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US 11,379,806 B2Granted
Virtual reality transaction integration
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsYehoshua Zvi Licht, Nir Veltman, Patrick Goode Watson
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Abstract
A Virtual Reality (VR) system and method are provided that integrates transaction processing. A VR session customer transaction information is obtained and a transaction is concluded with the transaction information during the VR session.
Claims6
A method, comprising:
- interacting, by a processor of a device, with an out-of-band interface;
- obtaining, by the processor from the out-band interface, an ecommerce session token indicating that a customer accessed an option to migrate from an out-of-band ecommerce session associated with an ecommerce site to a Virtual Reality (VR) session, wherein the ecommerce session token comprising a customer identifier for the customer and an ecommerce session identifier for the ecommerce session;
- establishing, by the processor, the VR session, wherein the VR session comprises a three-dimensional (3D) Virtual Reality (VR) room, and wherein the 3D VR room comprises a real-world depiction of a room having goods or products visible as virtual objects within the 3D VR room;
- obtaining, by the processor, transaction information associated with a transaction of the customer based on interactions with the virtual objects within the 3D VR Room during the VR session with the virtual objects manipulated within the 3D VR Room and identifying selected goods or selected products within a cart depicted as a specific object within the 3D VR Room, wherein actual real-world goods or actual real-world products corresponding to the selected goods or the selected products are stored in warehouses, wherein the selected goods or the selected products and the cart are special virtual objects tracked within the 3D VR room but are not actually present within a physical environment of the customer during the VR session, wherein the transaction information associated with the selected goods or the selected products that are located within the cart comprises identifiers for goods or products of the transaction, prices of the goods or the products, a retailer identifier for a retailer that is selling the goods or the products, and the customer identifier;
- detecting, by the processor, activation of a payment option presented within the 3D VR room that was activated by the customer during the VR session;
- obtaining, by the processor, payment cards registered to the customer at the ecommerce site using the customer identifier and the out-of-band interface;
- presenting, by the processor, the payment cards for selection by the customer within the 3D VR room during the VR session;
- receiving, by the processor, a selected payment card from the customer that is selected through a VR input device by the customer during the VR session;
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- processing, by the processor, a payment for the transaction comprising the transaction information through a payment gateway using the selected payment card and the transaction information or through the out-of-band interface by interacting with the ecommerce site using the customer identifier, the ecommerce session identifier, the selected payment card, and the transaction information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.