Techniques for generating a product path with custom advertisements
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorPraveen Chandran Nair
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Abstract
Techniques for generating a product path with custom advertisements are provided. A kiosk interacts with a consumer to acquire a product or service search within a facility. The kiosk generates a path to the product or service starting from the kiosk and ending at a location with the facility where the product or service can be found. Additionally, custom advertisements are interspersed throughout the path for other goods and services available at the facility. The kiosk then delivers the path with the custom advertisements to the customer for locating the product or service.
Claims20
A processor-implemented method to execute on a processor configured to execute the method, comprising:
- interacting, via a kiosk, with a customer to acquire a search for a product or service within a store or a mall;
- searching, via the kiosk, map data for the store or mall using a kiosk location to find a location within the store or within the mall for the product or service, the kiosk location for the kiosk is within the store or within the mall and is configured within the kiosk with the map data;
- generating, via the kiosk, a path from the kiosk to the location using the configured kiosk location and the location within the store or within the mall identified in the map data;
- inserting, via the kiosk, custom advertisements along the path;
- providing, via the kiosk, the path with the custom advertisements for the customer to use to reach the location.
A processor-implemented method to execute on a processor configured to execute the method, the method, comprising:
- automatically, interacting with a customer, via a kiosk having the processor, the interaction including:
- defining a search by the customer to locate a product or service within a facility using a kiosk location for the kiosk configured within map data for the facility;
- accessing the map data to produce a path from the kiosk location to a location with the facility having the product or service;
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- interspersing custom advertisements along the path related to other products and services of the enterprise and available along the path.
A processor implemented system, comprising:
- a kiosk having one or more processors and interfaced to a network;
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- a product and advertisement service integrated into the kiosk and to execute on the one or more processors;
- the kiosk is configured to interact with a customer to acquire a search for a product or service within a facility, the kiosk located at the facility, the kiosk further configured to interact with the product and advertisement service to locate the product or service within the facility based on a kiosk location for the kiosk and to generate a path from the kiosk to a location having the product or service, the kiosk location within the facility configured in the kiosk with the map data and the path produced from the kiosk location within the facility to the location, the product and advertisement service further configured to intersperse custom advertisements along the path for other goods and services of interest to the customer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.