Image Recognition Purchase System with Intermediary Transaction Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile purchasing systems face challenges in managing simultaneous transactions with multiple vendors without disrupting user experience and in allowing image-based identification of products from both affiliated and third-party vendors.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device-based system that uses image recognition to identify desired items, generates candidate items based on attributes, and facilitates real-time purchases from both affiliated and third-party vendors through a client-side e-commerce platform, utilizing APIs and middleware platforms for transaction management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple diverse APIs are simultaneously invoked by a mobile application to manage purchases from multiple third-party vendors, then the system can handle transactions from multiple vendors, but the mobile device performance may slow or disrupt other activity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server-based transaction management system that acts as an intermediary between the mobile application and multiple vendor APIs. The server handles the complexity of simultaneous API invocations, authentication, and transaction coordination, allowing the mobile device to maintain optimal performance while still enabling multi-vendor purchases through a unified interface
2Ease of operation
If a mobile purchasing system allows image-based identification of products from any vendor, then the system can identify desired items without prior knowledge of retailers or manufacturers, but the system complexity increases to integrate multiple vendor networks
Solution Approach 1:
The server-based platform serves as an intermediary that manages the complexity of integrating multiple vendor networks. The image recognition system captures product images, and the server handles the complex task of matching these images across different vendor catalogs, retrieving pricing and availability information, and coordinating transactions, thereby maintaining ease of operation for the end user while managing integration complexity centrally
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal purchasing platform that can handle transactions across multiple vendor networks through a single unified interface. The system provides multi-functional capabilities including image recognition, cross-vendor product matching, centralized transaction management, and unified payment processing, allowing users to purchase from any vendor without needing to know specific retailer or manufacturer details
3Speed
If real-time purchases from multiple vendors are managed simultaneously, then the system can complete transactions in real time, but the coordination and management of multiple transactions becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The server-based transaction management system acts as a coordinator that handles the complexity of managing multiple simultaneous transactions. It receives purchase requests from the mobile application, coordinates with multiple vendor systems in parallel, manages inventory checks, pricing retrieval, and payment processing, then consolidates results and notifies the user of completion status, enabling real-time multi-vendor purchases without requiring the mobile device to handle complex coordination logic
Data Source
AI summary
A system and related method for completing online transactions via mobile device includes a client-side e-commerce platform executing on the mobile device that identifies candidate items for purchase based on images related to an item desired by the user. The client-side platform determines attributes of the item based on an image captured by an onboard camera or otherwise stored on, or downloaded to, the mobile device. Purchase information for items offered by participating vendors, or third-party vendors, is retrieved by the platform via APIs of the vendor network or automated middleware respectively. The user may select items for purchase and complete the transaction via single click, and the middleware forwards payment details to the third-party vendors and retrieves purchase information and transaction records from the third-party vendors. The client-side platform generates a single transaction and invoice whether the selected items are purchased from in-network or third-party vendors.