Apple has a patent application pending for “Bag”, an environmentally friendly shopping bag made mostly with recycled paper. Apple has also filed a patent to estimate how many bags are likely to be used by shoppers. This is apparently a measure to prevent consumers from bagging unpurchased items and walking out of the store. Yes, Apple has a patent to prevent shoplifting, but the patent is not entirely electronic. An employee of a brick and mortar store has to visually examine the number of bags used and compare them to results from the Apple process, before allowing shoppers to leave the store.
Security personnel not shown in this illustration.
Security personnel not shown in this illustration.
The patent application is part of a scenario where shoppers check out items on their own using their smartphones, presumably with Apple Pay. The patent is Apple’s way of offering security to the stores that allow shoppers to check out their own purchases. As the customer shops for items, an app suggests more items to the shopper. The type of items, their size, and their fragility is factored in, to estimate how many bags are needed by the shopper. Shoppers may separate loafs of bread, eggs or packets of chips to prevent deformations, breaking, or crushing. The patent application explains, “There can be some flexibility in the estimate of the number of bags because some consumers are less efficient at bagging and others are more efficient.”
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The patent describes a system to be installed in brick and mortar stores. A database contains the size and weight of the items that can be shopped, as well as the different bag sizes available in the store. A shopper indicates the items to be purchased by scanning the items through a smartphone, before paying for the items. These known properties of items, such as fragility, temperature sensitivity, and probability of cross contamination are factored into the calculations by a computer. The system delivers a store employee the results of the estimation. If a customer uses more bags than necessary, then what Apple refers to as a “greeter” or “auditor” in the store can initiate a thorough examination of the contents of the bags.
Apple has a patent application pending for “Bag”, an environmentally friendly shopping bag made mostly with recycled paper. Apple has also filed a patent to estimate how many bags are likely to be used by shoppers. This is apparently a measure to prevent consumers from bagging unpurchased items and walking out of the store. Yes, Apple has a patent to prevent shoplifting, but the patent is not entirely electronic. An employee of a brick and mortar store has to visually examine the number of bags used and compare them to results from the Apple process, before allowing shoppers to leave the store.
The patent application is part of a scenario where shoppers check out items on their own using their smartphones, presumably with Apple Pay. The patent is Apple’s way of offering security to the stores that allow shoppers to check out their own purchases. As the customer shops for items, an app suggests more items to the shopper. The type of items, their size, and their fragility is factored in, to estimate how many bags are needed by the shopper. Shoppers may separate loafs of bread, eggs or packets of chips to prevent deformations, breaking, or crushing. The patent application explains, “There can be some flexibility in the estimate of the number of bags because some consumers are less efficient at bagging and others are more efficient.”
The patent describes a system to be installed in brick and mortar stores. A database contains the size and weight of the items that can be shopped, as well as the different bag sizes available in the store. A shopper indicates the items to be purchased by scanning the items through a smartphone, before paying for the items. These known properties of items, such as fragility, temperature sensitivity, and probability of cross contamination are factored into the calculations by a computer. The system delivers a store employee the results of the estimation. If a customer uses more bags than necessary, then what Apple refers to as a “greeter” or “auditor” in the store can initiate a thorough examination of the contents of the bags.
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