US 12,354,075 B2
Terminal device, purchase management method, and program
Jun Uchimura, Tokyo (JP); Yasuyo Kazo, Tokyo (JP); Shinji Funai, Tokyo (JP); and Hiroki Sugegaya, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/911,210
Filed by NEC Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 17, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/010763
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/193276, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-058225 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0098475 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01); G07G 1/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 20/208 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/202 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); G07G 1/12 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal device capable of acquiring item identification information of each item to be purchased from a plurality of shopping carts or baskets at least one of which having or being in communication with the terminal device, the terminal device comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and
one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to:
acquire a cooperation ID;
share information concerning the terminal device and a cooperative terminal device that is a different terminal device from the terminal device and includes the same cooperation ID, a second one of the plurality of shopping carts or baskets having or being in communication with the cooperative terminal device, and the same cooperating ID associates the at least one of the plurality of shopping carts or baskets with the second one of the plurality of shopping carts or baskets; and
generating, based on the information being shared, a total amount of first prices of first items to be purchased for the terminal device and second prices of second items to be purchased for the cooperative terminal device, in response to pressing of a total button for totaling the first prices for the terminal device and the second prices of the second items for the cooperative terminal device, the total amount representing combined prices of the first items, which are from the at least one of the plurality of shopping carts or baskets, and of the second items, which are from the second one of the plurality of shopping carts or baskets.