Point Inside, Inc.

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Joshua Logan Marti

Jonathan Alan Croy

Michael Z Moricz

Mohandas Kannan

Hua Zheng

Renat Bekbolatov

Keane Watterson

Steighton Lee Haley

A transaction based location assignment system creates a complete and more accurate location assignment database for all products available in a store. Transaction data from checkout stands (point of sale terminals) spread around a department store, and the location of each of those checkout stands during POS transactions, is used to create a most probable location of items available in the store. Memory matrixes are built comprising product purchase or transaction information from the checkout stands, and the location of each of the checkout stands, and weighting based on other factors, provide for a best fit match to determine the most probable location within the store of all items within the store. The transaction based location system has the capability to work both for items having a single location in the store, as well as for items available from multiple physical locations in the store.

Transaction based location assignment system and method

A computer system and set of routines with access to venue maps, merchandizing plans, and store catalogs for a merchant attempts to assign locations to items in the store catalog based on the merchandizing plan and map; when a location cannot be assigned to an item in a venue, a proxy location is determined based on categories associated with the item, a number of merchandising plans across the venues in which the item occurs, and/or clusters of items. An error is also determined in relation to the assigned location. The assigned location and error are output, for example, to guide people to the items.

Location assignment system and method

A location assignment system and method assigns and stores a location to each item in a retail system product line, across one or more store venues, that otherwise do not include location information, e.g., is not included in planogram data. Specific rules and algorithms assign a location for each product by inferring a location of each product lacking location information from other items that do have a location, and assigning the location of a most popularly sold item in a weighted grouping of given attributes of the item. Thus, given a complete catalog of every product sold in a given retail store system (which often runs in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual products&#x2014;up to 40% of more of which have no location information within a planogram), the location assignment system assigns a location to every product sold.

A computer system and set of routines with access to a map, a merchandizing plan, and a store catalog performs spatial matching of items to assign locations to the items; when spatial matching cannot be performed, group matching is attempted based on categories associated with the items. If group matching cannot be performed, the location of a department or of a store is assigned to the corresponding item. An error is also determined in relation to the assigned location. The assigned location and error are output, for example, to guide people to the items.

While traveling to a destination, potentially traversing geo-fences along the way, a routine on a mobile device estimates arrival at the next geo-fence and performs a location check at the estimated arrival time. Between iterations of this process, the routine may correct the 'time of next check' based on correction factors. When the mobile device arrives at the destination, it switches to terrestrial location determining services. In addition, the mobile device monitors its sensors to determine whether motion is gross motion which may warrant performing a location probe or whether motion is not gross motion, in which case location probes may be disabled.

Battery-saving in geo-fence context method and system

Using ground truth events and sensors available on a first mobile device, an algorithm executed at the first mobile device determines the mobile device's position; the first mobile device also obtains wireless signal information; the wireless signal information is associated with the position determined via the sensor data and ground truth events; the associated data is stored and may be sent to or used by a second device; the second device may then, for example, detect then-current wireless signal information and may locate the second device by looking up the then-current wireless signal information in the associated data.

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Joshua Logan Marti