Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Barcode disambiguation
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Application No.: US15139080Application Date: 2016-04-26
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Publication No.: US10860821B1Publication Date: 2020-12-08
- Inventor: Adam Moshe Neustein , William Brendel , Pinkee Rasik Patel Gupta , Zur Nehushtan , Sean Niu , Shruti Sheorey , Sunil Ramesh
- Applicant: A9.com, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: A9.com, Inc.
- Current Assignee: A9.com, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Hogan Lovells US LLP
- Main IPC: G06F16/30
- IPC: G06F16/30 ; G06K7/10 ; G06F16/583

Abstract:
Because not all companies register or obtain barcodes (or other encodings or identifiers) from a single, consistent source, and because different companies can be associated with the same barcode at different times, there can be multiple products associated with a specific barcode. If a user requests information associated with a specific barcode, information associated with the user or request can be used to attempt to determine the associated product if more than one matching product is uncovered. In some embodiments, a location of a user device at approximately a time of the request can be used to attempt to determine the appropriate product, such as if the user is in a store that only offers one of the potential products. Other information can be used as well, such as past locations, purchase history, viewing patterns, and the like.
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