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Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checking
Posted by Will Cover on 6/16/17 at 7:13 am06
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Amazon’s long been a go-to for people to online price compare while shopping at brick-and-mortars. Now, a new patent granted to the company could prevent people from doing just that inside Amazon’s own stores.
The patent, titled “Physical Store Online Shopping Control,” details a mechanism where a retailer can intercept network requests like URLs and search terms that happen on its in-store Wi-Fi, then act upon them in various ways.
Full Story - Amazon You Scary
Appears to only be valid when using Amazon's in-store WiFi. So there is some relief for those that are worried about privacy.
This post was edited on 6/16 at 7:15 am
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by Cosmo on 6/16/17 at 7:16 am to Will Cover
Lol and doesnt amazon support net neutrality?
Hypocrites.
Hypocrites.
This post was edited on 6/16 at 10:35 am
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by SG_Geaux on 6/16/17 at 7:17 am to Will Cover
How the hell can they be allowed to patent URL rewriting/redirecting?
Just don't use their in store wifi.
Just don't use their in store wifi.
This post was edited on 6/16 at 7:18 am
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by LSUfan20005 on 6/16/17 at 7:18 am to Will Cover
Simply can't see the attraction of an Amazon store anyway, they're only relevant due to online/shipping to me.
This post was edited on 6/16 at 7:19 am
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by Kramer26 on 6/16/17 at 7:23 am to Will Cover
They should be able to do whatever they want to their own wifi. Don't use it and you could view whatever you want.
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by burdman on 6/16/17 at 7:24 am to Will Cover
This seems like a pointless idea. I don't need to connect to a store's wifi if I wanted to check prices on my phone.
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by Box Geauxrilla on 6/16/17 at 7:26 am to Will Cover
Amazon has come full circle
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by Willie Stroker on 6/16/17 at 7:26 am to Will Cover
Amazon has brick and mortar stores?
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by shotcaller1 on 6/16/17 at 7:28 am to SG_Geaux
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Just don't use their in store wifi.
Unless they block signals and claim its due to building construction
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re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by Koach K on 6/16/17 at 7:31 am to Will Cover
Screw Amazon.
I thought hovering flight vehicles were going to bring us all of our rubber dog shite purchases. Just wait until the price of refined fuel starts moving back up. There is a reason only really wealthy people own and operate helicopters.
I thought hovering flight vehicles were going to bring us all of our rubber dog shite purchases. Just wait until the price of refined fuel starts moving back up. There is a reason only really wealthy people own and operate helicopters.
This post was edited on 6/16 at 7:32 am
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by Willie Stroker on 6/16/17 at 7:33 am to Willie Stroker
The effect of this on Amazon's profits would seem to be so negligible that there has to be another strategy for doing this.
Perhaps the advantage to obtaining this patent is to make it more difficult for other brick and mortar stores from doing the same thing. An attempt by other stores to do this would have a larger effect on Amazon.
Perhaps the advantage to obtaining this patent is to make it more difficult for other brick and mortar stores from doing the same thing. An attempt by other stores to do this would have a larger effect on Amazon.
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by GetCocky11 on 6/16/17 at 7:48 am to Willie Stroker
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Perhaps the advantage to obtaining this patent is to make it more difficult for other brick and mortar stores from doing the same thing
This was my first thought before reading the story.
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by whoisnickdoobs on 6/16/17 at 7:51 am to Will Cover
Some places don't accept Amazon for their price match.
I tried to do it at best buy once and they said Amazon doesn't count.
I tried to do it at best buy once and they said Amazon doesn't count.
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by tigerpimpbot on 6/16/17 at 7:55 am to Willie Stroker
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Perhaps the advantage to obtaining this patent is to make it more difficult for other brick and mortar stores from doing the same thing. An attempt by other stores to do this would have a larger effect on Amazon.
That seems very plausible
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by Statestreet on 6/16/17 at 7:59 am to SG_Geaux
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Just don't use their in store wifi.
Queue electromagnetic shielding to prevent cellular data usage
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by TimeOutdoors on 6/16/17 at 8:01 am to Will Cover
Not so fast, sometimes the best way to prevent someone from doing something you don't want to do is to patent the idea to ensure it doesn't happen unless you give someone approval. For example, since Amazon has this patent, this would prevent Wal-Mart or Target from setting up this system in their stores unless Amazon gives them permission to do it. I think this might be more of a patent to deal with possible business threats than it is a patent for something they plan to implement.
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by Displaced on 6/16/17 at 8:03 am to Will Cover
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can intercept network requests like URLs and search terms that happen on its in-store Wi-Fi
Seems easy enough to work around....
re: Amazon granted a patent that prevents in-store shoppers from online price checkingPosted by Cdawg on 6/16/17 at 8:04 am to LSUfan20005
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Simply can't see the attraction of an Amazon store anyway,
mainly for returns and test their in-store shopping technology to liscense to other stores.
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