Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Rachel Lucy Murphy

Colin S I'Anson

David Mark Frohlich

Abigail Jane Sellen

A shopping assistance method and service system is provided in which a shopper captures information about an item of interest () and sends it over a mobile radio infrastructure () to a service system (). At the service system, the information is processed to identify at least the type of item of interest. A determination is also made of a location associated with the information, this location will generally be that of the store () where the shopper captured the information, but could also be the shopper's home location. The service system next carries out a specific task () relating to the identified item (), such as obtaining comparative prices, and then provides a report back to the shopper, the contents and/or organisation of the report taking account of the location previously determined as being associated with the information.

Shopping assistance service

A storage apparatus for sentimental electronic memorabilia includes a memory and processor for the storage and manipulation of files within which memorabilia is stored, and a monitor for assimilating the memorabilia; in the case of visually assimilable files, the monitor is a visual monitor. Each file is associated with an artefact which acts as a vehicle for the establishment of sentimental links to electronically stored information. The artefacts are stored within a box which also houses the monitor and processor. The association of artefacts with files is through the provision of an rf tag identifier on the artefact. Once the identifier is read by an rf tag reader on the box, the file corresponding to the identifier is retrieved from the memory and furnished to a user in an assimilable form by means of the monitor.

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Rachel Lucy Murphy