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US 10,769,608 B2Granted
Intelligent checkout management system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJeremy A. Greenberger, Zachary M. Greenberger
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Abstract
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: generating a store status based on shopper data and shopping cart for each shopper in a store, and generating a new checkout configuration based on the store status if a current checkout configuration is not optimal according to a checkout operation rule and collected data such that the store checkout configuration would be optimal pursuant to the store status.
Claims16
A computer implemented method for optimizing checkout operation, comprising:
- obtaining, by one or more processor of a computer, shopper data and shopping cart data associated with each of at least one shopper in a store, the obtaining comprising collecting the shopper data and the shopping cart data respectively associated with each of the shopper in the store, wherein the shopper data for each of the shopper includes a shopper identification and a micro-location in the store, wherein the shopping cart data includes a number of items in one or more shopping cart associated with each of the shopper and types of items, wherein the collecting is performed by one or more monitoring devices in the store selected from the group consisting of Wi-Fi triangulation, face recognition based on images of each of the shopper as captured by in-store video cameras, tag identification, and proximity detectors utilizing at least one of remote communication technologies selected from the group consisting of radio frequency identification, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and near field communication;
- generating a current store status by use of the shopper data and the shopping cart data from the obtaining;
- determining that a current checkout configuration is not optimal according to a checkout operation rule, based on store status data, a shopper profile respective to each of the at least one shopper, and one or more store transaction records;
- creating a new checkout configuration by optimizing the current checkout configuration according to the checkout operation rule, by use of the store status data, each of the shopper profile, and the store transaction records;
- and
- communicating the new checkout configuration to one or more user at the store in order to deploy the new checkout configuration.
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A computer implemented method for optimizing checkout operation, comprising:
- obtaining, by one or more processor of a computer, shopper data and shopping cart data associated with each of at least one shopper in a store;
- generating a current store status by use of the shopper data and the shopping cart data from the obtaining;
- determining that a current checkout configuration is not optimal according to a checkout operation rule, based on store status data, a shopper profile respective to each of the at least one shopper, and one or more store transaction records;
- creating a new checkout configuration by optimizing the current checkout configuration according to the checkout operation rule, by use of the store status data, each of the shopper profile, and the store transaction records;
- and
- communicating the new checkout configuration to one or more user at the store in order to deploy the new checkout configuration.
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A computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium readable by one or more processor and storing instructions for execution by the one or more processor for performing a method for optimizing checkout operation, comprising:
- obtaining, by the one or more processor, shopper data and shopping cart data associated with each of at least one shopper in a store;
- generating a current store status by use of the shopper data and the shopping cart data from the obtaining;
- determining that a current checkout configuration is not optimal according to a checkout operation rule, based on store status data, a shopper profile respective to each of the at least one shopper, and one or more store transaction records;
- creating a new checkout configuration by optimizing the current checkout configuration according to the checkout operation rule, by use of the store status data, each of the shopper profile, and the store transaction records;
- and
- communicating the new checkout configuration to one or more user at the store in order to deploy the new checkout configuration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.