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US 2019/0102831 A1Published application
System and Method for Virtual Display of Customized Products in a Facility
AssigneeWalmart Apollo, LLC
InventorsBehzad Nemati, Ehsan Nazarian
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Abstract
A virtual display system in a facility is discussed. An exemplary system includes a server, client device, interactive touchscreen, databases, and a product retrieval module. One or more large interactive touchscreens are used to simultaneously display images of multiple products at an actual size, allow their manipulation, accept customization input and update the images based on the requested customization. Dynamic pricing tied to the customization is also displayed.
Claims20
A system for the virtual display of customized products in a facility comprising:
- a client device equipped with an interactive touchscreen and located in the facility;
- a server containing product information and communicatively coupled to the client device;
- a product retrieval module configured to execute on the client device, the product retrieval module when executed:
- retrieving product information for a plurality of products from the server, the product information including an image of each product;
- displaying simultaneously the images for each of the plurality of products on the interactive touchscreen, wherein the images simultaneously display at an actual size for each of the plurality of products;
- receiving input from a user wherein the input comprises manipulation information for the display of the image of each of the plurality of products;
- receiving input from a user wherein the input comprises customization information for one or more of the plurality of products;
- retrieving at least one updated image for at least one of the plurality of products based on the customization information;
- displaying the at least one updated image on the interactive touchscreen, the at least one updated image displayed at the actual size for a corresponding at least one of the plurality of products;
- retrieving pricing information from the server for the one or more of the plurality of products based on the customization information, wherein the pricing information is discounted based at least in part on the customization information;
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- displaying the discounted pricing information to the user via the interactive touchscreen.
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A method for the virtual display of customized products in a facility comprising:
- retrieving product information for a plurality of products from a server, the product information including an image of each product;
- displaying simultaneously the images for each of the plurality of products on an interactive touchscreen coupled to the server, wherein the image simultaneously displays at an actual size for each of the plurality of products;
- receiving input from a user wherein the input comprises manipulation information for the display of the image of each of the plurality of products;
- receiving input from a user wherein the input comprises customization information for one or more of the plurality of products;
- retrieving at least one updated image for at least one of the plurality of products based on the customization information;
- displaying the at least one updated image on the interactive touchscreen, the at least one updated image displayed at the actual size for a corresponding at least one of the plurality of products;
- retrieving pricing information from the server for the one or more of the plurality of products based on the customization information, wherein the pricing information is discounted based at least in part on the customization information;
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- displaying the discounted pricing information to the user via the interactive touchscreen.
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A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing device, wherein execution of the instruction causes the processing device to implement a method for the virtual display of customized products in a facility comprising:
- retrieving product information for a plurality of products from a server, the product information including an image of each product;
- displaying simultaneously the image for each of the plurality of products on an interactive touchscreen coupled to the server, wherein the images simultaneously display at an actual size for each of the plurality of products;
- receiving input from a user wherein the input comprises manipulation information for the display of the image of each of the plurality of products;
- receiving input from a user wherein the input comprises customization information for one or more of the plurality of products;
- retrieving at least one updated image for at least one of the plurality of products based on the customization information;
- displaying the at least one updated image on the interactive touchscreen, the at least one updated image displayed at the actual size for a corresponding at least one of the plurality of products;
- retrieving pricing information from the server for the one or more of the plurality of products based on the customization information, wherein the pricing information is discounted based at least in part on the customization information;
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- displaying the discounted pricing information to the user via the interactive touchscreen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.