Enhancing a user's shopping experience

摘要

The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for enhancing a purchasing experience by enabling a purchaser to receive a variety of real-time updates or recommendations regarding products that the purchaser, such as a user, may need or intend to purchase. A recommendation provided by the system may be based upon comparing the product with a plurality of sources. The recommendation may include a recommendation that a product may near depletion and thus may need to be replaced, a recommendation that the user may already have a sufficient amount or number of the product, a recommendation that the product may or may not match an existing item owned by the user, or a recommendation not to purchase a product. A virtual closet may also be created according the systems and methods of the subject disclosure, allowing users and contacts selected by the user to collaborate on products.

主权项

1. An inventory server comprising:
a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising
communicating with a sensor to receive, from the sensor, a product identifier associated with a product,decoding the product identifier associated with the product to extract product information related to the product,updating stored product information related to the product with the product information related to the product in response to receiving the product identifier associated with the product,monitoring a state of the product, wherein monitoring the state of the product comprises monitoring a weight of the product remaining after a period of time,determining, based on monitoring the state of the product, that the state of the product falls below a threshold, andin response to determining that the state of the product is below the threshold, providing, to a mobile device via a wireless communication, a recommendation to attain a replacement for the product.