Patent ID: 9710839
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a computer system configured to provide output of a retail store over a network to a mobile device of a customer; the computer system being configured to receive over the network a search query for a product to be located in the retail store inputted by the customer into a mobile application running on the mobile device, to perform a search on one or more databases including a plurality of product records corresponding to a plurality of products located in the retail store, to identify a plurality of the plurality of product records relevant to the product in the search query, to obtain a store map, the store map being indicative of a layout of the retail store, and to transmit over the network a representation of the store map and the plurality of the plurality of product records identified as a plurality of search results; the computer system including a map server configured to generate the representation of the store map; and the computer system being configured to provide the representation of the store map and the plurality of search results as a list of search results over the network to the mobile device with the store map at a top of the list of search results for the product, each of the plurality of the plurality of search results including an icon being associated with a physical location of the product in the retail store, and to display the store map overlaid with the icon on a graphical display of the mobile device, wherein the store map represents the retail store and the icon is positioned overlaid on the store map to designate a physical location of each of the list of search results for the retail store.