Capturing transaction context
AssigneeShopify Inc.
InventorsDaanish Maan, Ricardo Vazquez, Peter Nitsch, Zhi Hui Fang, Djoume Salvetti
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Abstract
Disclosed are systems and methods of capturing sensor data associated with a retail location. The systems and methods further include a point-of-sale device for processing customer transactions and generating an event trigger for capturing sensor data from one or more of the sensors at the retail location. In response to the event trigger, the systems and methods capture data from the one or more sensors at the retail location and provide access to the stored sensor data and event triggers via a user interface of the point-of-sale device for review of the stored sensor data and event trigger.
Claims20
A method at a network element, the method comprising:
- receiving a trigger from a portable point of sale terminal;
- obtaining, at the network element, image data from at least one image capture device;
- determining a location of the portable point of sale terminal based on analysis of appearance of the point of sale terminal in the image data;
- correlating the location of the portable point of sale terminal with data from sensors associated with the network element;
- and
- presenting the correlated data to a merchant.
A network element comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a communications interface;
- wherein the network element is configured to:
- receive a trigger from a portable point of sale terminal;
- obtain, at the network element, image data from at least one image capture device;
- determine a location of the portable point of sale terminal based on analysis of appearance of the point of sale terminal in the image data;
- correlate the location of the portable point of sale terminal with data from sensors associated with the network element;
- and
- present the correlated data to a merchant.
A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing instruction code which, when executed by a processor of a network element cause the network element to:
- receive a trigger from a portable point of sale terminal;
- obtain, at the network element, image data from at least one image capture device;
- determine a location of the portable point of sale terminal based on analysis of appearance of the point of sale terminal in the image data;
- correlate the location of the portable point of sale terminal with data from sensors associated with the network element;
- and
- present the correlated data to a merchant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.