发明名称 |
Method for identification, tracking, and notification of abandoned items in a store |
摘要 |
Identifying abandoned shopping carts, including: providing shopping carts with locators; associating store areas with zone identifications, and providing store aisles with readers for the locators; associating carts with at least one zone; identifying carts and determining that carts entered new zones; determining an amount of time carts are in zones, and when carts are in an unassociated zone for a specified time, designating carts as abandoned and alerting personnel.
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申请公布号 |
US7463147(B1) |
申请公布日期 |
2008.12.09 |
申请号 |
US20080037929 |
申请日期 |
2008.02.26 |
申请人 |
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION |
发明人 |
LAFFOON CHRISTOPHER M.;GRIGSBY TRAVIS M.;SRIKANTH VISWANATH;CHANEY CRAIG W.;LEMANSKI KATHRYN J. |
分类号 |
G08B13/00 |
主分类号 |
G08B13/00 |
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