System and method for using a mobile device to locate a followed item in a retail store

US8590786B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Sears Brands, L.L.C. · US

Inventors

• Dana L. Schueller · Chicago, US
• Marisa Lynne Brillhart · Chicago, US
• Dan Grimm · Mesa, US
• John Johnson · Elgin, US
• Shubham Agarwal · Cambridge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 14, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 26, 2013
• Expiry date: Jul 25, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0639
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computing device receives information that is representative of a location of a mobile device and uses the information representative of the location of the mobile device to select one or more maps corresponding to a retail establishment. The computing device also receives information that is representative of a customer and uses the information representative of the customer to place on the one or more selected maps indicia indicative of one or more locations within the retail establishment at which one or more items determined to be of interest to the customer are located. The one or more selected maps with the indicia are then provided to the mobile device for display.