US 12,271,881 B2
Consumer device based point-of-sale
Tuomas Artman, San Francisco, CA (US); Jyri Engestrom, San Francisco, CA (US); and Ulf Schwekendiek, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Bytedance Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed by Bytedance Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on Jun. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/343,186.
Application 17/343,186 is a continuation of application No. 15/784,015, filed on Oct. 13, 2017, granted, now 11,062,287.
Application 15/784,015 is a continuation of application No. 13/875,019, filed on May 1, 2013, granted, now 9,852,409, issued on Dec. 26, 2017.
Application 13/875,019 is a continuation in part of application No. 13/794,529, filed on Mar. 11, 2013, granted, now 9,576,286, issued on Feb. 21, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0406857 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/00 (2012.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G06Q 20/36 (2012.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 20/202 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/20 (2013.01); G06Q 20/204 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3224 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3278 (2013.01); G06Q 20/36 (2013.01); G06Q 20/363 (2013.01); G06Q 20/38215 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3825 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3827 (2013.01); G06Q 20/4012 (2013.01); G06Q 20/40145 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3274 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A merchant device positioned with a merchant environment, the merchant device comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
receive, from a transmitting location device of a plurality of location devices, a wireless transmission including wallet identifying data associated with a consumer device, wherein each location device of the plurality of location devices is associated with a strategic location within the merchant environment;
identify a plurality of expected consumer locations in the merchant environment based on the strategic location associated with the transmitting location device;
access consumer information associated with the consumer device, wherein the consumer information comprises location preference data, wherein the location preference data is indicative of a consumer preferred subset of the plurality of expected consumer locations in the merchant environment; and
associate the consumer device with a predicted location of the consumer preferred subset of the plurality of expected consumer locations in the merchant environment based on the strategic location associated with the transmitting location device and on the location preference data.