Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060289637A1/en
Timestamp: 2019-05-25 14:19:21
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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 60', 'Application No. 60', 'Application No. 60', 'Application No. 60', 'art.\n5', 'art.\n16']

US20060289637A1 - Media enabled shopping cart system with basket inventory - Google Patents
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US20060289637A1 US11/291,451 US29145105A US2006289637A1 US 20060289637 A1 US20060289637 A1 US 20060289637A1 US 29145105 A US29145105 A US 29145105A US 2006289637 A1 US2006289637 A1 US 2006289637A1
US11/291,451
2005-06-28 Priority to US69457505P priority Critical
2005-07-27 Priority to US70283105P priority
2005-08-05 Priority to US70577605P priority
2005-09-01 Priority to US71332005P priority
2005-12-01 Application filed by Media Cart Holdings Inc filed Critical Media Cart Holdings Inc
2005-12-01 Priority to US11/291,451 priority patent/US20060289637A1/en
2005-12-01 Assigned to MEDIA CART HOLDINGS, INC. reassignment MEDIA CART HOLDINGS, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: BRICE, DAVID GEORGE, CARPENTER, STEVE
2006-06-28 Priority claimed from CA2613371A external-priority patent/CA2613371C/en
2006-06-28 Priority claimed from EP10182854A external-priority patent/EP2273444A3/en
2006-12-28 Publication of US20060289637A1 publication Critical patent/US20060289637A1/en
A media enhanced shopping cart system comprises a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, a base tray, and a plurality of wheels, a modular computing device comprising a central processing unit, a memory and a network transceiver configured for wireless communication, the modular computing device being attached to the shopping cart, an inventory component for determining an inventory contained by the shopping cart, a shopping list component for listing one or more products of a consumer shopping list for purchase by a consumer, and a correlation component for correlating data from the inventory component with the shopping list component.
The present application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/694,575 filed Jun. 28, 2005 and entitled “Voice Activation, Speech to Text for Use in Supermarkets or Stores on Shopping Carts,” U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/702,831 filed Jul. 27, 2005 and entitled “Basket Mounted Display for Shopping Cart,” U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/705,776 filed Aug. 5, 2005 and entitled “Integrated Multi-Media Shopping System,” and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/713,320 filed Sep. 1, 2005 and entitled “Media Enabled Shopping Cart,” each of which is incorporated by reference. The present application relates to U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______ [4181-01300] entitled “Media Enabled Advertising Shopping Cart System,” and U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______ [4181-01400] entitled “Media Enabled Shopping Cart System With Point of Sale Identification”, both of which are filed concurrently herewith and incorporated by reference.
According to one embodiment, a media enhanced shopping cart system is provided. The media enhanced shopping cart system comprises a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, a base tray, and a plurality of wheels, a modular computing device comprising a central processing unit, a memory and a network transceiver configured for wireless communication, the modular computing device being attached to the shopping cart, an inventory component for determining an inventory contained by the shopping cart, a shopping list component for listing one or more products of a consumer shopping list for purchase by a consumer, and a correlation component for correlating data from the inventory component with the shopping list component.
In another embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes determining an inventory contained by a shopping cart by an inventory component affixed to the shopping cart, displaying on a video display affixed to the shopping cart a shopping list, the shopping list comprising one or more products for purchase, correlating the inventory contained by the shopping cart with the shopping list by a modular computing device affixed to the cart to determine which products on the list are present in the shopping cart, and conveying the inventory and the shopping list to a retailer system.
