Patent Document ID: 8417584
Application ID: 12846582
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for assisting a customer considering a purchase of a product, the method comprising: establishing, by a processor of a current purchase activity assistance system, a combined historical behavior pattern comprising: receiving customer input indicating one or more historical instances when the customer made a purchase and subsequently considered the purchase an undesired purchase, the customer input stored as historical purchase activity data indicating predetermined undesired purchasing behavior; collecting and storing historical physiological activity data from the customer contemporaneously with the historical instances when the customer made a purchase subsequently considered an undesired purchase; and correlating the historical purchase activity data and the historical physiological activity data such that each undesired purchase is correlated to physiological activity indicative of future undesired purchasing behavior; processing, by the processor of the current purchase activity assistance system, data related to a customer's purchasing activity, the processing comprising: collecting, by a data collection system, current data, the collecting comprising: collecting, by the data collection system, current physiological activity data; and assessing, by a data manipulation system, the likelihood of vulnerability to a predetermined undesired purchasing behavior based at least in part on: comparing, by the data manipulation system, the combined historical behavior pattern indicative of future undesired purchasing behavior and corresponding to the customer with the collected current data; and assisting the customer considering a purchase of a product, the assisting comprising producing an alert, by an alerting system, based at least in part on the assessment of the likelihood of vulnerability to the predetermined undesired purchasing behavior.