Providing an enhanced shopping experience

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9904947
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14459378

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Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for enhancing a shopping experience that include: determining, by a self-checkout terminal, that a shopper invoked a help event; selecting, by the self-checkout terminal in dependence upon the help event, a shopper assistant to assist the shopper; and providing, by the self-checkout terminal to the shopper, distinguishing information identifying the shopper assistant.

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TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION2-17-2 HIGASHI GOTANDA TOKYO 141-8664

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Smith, Jeffrey J Raleigh, US 63 868

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