MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547081410 A) filed by Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, U.S.A., on Aug. 28, for 'systems and methods of controlling devices to enable physical retail commerce embedded into non-retail applications.'
Inventor(s) include Rodriguez, Francisco, J; Van Damme, Jean; and Genualdi, Andrew, P.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Some embodiments provide systems to control user computing devices to enable purchases, the system comprising: a product database; an inventory database; and a purchasing control circuit configured to: receive a prepare order API call from a third party gaming server and without a third party intermediary service, the prepare order API call comprises product identifying information of a first product, and is initiated through a separate gaming application executed on a remote user computing device; execute the prepare order API to obtain first product information and communicate directly with the gaming server a purchase order comprising at least some of the first product information to control the user computing device through the gaming application to render within a gaming graphical user interface a purchase order user interface; and complete a sale in response to receiving a confirmation directly from the gaming server, without the third party intermediary service."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 02, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/014253.
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