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US 8,620,576 B1Granted
Product location navigation
AssigneeCellco Partnership
InventorsAlex Papadopolo, Derek Andrew Schroeder, Jennifer Schmid
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Abstract
The exemplary technologies can automatically offer customer directions for navigating to a store, having a desired product in stock, on the customer's mobile station, for example, turn-by-turn directions from a store that does not have the customer-desired product to an affiliated store that has the product in stock.
Claims17
A method, comprising steps of:
- receiving an input of a product selection of a customer via a point of sale terminal in a first store;
- responsive to the product selection, searching an inventory management system to identify one or more stores having the selected product in stock;
- selecting a second store from among the one or more identified stores;
- sending a place message, relating to location of the second store, for a mobile station of the customer;
- responsive to the place message, causing a navigation client application on the mobile station of the customer to obtain information regarding the location of the selected second store via a mobile communication network, by requesting a system of a navigation service provider to send a wake-up message through the mobile communication network to the mobile station, the mobile station causing the navigation client to wake up in response to the wake-up message;
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- providing directions for the customer from a current location of the mobile station of the customer to the location of the selected second store, for presentation to the customer, via the navigation client application and a user interface of the mobile station.
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A system, including a mobile communication network, the system comprising:
- at least one processing device;
- and
- at least one memory storing executable instructions for causing the at least one processing device to:
- receive an input of a product selection of a customer via a point of sale terminal in a first store;
- responsive to the product selection, search an inventory management system to identify one or more stores having the selected product in stock;
- receive an input of selection of a second store from among the one or more identified stores;
- send a place message, relating to location of the second store, for a mobile station of the customer;
- responsive to the place message, cause a navigation client application on the mobile station of the customer to obtain information regarding the location of the selected second store via the mobile communication network, by requesting a system of a navigation service provider to send a wake-up message through the mobile communication network to the mobile station, the mobile station causing the navigation client application to wake up in response to the wake-up message;
- and
- provide directions for the customer from a current location of the mobile station of the customer to the location of the selected second store, for presentation to the customer, via the navigation client application and a user interface of the mobile station.
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A method, comprising steps of:
- receiving an input of a product selection of a customer;
- responsive to the product selection, searching an inventory management system to identify one or more stores having the selected product in stock;
- selecting a store from among the one or more identified stores;
- sending a place message, relating to location of the selected store, for a mobile station of the customer;
- responsive to the place message, causing a navigation client application on the mobile station of the customer to obtain information regarding the location of the selected store via a mobile communication network, by requesting a system of a navigation service provider to send a wake-up message through the mobile communication network to the mobile station, the mobile station causing the navigation client application to wake up in response to the wake-up message;
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- communicating directions for the customer from a current location of the mobile station of the customer to the location of the selected second store to the navigation client application, for presentation to the customer a user interface of the mobile station.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.