METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FULFILLING PURCHASES

Patent №

US 8,732,020

Granted

2014-05-20

Filed 2007

Owner

AT&T KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.

+1 more

Lab

AI components

2

vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11692714

A method and apparatus for fulfilling purchases is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure can include, for example, a portable communication device having a controller element that receives from an online system a barcode image as an object of acknowledgment of a product purchased from said online system, and presents on a display of the portable communication device said barcode image to complete a purchase fulfillment process by way of at least one among a visual inspection of the barcode image by a merchant employee and processing of said barcode image by a point of sale (POS) device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

VisionPlanningG06Q 20/202G06Q 30/06

AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning1.00
Evolutionary computation0.10
Natural language0.04
Knowledge representation0.02
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

AT&T KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.

assignment · 190790544

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LP

namechg · 326140481

Assignors

WHITE, SCOTT

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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