In an embodiment, in local memory 202 or non-volatile memory 203, the MOD 200 stores various programs and data, such as an operating system, voice recognition software, database software and populated database files, files pertaining to advertising, and an operating system. In an embodiment, the operating system software may be the same as, equivalent to, or an improvement over the Microsoft WinCE.net (5.0) Operating System utilizing the .NET Compact Framework and SQL Server embedded edition for WinCE along with standard Win com objects, drivers, and networking tool sets. It should be understood that specific computing equipment and software are disclosed herein as non-limiting examples, and that equivalent or improved components may be substituted as such become available. In an embodiment, the MOD 200 may incorporate the following types of programming: an embedded database engine, a business object layer, a graphic user interface presentation layer (GUI), one or more media display engines, automatic speech recognition engine, a bar code device driver, and an RFID reader driver.
a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, a base tray, and a plurality of wheels;
a modular computing device comprising a central processing unit, a memory and a network transceiver configured for wireless communication, the modular computing device being attached to the shopping cart;
a shopping list component for listing one or more products of a consumer shopping list for purchase by a consumer; and
a correlation component for correlating data from the inventory component with the shopping list component.
2. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 1, further comprising:
a display component for displaying at least one of the inventory contained by the shopping cart determined by the inventory component and the one or more products for purchase listed by the shopping list component.
3. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 1, wherein the display component displays that a given product present in the shopping cart is checked off the shopping list based on the correlation of the inventory component with the shopping list component.
4. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 1, wherein the inventory component comprises at least one basket RFID reader comprising one or more inward RFID antennas for determining when a RFID tagged product is added to the cart or removed from the shopping cart.
5. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 4, wherein the shopping cart is comprised substantially of plastic such that RFID interference is reduced.
6. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 4, wherein the shopping cart a metal cart retrofitted with the basket RFID reader comprising the RFID antennas
7. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 1, wherein the shopping list is generated based one or more products selected by the consumer; wherein the one or more products are selected by the consumer by at least one of scanning a bar code on a product, placing a product in the shopping cart, and downloaded by the consumer in a list.
8. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 7, wherein the one or more products selected by the consumer is associated with the consumer via a consumer identifier; the consumer identifier comprising at least one of a loyalty card, a pin code and a telephone number.
9. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 8 wherein the loyalty card is read by the inventory component by at least one of scanning a bar code, reading an RFID tag and manual entry.
10. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 2, further comprising:
an advertising component for displaying one or more advertisements in the display component;
wherein the correlation component is operable to correlate data from the advertising component with the inventory component, the shopping list component, or both to determine what advertisement is displayed.
11. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 10, further comprising:
an RFID reader for reading an RFID tag attached to an object in a store, wherein the modular device is operable to correlate data from the RFID reader with the shopping list to display an advertisement for a product on the shopping list when the shopping cart is proximate the product;
wherein the object comprises at least one of a shelf, a kiosk, a pillar, a fixture, a wall, a counter, a bin, a point of sale system, a SKU and a product.
12. The media enhanced shopping cart system of claim 1, wherein the inventory component comprises a bar code scanner for determining when a bar coded product is added to the cart or removed from the shopping cart.
displaying on a video display affixed to the shopping cart a shopping list, the shopping list comprising one or more products for purchase;
correlating the inventory contained by the shopping cart with the shopping list by a modular computing device affixed to the cart to determine which products on the list are present in the shopping cart; and
conveying the inventory and the shopping list to a retailer system.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the inventory component comprises at least one of an RFID basket scanner and a bar code scanner.
15. The method of claim 13, further comprising checking a product off the shopping list upon placement of the product in the shopping cart.
16. The method of claim 13, further comprising generating the shopping list based one or more products selected by the consumer.
17. The method of claim 16, further comprising associating the products selected by the consumer via a consumer identifier, wherein the consumer identifier comprises at least one of a loyalty card, a pin code, and a telephone number.
18. The method of claim 17, further comprising inputting the consumer identifier by the inventory component or manual entry.
correlating by the computing module one or more advertisements with at least one of the shopping list and the inventory contained by the shopping cart; and
displaying one or more advertisements based on the correlation between the one or more advertisements with the shopping list, the inventory contained by the shopping cart, or both.
reading by an RFID reader affixed to the shopping cart an RFID tag attached to a shelf, SKU, or product in a store; and
correlating by the modular computing device data from the RFID reader with the shopping list to display an advertisement for a product on the shopping list when the shopping cart is located proximate to the product.
21. The method of claim 20, further comprising locating a product on the shopping list based on data from the RFID reader and displaying the product location on the display.
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