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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2019
Uipco, Llc, San Antonio, TX (US);
Ravi Durairaj, San Antonio, TX (US);
Ryan Thomas Russell, San Antonio, TX (US);
Ashley Raine Philbrick, San Antonio, TX (US);
Carlos J P Chavez, San Antonio, TX (US);
Stacy Callaway Huggar, San Antonio, TX (US);
Quian Antony Jones, San Antonio, TX (US);
Janelle Denice Dziuk, Falls City, TX (US);
Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, San Antonio, TX (US);
Sumita T. Jonak, San Antonio, TX (US);
United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and apparatus for managing orders and invoices among customers of a retail merchant. The system allows a first customer to establish trusted links with one or more associated fellow customers, thereby authorizing the fellow customers to add purchases to the first customer's invoice. This allows a primary customer to purchase items for a secondary customer under tightly controlled and well communicated conditions, without extra work from the merchant. The system also uses location aware services on customer's smartphones to provide data that enhances the customers' experiences, by triggering prompts to open and close and invoice. The system also uses location aware services to determine which other customers may be in a related party together.