SYSTEM FOR EMBEDDING MAPS WITHIN RETAIL STORE SEARCH RESULTS AND METHOD OF USING SAME

摘要

A system and method includes receiving a search query for a product to be located in a retail store, performing a search on a plurality of products records corresponding to a plurality of products located in the retail store, identifying one or more of the product records relevant to the product in the search query, obtaining a store map, the store map being indicative of a layout of the retail store, transmitting a representation of the store map and the one or more product records identified as one or more search results, and providing the one or more search results as a list to a mobile device, each of the one or more search results being associated with a physical location of the product in the retail store, and present the store map overlaid with an icon on a graphical display of the mobile device, wherein the store map represents the retail store and the icon is positioned overlaid on the map to designate a physical location of a corresponding one or more of the list of search results for the retail store.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a computer system configured to provide output of a retail store over a network to a mobile device of a customer; the computer system being configured to receive over the network a search query for a product to be located in the retail store inputted by the customer into a mobile application running on the mobile device, perform a search on one or more databases including a plurality of products records corresponding to a plurality of products located in the retail store, to identify a plurality of the product records relevant to the product in the search query, to obtain a store map, the store map being indicative of a layout of the retail store, and to transmit over the network a representation of the store map and the plurality of product records identified as a plurality of search results; and the computer system being configured to provide the plurality of search results as a list over the network to the mobile device, each of the plurality of search results including an icon being associated with a physical location of the product in the retail store, and present the store map overlaid with the icon on a graphical display of the mobile device, wherein the store map represents the retail store and the icon is positioned overlaid on the map to designate a physical location of each of the list of search results for the retail store.