Compound Gesture Purchase Interface for Faster Mobile Checkout
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional interfaces and computing devices for consumer interactions with promotions are inefficient and unintuitive, often requiring excessive hardware, screen space, and complex menu navigation, which hampers the shopping experience and purchase efficiency, especially on mobile devices.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that enables consumers to perform purchase commands through compound consumer inputs such as gestures and interactions on a mobile device, allowing for intuitive and efficient transactions without the need for additional hardware or complex menus, and optionally skipping the electronic shopping cart step.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional interfaces are used for consumer interactions with promotions, then the system provides basic purchase functionality, but the interface requires excessive hardware, screen space, and complex menu navigation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential purchase command functionality from complex conventional interfaces and implements it through simple compound consumer inputs (gestures). By removing unnecessary hardware requirements, multiple menu navigation steps, and confirmation screens, the system achieves fast purchasing with minimal interface elements while maintaining full purchase functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the consumer interface universal by enabling a single compound input gesture to perform multiple functions: selecting an item, initiating purchase, and completing the transaction in one action. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate hardware buttons, menu structures, and confirmation steps that conventional interfaces require.
2Productivity
If conventional purchase processes are used, then the system ensures transaction accuracy through confirmation screens, but the process requires excessive steps and time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring the system to recognize compound consumer inputs as definitive purchase commands. The system is prepared in advance to process these gestures as complete purchase intentions, eliminating the need for subsequent confirmation screens and additional steps, thereby achieving fast purchasing without accuracy loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables skipping of traditional confirmation screens and intermediate steps by directly processing compound consumer inputs as final purchase commands. The system rushes through the purchase process by interpreting the gesture itself as sufficient confirmation, maintaining transaction accuracy while dramatically reducing the time required.
3Ease of operation
If simple gestures are used for purchase commands, then the number of steps is reduced, but the system must accurately interpret consumer intent
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system provides visual or tactile confirmation when a compound gesture is recognized as a purchase command. This feedback loop ensures accurate intent detection by confirming to the consumer that their gesture was correctly interpreted, allowing simple gestures to reliably initiate purchases without ambiguity.
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AI summary
Embodiments provide a computer-executed method, a computer system and computer-program product for facilitating a transaction. The method includes transmitting computer-executable instructions to cause a representation of an item to be displayed on a consumer interface rendered on a visual display of a computing device. The method also includes receiving, from the computing device, an indication of a compound consumer input associated with a consumer and performed using the consumer interface. The method further includes, based on a determination that the compound consumer input corresponds to a purchase command, retrieving information previously stored for the consumer, generating an order to purchase the item for the consumer, and transmitting an order confirmation configured to be displayed by the computing device.