Geographic Purchase History Map Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack the ability to view purchase history across vendors by geography on a graphical user interface, requiring customers to infer information manually without known solutions.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that generates a display screen showing a map corresponding to purchase history information, using an electronic receipt generator, storage device, and display screen generator to store and access electronic receipts, enabling users to view and interact with their purchase history conveniently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If customers use conventional systems to view purchase history, then they can access transaction records, but they cannot view purchase history across vendors by geography and must manually infer location information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms traditional one-dimensional purchase history lists into two-dimensional geographic maps by adding spatial dimension. Electronic receipts are plotted on maps showing vendor locations, allowing customers to visualize purchase history geographically rather than just chronologically or by vendor name.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that automatically extracts geographic information from electronic receipts and translates it into map coordinates. This intermediary component bridges the gap between raw transaction data and visual geographic representation, eliminating the need for manual information inference.
2Reliability
If the system stores detailed electronic receipt information for all purchases, then comprehensive purchase history is available, but storage requirements and data processing complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential geographic and vendor information from complete electronic receipts for mapping purposes, while maintaining full receipt details in standardized storage. This separation allows comprehensive history retention without proportionally increasing processing complexity for the mapping function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms unstructured receipt data into standardized parameters including vendor location coordinates, purchase dates, and vendor identifiers. This parameterization enables efficient storage, retrieval, and geographic visualization while maintaining data reliability for analysis.
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AI summary
A system for generating a view of a purchase history, includes an electronic receipt generator for generating an electronic receipt including information regarding a purchase by a customer, a storage device for storing the electronic receipt, and a display screen generator which accesses the electronic receipt in the storage device to generate a display screen which displays a map corresponding to the information included in the electronic receipt.