Location Based Shopping List

a shopping list and location technology, applied in the field of electronic commerce, can solve the problems of not remembering the product, not remembering whether or not laundry soap has been purchased recently, and not wanting to purchase laundry soap, etc., and achieve the effect of convenient determination of which products

US20130317938A1Inactive Publication Date: 2013-11-28PAYPAL INC
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
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Publication Date
2013-11-28
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A user can obtain a list of products previously purchased at a store where the user is presently shopping via the user's mobile device. The user can use this list to determine if any of the products previously purchased should again be purchased on the present shopping trip. For example, the user can choose from an app on the mobile device to view products purchased by location. A location based shopping list system can then determine at which store the user is shopping based upon a GPS location provided by the user's mobile device. The location based shopping list system can then return the list of product previously purchased at that store.
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BACKGROUND

[0001] 1. Technical Field

[0002] The present disclosure generally relates to electronic commerce and, more particularly, relates to a method and system for providing a user with a previous shopping list that was used at a location where the user is presently shopping.

[0003] 2. Related Arts

[0004] Shopping lists are commonly used by consumers when shopping. Shopping lists help to assure that a consumer purchases all of the products that the consumer needs to purchase during a trip to a store.

[0005] However, a consumer will occasionally be shopping at a store and remember that an additional product should be purchased, but cannot remember what the product is. This can occur even if the user has a shopping list for this particular trip to the store.

[0006] On some occasions, it would be helpful to the consumer to have a previous shopping list for the same store. The consumer may know that the forgotten product was purchased during the last visit to the store, even thought the consumer...

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[0021]According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a user can obtain a list of products previously purchased at a store where the user is presently shopping via the user's mobile device. The user can use this list to help determine what products should be purchased on the present shopping trip. The list can be useful to determine what products should be purchased and can be useful to determine what products do not need to be purchased

[0022]The list can remind the user of a product that was purchased before and needs to be purchased again. For, example, the user can see that hand soap is on the list of products purchased on the last visit to the store and can realize that insufficient hand soap remains at home and therefore should be purchased again.

[0023]The list can remind the user that a product was purchased before and does not need to be purchased again. For, example, the user can see that toothpaste was purchased on the last visit to the store and can realize ...