Techniques for locating an item to purchase in a retail environment
AssigneeWal-Mart Stores, Inc.
InventorsStefan Li, Valerie Goulart
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Abstract
A current location of a portable computerized device can be determined within a retail store. A computer-implemented method to provide a directional aid for a consumer within the store includes receiving an item being sought within a retail store, monitoring, at the processing device, the current location of a portable computerized device, determining an in-store location of the item being sought; and displaying to the consumer a graphic describing a direction and a distance from the current location to the in-store location of the item being sought.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving, at a processing device, an item being sought within a retail store;
- monitoring, at the processing device, a current location of a portable computerized device;
- determining, at a computerized server, an in-store location of the item being sought;
- and
- displaying to a user of the portable computerized device a graphic describing a direction from the current location to the in-store location of the item being sought.
A computerized server comprising:
- a product location database providing in-store locations for items within a retail store;
- a shopping list module receiving at least one item of a shopping list of a consumer within the store;
- an in-store navigation instruction module:
- monitoring a current location of the consumer;
- acquiring the in-store location for the item;
- and
- providing directions from the current location to the in-store location, the directions being configured for display to the consumer.
A software application for operation of a directional aid within a retail store, the software application operating upon a portable computerized device, comprising:
- monitoring, at the portable computerized device, an item being sought within the store;
- receiving, at the portable computerized device, a current location of the portable computerized device;
- receiving, at the portable computerized device, directions to proceed from the current location to an in-store location for the item being sought;
- and
- displaying, at the processing device, the directions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.