Patent ID: 8660951
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G06Q,G07F,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing product offers for display on a mobile communication device, the method comprising: capturing, using an image capture device disposed within the mobile communication device, a live video stream of a surrounding environment that includes one or more products; determining, by a computing device processor implementing object recognition processing, that one or more images in the live video stream identify the one or products, wherein object recognition processing provides for identifying the products in the images based on pattern recognition that compares the one or more images to stored markers associated with the products; determining, by a computing device processor, one or more offers, each offer associated with one or more of the identified products; determining, by a computing device processor, that at least one of the offers is related to a product associated with either a merchant or a manufacturer designated by pre-configuration by the user of the mobile communication device; in response to determining that the at least one offer is related to a product associated with either a merchant or a manufacturer designated by pre-configuration by the user,