Abstract: A method for shopping in a store is provided using a multi-network for communication in a store and a wireless end device that may be held approximate to a shopper as a shopper moves about a store and whereby a shopper uses the wireless end device to send and receive information to the store though the multi-network.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 15, 2010
Date of Patent:
December 7, 2010
Assignee:
Sunrise R&D Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
Brett Bracewell Bonner, Christopher Todd Hjelm
Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for influencing shoppers while they consider making purchasing decisions in a retail establishment. Specifically, the systems and methods for influencing shoppers may occur during a shopper's first moment of truth by transmitting through a communication network one or more influential messages to a handheld wireless electronic device or intelligent shopping cart, which is in close proximity to a shopper during a shopping trip throughout a retail establishment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 30, 2009
Date of Patent:
September 7, 2010
Assignee:
Sunrise R&D Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
Brett Bracewell Bonner, Christopher Todd Hjelm, Titus Arthur Jones, John Edward Osborne, II, Dion Brent Perkins, Gregory Michael Menz
Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for influencing shoppers while they consider making purchasing decisions in a retail establishment. Specifically, the systems and methods for influencing shoppers may occur during a shopper's first moment of truth by transmitting through a communication network one or more influential messages to a handheld wireless electronic device or intelligent shopping cart, which is in close proximity to a shopper during a shopping trip throughout a retail establishment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 30, 2009
Date of Patent:
August 24, 2010
Assignee:
Sunrise R&D Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
Brett Bracewell Bonner, Christopher Todd Hjelm, Titus Arthur Jones, John Edward Osborne, II, Dion Brent Perkins, Gregory Michael Menz
Abstract: The invention provides systems of acquiring actual real-time shopper behavior data during product selection by a shopper in a store. More specifically, disclosed herein are systems of using a communications network, a First Moment of Truth device and a data collections device to track actual real-time shopper behavior data relating to the presumed locations of shoppers in a store, the time spent and location of time spent by a shopper while considering a product for selection and products chosen for purchase.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 20, 2009
Date of Patent:
June 22, 2010
Assignee:
Sunrise R&D Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
Brett Bracewell Bonner, Christopher Todd Hjelm, Titus Arthur Jones, John Edward Osborne, II, Dion Brent Perkins
Abstract: The invention relates to one or more methods for locating a shopper's, associate's, manager's or vendor's presumed position in a store using a communication multi-network for communication in the store. Specifically, at least one location device is positioned in proximity to, for example, a shopper such that the shopper's presumed position about the store may be known continuously or upon demand to the store.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 14, 2009
Date of Patent:
June 15, 2010
Assignee:
Sunrise R&D Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
Brett Bracewell Bonner, Christopher Todd Hjelm, Titus Arthur Jones, John Edward Osborne, II, Dion Brent Perkins
Abstract: The invention relates to one or more systems for locating a shopper's, associate's, manager's or vendor's presumed position in a store using a communication multi-network for communication in the store. Specifically, at least one location device is positioned in proximity to, for example, a shopper such that the shopper's presumed position about the store may be known continuously or upon demand to the store.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 14, 2009
Date of Patent:
June 8, 2010
Assignee:
Sunrise R&D Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
Brett Bracewell Bonner, Christopher Todd Hjelm, Titus Arthur Jones, John Edward Osborne, II, Dion Brent Perkins
Abstract: A system for shopping in a store is provided that includes a multi-network for communications in a store, a shopping cart that weighs items placed therein and then transmits that weight information through the multi-network, and a wireless end device that may be handheld and/or releasably attached to the shopping cart whereby a shopper uses the wireless end device to send and receive information to the store though the multi-network.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 14, 2008
Date of Patent:
March 2, 2010
Assignee:
Sunrise R&D Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
Brett Bracewell Bonner, Christopher Todd Hjelm