Crypto-based access control system and methods for unified shopping experience

A radio emitting device comprising:

• a processor;
• a transceiver for communicating with other radio emitting devices and for communicating with an aggregator in communication with a central server computer over a network;
• and
• a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising:
• radio emitting device communicating logic executed by the processor for communicating with a plurality of radio emitting devices to create a geo-fence within a space and for facilitating determination of a location of a user computing device by the radio emitting device and a subset of the plurality of radio emitting devices,
• the user computing device executing a user application for the facilitating determination of the location occurring when the user computing device is moved past the geo-fence and into the space, the determined location relative to the radio emitting device, the radio emitting device transitioning from a sleep state to an active state when the user computing device moves within a predetermined distance from the subset of the radio emitting devices,
• the central server computer, upon a search initiated by a consumer on the user computing device, executing geographical area specific logic, the geographical area specific logic comprising:
• i) relaying the consumer's request to a store at the determined location to perform real time product price comparisons,
• ii) facilitating determination of the consumer's identity based on a composite data structure having a data component that is locally encrypted by the user application and stored on the central server computer, and
• iii) sending event based contextual information including the determined consumer's identity to an integrated scheduling system, the scheduling system informs store personnel of the determined location.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium tangibly storing thereon computer instructions for execution by a processor of a radio emitting device, the computer instructions comprising:

• communicating with a plurality of radio emitting devices to create a geo-fence within a space and for facilitating determination of a location of a user computing device by the radio emitting device and a subset of the plurality of radio emitting devices, the user computing device executing a user application for the space, the facilitating determination of the location occurring when the user computing device is moved past the geo-fence and into the space, the determined location relative to the radio emitting device, the radio emitting device transitioning from a sleep state to an active state when the user computing device moves within a predetermined distance from the subset of the radio emitting devices.
• the central server computer executing geographical area specific logic to relay a consumer's search request to a store at the determined location to perform real time product price comparisons, facilitate determination of the consumer's identity based on a composite data structure having a data component that is locally encrypted by the user application and stored on the central server computer, and to send event based contextual information including the determined consumer's identity to an integrated store Administrator system, wherein the store Administrator system informs store personnel of the determined location.