Patent ID: 11954642
Assignee: WALGREEN CO.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A product provisioning system comprising:
a remote device comprising one or more processors;
a mobile application (app) installed on an imaging device comprising one or more processors, the mobile app operable to:
activate the imaging device to generate an image of a product tag associated with an unavailable product, the unavailable product currently unavailable at a first location, and
extract a price from the image of the product tag at a given time;

a provisioning app executing on the remote device communicatively coupled to the imaging device, the provisioning app operable to receive requests from, and send responses to, the mobile app, the provisioning app further operable to:
receive a product indicator associated with the unavailable product,
execute one or more product provisioning rules, the one or more product provisioning rules determining, based on a product availability database and a user indicator, an availability result, the availability result indicating whether the unavailable product will be available to the first user,
send the availability result to the imaging device, wherein the availability result and price of the unavailable product as imaged in the product tag at the given time is presented via the imaging device on a display view,
receive a request from the imaging device indicating a selection of the first user to save the price of the unavailable product as imaged in the product tag at the given time, and
associate the price of the unavailable product as imaged in the product tag at the given time with the user indicator of the first user.