Systems and methods for ordering graphical user interface
Inventors
Chan, Derrick • Keith-Birney, Jenna • Luna, Veronica • Dhawan, Manisha • Duncan, Berenguer O. • Lockett, Lance • Dirksen, Brynn • Howarth, Colin • DeGroff, Chris • Maier, Jonathan
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Publication Number
US-12008634-B2
Publication Date
2024-06-11
Expiration Date
Abstract
An ordering system described herein can include a rapid reorder of items without needing to re-add the individual items into a shopping cart. The rapid reorder may be triggered via a 3D touch or a long press on a mobile device. The ordering system can also provide an architecture that can allow a user to modify an order, such as, e.g., the pickup time or store location, after the order has been submitted.
Core Innovation
The document describes an online restaurant ordering architecture for rapid reordering that enables an authenticated user to reorder without re-adding cart items. A rapid reorder is triggered on a mobile device using a 3D touch or a long press on an ordering application icon, including when the ordering application is running in a background process, and the actuation directly reaches an option for rapid reorder of an item within a menu for the ordering application.
After a second actuation selecting the rapid reorder option, the system activates the ordering application and accesses order information associated with the item. The mobile device then presents a checkout user interface reached directly from the selection, with the checkout user interface comprising the order information associated with the item, and communicates first data to a remote computing system requesting creation of an order based at least partly on the order information.
The document further describes modification after submission and a post-submission check-in workflow. Orders remain in a pending queue until check-in, and the system provides order status updates and drives kitchen preparation. The check-in workflow optionally supports early or auto check-in and dynamically updates order status, and the platform also includes handling that updates pickup method based on store availability validations, including a dine-in option leading to switching a pickup method.
Claims Coverage
The document includes four independent claims across the excerpted set. Across these claims, three main inventive feature groups recur: direct navigation to a rapid reorder option from 3D touch or long press, a checkout user interface reached directly from the rapid reorder selection with access to item-associated order information and an order-creation request to a remote computing system, and rapid reordering configuration/check-in related refinements recited in dependent claims.
Direct rapid reorder option from 3D touch or long press on an ordering icon
Detect a first actuation of a mobile device triggered by actuating a button and comprising a 3D touch or a long press on an icon for an ordering application, and cause the mobile device to present an option for a rapid reorder of an item in response to the detecting, wherein the option is reached directly from the first actuation on the icon.
Checkout user interface reached directly from rapid reorder selection with item order information
Detect a second actuation indicating selection of the option for the rapid reorder, activate the ordering application as needed, access order information associated with the item, and cause the mobile device to present a checkout user interface comprising the order information associated with the item, wherein the checkout user interface is reached directly from the selection of the option for the rapid reorder.
Remote order creation request based on order information
Communicate first data to a remote computing system, the first data comprising a request to create an order by the remote computing system based at least partly on the order information.
Across the independent claims, the core claim coverage focuses on a rapid reorder workflow in a mobile ordering application using a first actuation that directly navigates to a rapid reorder option, a second actuation that directly reaches a checkout user interface with item-associated order information, and communication of a request to a remote computing system to create an order based on the order information. Dependent claims in the excerpt additionally refine the remote computation and UI behavior for checkout details, prior-order selection/configuration, pickup-time estimation, and check-in processing including store availability effects on pickup method.
Stated Advantages
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Documented Applications
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