← USPTO Patent Grants

POS devices as beacons for customer location identification

Grant US12579551B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

Shopify Inc.

Inventors

Charles Anderson, Luke James Sartori, Michael Joseph DeFazio, Silvana Zaldivar

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for positioning of a device of interest within a merchant environment. In this regard, embodiments of a computer implemented method for positioning of a device of interest within a merchant environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises obtaining positions of a plurality of mobile merchant devices within a merchant environment, obtaining data indicative of a relative position of a device of interest relative to one or more of the plurality of mobile merchant devices, and computing a position of the device of interest within the merchant environment based on the data indicative of the relative position of the device of interest relative to the one or more of the plurality of mobile merchant devices and positions of the one or more of the plurality of mobile merchant devices.

CPC Classifications

G06Q 20/3224 G06Q 30/0639 G06Q 30/0261 G06Q 20/4015 G06Q 30/0205 H04W 4/025

Filing Date

2023-09-15

Application No.

18467854

Claims

22