Mobile App Product Bundle Interface

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Solution Overview

Problem

Retailers face challenges in informing consumers about product compatibility, leading to missed sales opportunities and increased returns due to consumers' lack of knowledge about complementary products, which affects brick-and-mortar store revenues.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that uses a mobile app to scan product barcodes, providing users with compatible product recommendations and location information within a retail store, with geofencing to ensure compatibility information is only accessible within the store and preventing screenshot capture to deter cross-retailer purchases.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If product compatibility information is provided through advertising and in-store signage, then consumer awareness of complementary products is improved, but information delivery effectiveness deteriorates due to consumers not receiving such information readily

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduct compatibility information deliveryVSAvoidinformation accessibility to consumers

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables consumers to autonomously scan product barcodes using mobile devices and receive personalized compatibility information through an application, eliminating the need for traditional advertising and signage that consumers may overlook

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Physical advertising materials and signage are replaced with a digital mobile application system that uses barcode scanning technology to deliver product compatibility information directly to consumers in real-time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Reliability

If geofencing and screenshot prevention measures are implemented, then retailer sales protection is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveretailer sales protectionVSAvoidsystem implementation complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile application acts as an intermediary between the retailer's product information system and the consumer device, implementing geofencing and screenshot prevention controls within the application layer without requiring complex modifications to underlying system infrastructure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes operational parameters such as geographic location parameters for geofencing and interface capture parameters for screenshot prevention, allowing sales protection without fundamentally altering the core system architecture

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10872371B2Techniques for package bundling and interfaces

Publication Date: 2020.12.22 NCR VOYIX CORP

AI summary

An operating-facing interface is provided with a mobile application for scanning a product code of a product. The product code is processed to generate a product package bundle that includes the product code and a plurality of other product codes that identify compatible products that have a relationship to the product. The operating-facing interface provides options for obtaining product information regarding the compatible products from the application.