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US 2003/0200152 A1Published application
Wireless shopping system and method
AssigneeComputer Associates Think, Inc.
InventorSandeep M. Divekar
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Abstract
System and method that enables a user to shop for one or more items by comparing the items with similar items using a portable wireless communication device.
Claims9
A method for wireless comparison shopping using a wireless device, the method comprising:
- acquiring first item data associated with a first item according to bar code data scanned by the wireless device;
- generating search data for searching for one or more items similar to the first item based upon data associated with the first item data;
- acquiring item data associated with the one or more similar items using the search data;
- and
- transmitting the first item data and the item data for the one or more similar items to the wireless device, at least a portion of the first item data and at least a portion of the item data associated with the one or more similar items being viewable on a display of the wireless device.
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A method for comparing information regarding a first item and a second item using a wireless device, the method comprising:
- retrieving first item data associated with the first item and second item data associated with the second item from a memory unit according to bar code data scanned by the wireless device;
- comparing at least a portion of the first item data and at least a portion of the second item data for determining at least one difference between the first item data and the second item data;
- and
- transmitting at least one of the first item data, the second item data and data indicative of the at least one difference to the wireless device.
1 more element
A method for locating a plurality of sellers, the method comprising:
- receiving bar code data and data indicating a location of a wireless device from the wireless device;
- retrieving first item data associated with a first item from a memory unit according to the bar code data scanned with the wireless device;
- generating search data for searching the memory unit according to the first item data and the data indicating the location of the wireless device;
- searching the memory unit for second item data corresponding to a second item using the search data;
- retrieving the second item data from the memory unit, if the second item data is located in the memory unit;
- and
- transmitting the first item data and the second item data to the wireless device, at least a portion of the first item data and at least a portion of the second item data being viewable on a display of the wireless device.—
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.