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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2012
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);
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);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
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.