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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2013
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Valerie Goulart, Seattle, WA (US);
Stefan Li, San Francisco, CA (US);
WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Techniques for providing notifications to a customer shopping at a brick and mortar store are disclosed. The techniques include providing a wireless network in a brick and mortar store, using a customer mobile electronic device to detect network identification data of the wireless network, and using a communications module to determine, from the network identification data, the location of the mobile electronic device within the brick and mortar store. The techniques also include a server selecting, based on the location of the mobile electronic device within the brick and mortar store, a notification which is related to a location within the brick and mortar store and transmitting the notification to the mobile electronic device.