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US 12,412,201 B2Granted
Automated product offering
AssigneeFUJIFILM North America Corporation
InventorCharles L. DuBois
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Abstract
Automating a product offering presented in a consumer kiosk application for creating and order consumer photo-related products. An automated product offering system determines in real-time or near real-time the availability of products to be offered to the consumer and adjusts the display on the kiosk GUI to guide the user to select products that are currently available. The product availability may be specific to a location and a retailer hosting the consumer kiosk application. The kiosk GUI display is adjusted in accordance with product advertising and promotional campaigns to guide the user to generate orders for products that offer the best value to the consumer while helping retailers and kiosk operators succeed with advertising campaigns.
Claims16
An auto product offering computer system for facilitating a selection of a photo-customized product, the system comprising:
- a consumer kiosk having a graphical user interface on a display device for selecting a photo-customized product, the consumer kiosk in communication with a catalog server having a catalog of photo-customizable products from which to select;
- a remote product server in communication with the catalog server, the remote product server fulfilling orders for the photo-customizable products, the orders placed by users of the consumer kiosk;
- a processor coupled to the consumer kiosk and the catalog server operating a product availability manager to determine whether products are available for fulfillment from the remote product server;
- a local product server in communication with the consumer kiosk;
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- wherein the processor is configured to:
- obtain a local availability of a first photo-customized product indicating whether or not the first photo-customized product is available at the local product server and first settings of the local product server indicating whether or not one or more media items to print onto the first photo-customized product are loaded into an equipment and the equipment to print the one or more media items onto the first photo-customized product is available;
- display the graphical user interface including a first product representation that is configured for the users of the consumer kiosk to select the first photo-customized product, if the first photo-customized product is available at the local product server, the first settings of the local product server indicate that the one or more media items are loaded into the equipment, and the equipment to print the one or more media items on the first photo-customized product is available, and
- display the graphical user interface including a second product representation for the users of the consumer kiosk to select a second photo-customized product that is other than the first photo-customized product, if the first photo-customized product is not available at the local product server, the first settings indicate that at least one of the one or more media items to print onto the first photo-customized product is not loaded into the equipment or the equipment to print the one or more media items onto the first photo-customized product is not available,
- wherein the processor is further operating a product advertising manager that is configured to:
- periodically determine if the first photo-customized product is eligible for at least one of promotions or advertising to the users of the consumer kiosk from second settings of the local product server indicating whether or not the first photo-customized product is eligible for the at least one of promotions or advertising;
- display an updated graphical user interface including a third product representation including at least one of promotions or advertising information with the first product representation if the second settings of the local product server indicate that the first photo-customized product is eligible for the at least one of promotions or advertising;
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- display the graphical user interface including the first product representation if the second settings of the local product server indicate that the first photo-customized product is not eligible for the at least one of promotions or advertising,
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- receive, via one of the graphical user interface or the updated graphical user interface, a user selection of the first product representation;
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- print the one or more media items onto the first photo-customized product at the equipment in response to the user selection of the first product representation.
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An auto product offering computer system for facilitating a selection of a photo-customized product, the system comprising:
- a consumer kiosk having a graphical user interface on a display device for selecting a photo-customized product, the consumer kiosk in communication with a catalog server having a catalog of photo-customizable products from which to select;
- a remote product server in communication with the catalog server, the remote product server fulfilling orders for the photo-customizable products, the orders placed by users of the consumer kiosk;
- a processor coupled to the consumer kiosk and the catalog server operating a product availability manager to determine whether products are available for fulfillment from the remote product server;
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- a local product server in communication with the consumer kiosk, the local product server fulfilling the orders for the photo-customizable products at or near a location of the consumer kiosk;
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- obtain a local availability of a first photo-customized product indicating whether or not the first photo-customized product is available at the local product server and first settings of the local product server indicating whether or not one or more media items are loaded into an equipment and the equipment to print the one or more media items on the first photo-customized product is available;
- display the graphical user interface including a first product representation that is configured for the users of the consumer kiosk to select the first photo-customized product if the first photo-customized product is available at the local product server and the first settings of the local product server indicate that the one or more media items are loaded into the equipment and the equipment to print the one or more media items on the first photo-customized product is available, and
- display the graphical user interface including a second product representation for the users of the consumer kiosk to select a second photo-customized product that is other than the first photo-customized product, if the first settings indicate that at least one of the one or more media items are not loaded into the equipment that generates the first photo-customized product or the equipment that generates the first photo-customized product is not available, wherein the processor is further operating a product advertising manager that is configured to:
- periodically determine if the first photo-customized product is eligible for at least one of promotions or advertising to the users of the consumer kiosk from second settings of the local product server indicating whether or not the first photo-customized product is eligible for the at least one of promotions or advertising;
- display an updated graphical user interface including a third product representation including at least one of promotions or advertising information with the first product representation if the second settings of the local product server indicate that the first photo-customized product is eligible for the at least one of promotions or advertising;
- display the graphical user interface including the first product representation if the second settings of the local product server indicate that the first photo-customized product is not eligible for the at least one of promotions or advertising;
- obtain, a first availability of the first photo-customized product indicating that the first photo-customized product is available on the remote product server;
- override the first availability of the first photo-customized product with the local availability of the first photo-customized product when the local availability indicates that the first photo-customized product is available at the local product server, the first settings of the local product server indicate that the one or more media items are loaded into the equipment and the equipment to print the one or more media items onto the first photo-customized product is available;
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- adjust the graphical user interface to generate the orders to print the one or more media items onto the first photo-customized product that is locally available at the equipment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.