Appeal No. 2004-1309
Application No. 09/410,978
Invention
The invention relates to a system to facilitate shopping by using a mobile
device. The mobile device provides the user with an indication of available
selected goods or services and an itinerary of the user to visit the vendors to
obtain the selected goods or services. See page 2 of appellants’ originally filed
specification.
Claim 1 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
1. A method of facilitating shopping with a mobile device to obtain a
plurality of at least one of purchased goods or services from a group of vendors
located at a shopping location comprising:
communicating from the mobile device with at least one server a selection
of at least one of the goods or the services to be purchased by a user of the
mobile device on or before the user shops at the shopping location;
the at least one server, in response to information stored therein regarding
vendors located at the shopping location and the at least one of the goods or the
services offered by the vendors and the selection of the plurality of the at least
one of the goods or the services to be purchased by the user, causes at least an
identification of the vendors from which available selected goods or services may
be purchased and the available selected at least one of the goods or the services
to be transmitted to the mobile device; and
the mobile device provides to the user an identification of the available
selected at least one of the goods or the services to be purchased and an
itinerary of the user setting forth at least a choice of an order in which the user
physically visits the identified vendors at the shopping location to obtain the at
least one of the goods or the services to be purchased which itinerary is a
function of at least one profile of the user.
References
The reference relied upon by the examiner is:
DeLorme et al. (DeLorme) 5,948,040 Sep. 07, 1999
(filed Feb. 06, 1997)
Bull et al. (Bull) PCT WO 98/35469 Aug. 13, 1998
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