Automated secure check-out and drop-off return of products using mobile device

US9911107B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Hong Li · Veldhoven, NL
• Eddie Balthasar · Folsom, US
• Taeho Kgil · Beaverton, US
• Anand Rajan · Beaverton, US
• Mark H. Price · Bernalillo, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 27, 2012
• Grant date: Mar 6, 2018
• Expiry date: Jan 30, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0281
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Generally, this disclosure describes a method and system for automated check-out and drop-off return of products using a mobile device. A method may include purchasing at least one product of a plurality of products wherein each product is located at a respective associated product location in a store that sells the plurality of products and a point of sale of each purchased product corresponds to the respective associated product location.