Patent ID: 6434530
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: G06Q,G07F,G07G

Abstract:
A shopping system for use in a shopping venue, comprising:an interactive source of supplemental information, said supplemental information related to articles available for selection by shoppers in said shopping venue; a plurality of interactive, mobile apparatus, remotely located from said interactive source of supplemental information, which shoppers can move throughout said shopping venue and use for transmitting queries to said interactive source of supplemental information and use for receiving responsive information transmitted from said interactive source of supplemental information, wherein at least some of said received information can be formulated to influence article selection decisions; a speech interface operatively associated with each said apparatus; and, a speech application, said speech application including at least one of a speech recognition engine for enabling said queries to be spoken and a text-to-speech engine for enabling said transmitted supplemental information to be audibly perceived, whereby shoppers can receive information useful for evaluating said articles when making article selection decisions.