Dynamically changing a tag's displayed content responsive to an individual's proximity thereto
AssigneeSensormatic Electronics Corporation
InventorsMohammad Mohiuddin, Hubert A. Patterson, Melwyn F. Sequeira
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Abstract
Systems and methods for dynamically changing displayed content of a tag coupled to an item. The methods comprising: detecting when an individual is in proximity to the tag; triggering operations, by a computing device remote from the tag, to obtain customer related information associated with the individual, when a detection is made that the individual is in proximity to the tag; determining, by the computing device, a price discount for the item based on the customer related information which was previously obtained; and dynamically changing the displayed content of the tag to include the price discount while the individual is still in proximity to the tag.
Claims21
A method for dynamically changing displayed content of an electronic tag coupled to an item, comprising:
- using a sensor to detect when a first individual is in proximity to the electronic tag without the sensor making direct physical contact with the first individual;
- triggering operations of a computing device coupled to a communication network and remote from the electronic tag to obtain customer related information associated with the first individual of a plurality of different individuals for which customer related information is stored in a datastore, in response to a sensor data received from the sensor that the first individual is in proximity to the electronic tag;
- determining, by the computing device, a price discount for the item based on the customer related information which was previously obtained;
- determining, by the computing device, whether or not a second individual is in proximity to the electronic tag when the first individual is in proximity to the electronic tag;
- when a determination is made that there is a second individual in proximity to the electronic tag, performing the following operations:
- determining whether the first and second individuals are associated with a same customer account or same price discount;
- dynamically changing the displayed content of the electronic tag to include the price discount, responsive to a determination that the first and second individuals are associated with the same customer account or the same price discount;
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- respectively communicating different price discounts to mobile devices of the first and second individuals, responsive to a determination that the first and second individuals are not associated with the same customer account or the same price discounts.
A system, comprising:
- a processor comprising at least one of an electronic tag and a computing device remote from the electronic tag;
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- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising programming instructions that are configured to cause the processor to implement a method for dynamically changing displayed content of the electronic tag coupled to an item, wherein the programming instructions comprise instructions to:
- use a sensor to detect when a first individual is in proximity to the electronic tag without the sensor making direct contact with the first individual;
- trigger operations to obtain customer related information associated with the first individual of a plurality of different individuals for which customer related information is stored in a datastore, in response to sensor data received from the sensor that the first individual is in proximity to the electronic tag;
- determine a price discount for the item based on the customer related information which was previously obtained;
- determine whether or not a second individual is in proximity to the electronic tag when the first individual is in proximity to the electronic tag;
- when a determination is made that there is a second individual in proximity to the tag, performing the following operations:
- determining whether the first and second individuals are associated with a same customer account or same price discount;
- dynamically causing the displayed content of the electronic tag to change so as to include the price discount, responsive to a determination that the first and second individuals are associated with the same customer account or the same price discount;
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- respectively communicating different price discounts to mobile devices of the first and second individuals, responsive to a determination that the first and second individuals are not associated with the same customer account or the same price discounts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.