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

Claim 15:
16. A product provisioning method comprising:
activating, by a mobile application (app), an imaging device to generate an image of a product tag associated with an unavailable product, the unavailable product currently unavailable at a first location;
extracting, by the mobile app, a price from the image of the product tag at a given time;
receiving, by a provisioning app executing one or more processors, a product indicator associated with the unavailable product;
executing, by the provisioning app on a remote device, one or more product provisioning rules, the one or more product provisioning rules determining, based on a product availability database and a user indicator of a first user associated with the mobile app, an availability result, the availability result indicating whether the unavailable product will be available to the first user;
sending, by the provisioning app, 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;
receiving, by the provisioning app, 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
associating, by the provisioning app, the price of the unavailable product as imaged in the product tag at the given time with the user indicator of the first user.