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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2012
Applicants:

Anup D. Karnalkar, Allen, TX (US);

R. Tyler Wallis, Sr., Dallas, TX (US);

William S. Robbins, Sun Prairie, WI (US);

Susan S. Steele, Alpharetta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Anup D. Karnalkar, Allen, TX (US);

R. Tyler Wallis, Sr., Dallas, TX (US);

William S. Robbins, Sun Prairie, WI (US);

Susan S. Steele, Alpharetta, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0207 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0603 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0639 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to present a plurality of selectable commodity items, detect one or more selections from the plurality of commodity items, generate a list from the one or more commodity items selected, and transmit the list to a system. The system can be adapted to receive the list from the communication device, determine a selection order for the items in the list based on a location of each item in a store and at least one characteristic of at least one of the items, update the list according to the selection order, and transmit the updated list to a device for conducting commodity shopping according to the adjusted list. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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