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Methods, systems, and computer readable media for facilitating use of wireless smart devices to purchase goods or services
Mohammad Khan,Pradeep Kumar +1 more
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In this paper, a method for facilitating the use of wireless smart devices to purchase goods or services that are not available at a purchaser's location is provided, which includes providing a smart poster that advertises a good or service and is locatable in an area that is accessible by a potential purchaser.Abstract:
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for facilitating the use of wireless smart devices to purchase goods or services that are not available at a purchaser's location are provided. According to one aspect of the subject matter described herein, a method for facilitating the use of a wireless smart device to purchase goods or services is provided. The method includes providing a smart poster that advertises a good or service and is locatable in an area that is accessible by a potential purchaser of a good or service. The method includes directing, using a mechanism in or on the smart poster, the wireless smart device to access a section of an merchant's website specific to the good or service in response to the wireless smart device interfacing with the smart poster. The method further includes providing, via the wireless smart device, an option for the potential purchaser to purchase the good or service in a manner that bypasses a payment register in a retail location of the merchant.read more
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