Patents by Inventor Jessica Suzanne King SNEAD

Jessica Suzanne King SNEAD has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9424601
    Abstract: Method, computer program product, and system to facilitate a checkout transaction for a person within an environment having a plurality of items. The method includes determining, using a visual sensor disposed within the environment, image information associated with the person. The method further includes analyzing the image information to identify one or more of the plurality of items that are selected by the person to be presented during the checkout transaction. In some cases, the method also includes determining whether the identified items belong to a predetermined class of items deemed to be “difficult.” The method further includes determining, based on the one or more identified items, a level of assistance to provide to the person during the checkout transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susan Winter Brosnan, Daniel Robert Goins, Patricia Stephany Hogan, David Christopher Klages, Jessica Suzanne King Snead
  • Publication number: 20160110797
    Abstract: Method, computer program product, and system to facilitate a checkout transaction for a person within an environment having a plurality of items. The method includes determining, using a visual sensor disposed within the environment, image information associated with the person. The method further includes analyzing the image information to identify one or more of the plurality of items that are selected by the person to be presented during the checkout transaction. In some cases, the method also includes determining whether the identified items belong to a predetermined class of items deemed to be “difficult.” The method further includes determining, based on the one or more identified items, a level of assistance to provide to the person during the checkout transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Susan Winter BROSNAN, Daniel Robert GOINS, Patricia Stephany HOGAN, David Christopher KLAGES, Jessica Suzanne King SNEAD
  • Publication number: 20160110700
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving location data identifying a plurality of areas visited by a person in a shopping environment providing self-serve-checkout, identifying, based on the location data, a first product located in a first area of the plurality of areas in the shopping environment visited by the person, and returning an indication to perform an audit to determine whether the person is in possession of the first product without including the first product as part of a purchase completed by the person using self-serve-checkout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Susan Winter BROSNAN, Daniel Robert GOINS, Patricia Stephany HOGAN, David Christopher KLAGES, Jessica Suzanne King SNEAD