Collaborative shopping across multiple shopping channels using shared virtual shopping carts

US10296962B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Subil M. Abraham · Plano, US
• Rajaraman Hariharan · Chennai, IN
• Ramakrishnan Kannan · Poonamallee, IN
• Mathews Thomas · Flower Mound, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 13, 2012
• Grant date: May 21, 2019
• Expiry date: Sep 22, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0641
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for collaborative shopping comprising shopping devices interconnected by a network and respectively used by shoppers in a collaborative shopping session, and virtual shopping carts respectively associated with the shopping devices for sharing information on items of interest among the shoppers and enabling the shoppers to collaborate on the shopping.