Method and apparatus for linking to an upsell system via a tag
AssigneeDigiprint IP LLC
InventorAvery Levy
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus where information relating to products and services offered by various providers may be offered for sale to customers via computing devices owned by those customers. Products and services offered to a particular customer may be related to a product previously purchased by that customer or be related to a product that a customer has access to. In certain instances, a product that a customer has access to may include a tag, such as a circuit, a chip, or printed matter that may provide information to an electronic device of a customer. After the customer's device received the information provided by the product tag, other products or services related to the tagged product may be received by the customer device.
Claims20
A method for providing offerings to customers, the method comprising:
- receiving coded information from a product tag at a user device based on a scan of the product tag, the coded information associated with a first product;
- sending the coded information to a server such that the server can provide data regarding a second product related to the first product;
- receiving the data regarding the second product from the server;
- receiving an alert message at the user device after the user device provided an alert criterion regarding the second product to the server, the alert message identifying an offering to purchase the second product that matches the alert criterion;
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- sending an order to purchase the second product from the user device according to the offering that matches the alert criterion, wherein the order to purchase the second product is fulfilled and the second product is delivered in accordance with the order.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor for implementing a method for providing offerings to customers, the method comprising:
- receiving coded information from a product tag at a user device based on a scan of the product tag, the coded information associated with a first product;
- sending the coded information to a server such that the server can provide data regarding a second product related to the first product;
- receiving the data regarding the second product from the server;
- receiving an alert message at the user device after the user device provided an alert criterion regarding the second product to the server, the alert message identifying an offering to purchase the second product that matches the alert criterion;
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- sending an order to purchase the second product from the user device according to the offering that matches the alert criterion, wherein the order to purchase the second product is fulfilled and the second product is delivered in accordance with the order.
A system for providing offerings to customers, the system comprising:
- a scanner that receives coded information from a product tag based on a scan of the product tag by the scanner, the coded information associated with a first product;
- a server to which the coded information is sent such that the server can provide data regarding a second product related to the first product, wherein the server sends the data regarding the second product;
- a memory;
- a processor that executes instructions out of the memory;
- a user interface that receives an alert criterion that is sent to the server after being received by the user interface;
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- a display that displays an alert message identifying an offering to purchase the second product, the alert message received based on offering for the second product matching the alert criterion, wherein an order to purchase the second product is sent to the server and the second product is fulfilled in accordance with the order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.