at least one object at the physical premise, or
contextual information of the at least one object at the physical premise.

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An electronic device comprising:

one or more transceivers configured to communicatively connect with one or more servers associated with a retailer having at least one physical premise;
a user interface configured to display content;
one or more sensors configured to determine information indicative of a location of the electronic device;
a viewfinder configured to detect at least one object at the physical premise;
a memory storing an application that is electronically associated with the retailer and with a customer;
and
a processor interfacing with the one or more transceivers, the user interface, the one or more sensors, the viewfinder, and the memory, and configured to:
initiate the application associated with the retailer and the customer;
determine, based on information determined by the one or more sensors, the location of the electronic device within the physical premise;
generate, based on detecting the at least one object at the physical premise by the viewfinder, object capture information;
and
cause the user interface to display, via the application, notification information particular to the at least one object corresponding to the location of the electronic device within the physical premise and the object capture information, the notification information including at least one of:
an identity of the at least one object at the physical premise,
a price of the at least one object at the physical premise,
a coupon or discount for the at least one object at the physical premise,
a rating or review of the at least one object at the physical premise, or
contextual information of the at least one object at the physical premise.

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A system, comprising:

a data storage device storing object identification information corresponding to at least one object associated with a retailer having at least one physical premise;
a communicative interface to an application executing on an electronic device, the application associated with the retailer and a customer;
and
one or more processors interfacing with the data storage device, and the communicative interface, and configured to:
receive, from the application, location information of the electronic device within the physical premise based on one or more sensors of the electronic device;
determine the location of the electronic device based on a location identifier embedded in the location information;
receive, from the application, object capture information based on detecting the at least one object at the physical premise by a viewfinder of the electronic device;
facilitate a search query using the object identification information retrieved from the data storage device, the location of the electronic device within the physical premise, and the object capture information to generate notification information particular to the at least one object at the physical premise;
and
transmit the notification information to the application for display on a user interface of the electronic device, the notification information including at least one of:
an identity of the at least one object at the physical premise,
a price of the at least one object at the physical premise,
a coupon or discount for the at least one object at the physical premise,
a rating or review of the at least one object at the physical premise, or
contextual information of the at least one object at the physical premise.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.