Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Credit or identification card systems
Patent
1998-04-30
2000-09-26
Le, Thien M.
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Credit or identification card systems
235381, 23546245, 23547201, 705 14, G06K 500
Patent
active
061232599
ABSTRACT:
An electronic personal shopping system, communicating between a store computer and a mobile terminal, for organizing a consumer's movement through a retail facility in accordance with the consumer's current location and the locations of desired items on either a shopping list or a recommended replenishment item list. The shopping list and recommended replenishment item list are hosted on a customer IC card and read by a mobile shopping terminal. A price look-up table is maintained in a store database and includes location indicia identified to each merchandise item of the store's inventory. As a product is scanned, that item's location indicia is assumed to represent a customer's current location. A desired destination item is taken from the shopping list or the recommended replenishment item list and a distance and direction metric is calculated based on the customer's current location. The system includes a processor capable of developing a recommended replenishment item list from a series of shopping history data records also hosted on the IC card. Each shopping trip results in preparation of a most recent shopping history data record.
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Cyr Daniel St.
Fujitsu Limited
Le Thien M.
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