Shopping Assistive Device and Commerce Infrastructure
AssigneeeBay Inc.
InventorMichael Gene Scrivner
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Abstract
The present disclosure involves a method of conducting a commercial transaction. In one aspect, the method of shopping includes receiving user information signifying the start of a shopping session; generating an electronic session identifier corresponding to the shopping session and a user identified by the user information; determining a selection of a product of a shopping facility; associating the product with the session identifier in response to the determining of the selection; and notifying the shopping facility of the associating of the product with the session. The receiving, the generating, the determining, the associating, and the notifying are each performed by a computing system.
Claims25
A commerce infrastructure system comprising:
- a transaction database configured to store transaction information;
- and
- one or more computer processors in communication with the transaction database and configured to perform the following operations:
- receiving user information indicating the beginning of a shopping session;
- generating a session identifier corresponding to the shopping session and a user identified by the user information;
- receiving a selection of a product;
- associating the product with the session identifier;
- and
- notifying an electronic shopping system of the associating of the product with the session identifier.
A method of shopping, the method comprising:
- receiving user information signifying the start of a shopping session;
- receiving an electronic session identifier corresponding to the shopping session and a user identified by the user information;
- determining a selection of a product of a shopping facility;
- associating the product with the session identifier in response to the determining of the selection;
- and
- notifying the shopping facility of the associating of the product with the session identifier,
- wherein the receiving of the user information, the receiving of the electronic session identifier, the determining, the associating, and the notifying are each performed by a computing system.
An apparatus comprising a non-transitory, tangible machine-readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program contains machine-readable instructions that, when executed electronically by processors, perform:
- determining a session identifier corresponding to a shopping session;
- determining a selection of a product;
- creating an electronic record linking the product and the session identifier in response to the determining of the selection;
- and
- transmitting the electronic record to an electronic shopping system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.