Apparatuses, components and methods are provided herein useful to provide assistance to customers and/or workers in a shopping facility. In some embodiments, a shopping facility personal assistance system comprises: a plurality of motorized transport units located in and configured to move through a shopping facility space; a plurality of user interface units, each corresponding to a respective motorized transport unit during use of the respective motorized transport unit; and a central computer system having a network interface such that the central computer system wirelessly communicates with one or both of the plurality of motorized transport units and the plurality of user interface units, wherein the central computer system is configured to control movement of the plurality of motorized transport units through the shopping facility space based at least on inputs from the plurality of user interface units.

The invention presents a method and system for processing the purchase of products, goods and/or services, more particularly, to a method and system for processing the purchase by a buyer of products from one or more sellers of products in an on-line real-time e-Commerce business environment where the merchant server from which the goods are purchased lacks adequate encryption security for the purchasing of the goods by credit card. The method and system also allows for the easy up-dating registration by a merchant of the items available for purchase as maintained on the Web, DB server. The invention also discloses a method and system for avoiding the hindrance of foreign exchange rates fluctuations on the payment of on-line real-time e-Commerce trading. The system provides for a splitting of a merchant server into a Web, DB server and a payment server, the payment server being located in a nation state to which a purchaser may securely transmit encrypted credit card information in order to purchase product available on websites maintained on the Web, DB server.

Via a radio component of a mobile computing device of a first user, electronic invitations are sent to a plurality of second users to participate in a group event at a target venue. Acceptances are received from the second users to join the group event. Thereafter, an electronic chat room is generated for the first user and the plurality of second users. Via a screen of the mobile computing device of the first user, a first electronic notification is received and displayed that a selected one of the second users has arrived at a target venue. Via the screen of the mobile computing device, a second electronic notification is received and displayed that the selected one of the second users has left the target venue. After each of the first user and the plurality of second users has left the target venue, the electronic chat room is automatically terminated.

A mobile station is arranged to determine its location, which is searched against street addresses from a database, and at least one matching street address is retrieved. The street address is searched on the mobile station and/or over the network. The search engine conducts a search in the mobile station file system and/or the Internet and/or a file system over the network with the at least one query term, at least one search result is arranged to be displayed to user on the screen of the mobile station. This facilitates on-demand effortless Mobile Internet Search that allows the users to access opportunities that they did not know about, or would not have had time to find out about with minimum effort as the software of the mobile phone is scanning the Internet and information pages for these opportunities and displaying the results dynamically on the mobile phone screen.

A central computer system directs a motorized transport unit through a retail shopping facility to a particular mobile item container having at least one item disposed therein, that item being designated for return to a particular department within the retail shopping facility such that this item can then again be presented for sale. After causing that motorized transport unit to physically attach to this mobile item container, the central computer system then directs that motorized transport unit through the retail shopping facility with the attached particular mobile item container to the one or more departments to which the item or items are to be so returned.

A shopping facility assistance system includes a plurality of motorized transport units, a plurality of user interface units, and a central computer system having a network interface such that the central computer system wirelessly communicates with one or both of the motorized transport units and the user interface units. The central computer system is configured to control movement of the motorized transport units through a shopping facility space based at least on inputs from the user interface units. More particularly, the central computer system controls movement of the motorized transport units such that a given one of the plurality of motorized transport units selectively leads a user to a destination within the shopping facility or follows the user within the shopping facility as determined by the central computer system. By one approach, the motorized transport units move through the shopping facility via a plurality of preferred pre-determined path segments.

A system and method for purchasing an item seen in a picture or video on social media by tagging Stylust in the comment section of such picture or video, and preferably including the name of the item requested for purchase.

A system and method for processing electronic devices to determine removal of customer personal information (CPI). An electronic device is connected to a test device. A number of electronic devices including the electronic device are received for determining that the CPI is removed from a number of sources. The number of electronic devices include a number of makes and models of electronic devices. A determination of whether CPI is included on the electronic device is made. An identification of the electronic device is recorded in response to determining that CPI is included on the electronic device. The CPI is cleared form the electronic device in response to determining that the CPI is included on the electronic device. The identification of the electronic devices and metadata is reported in response to determining the CPI was included on the electronic device.

A computer-implemented method for processing a transaction request at a payee location using a payer transaction module, where the payer transaction module is in communication with a payment network server, comprises receiving, at the payer transaction module effecting on a payer device, a transaction request indicating a first product and a second product to be purchased from a payee, the first product having a first delivery option and the second product having a second delivery option; forwarding, to the payment network server, the transaction request; and receiving, at the payer transaction module, a response message to process the transaction request if it is determined at the payment network server that the payee is available to carry out the first and second delivery options for delivering the first and second products respectively.

A method of sharing of a product among a plurality of users includes receiving a first request, by a server, for accessing a merchant website from a first user. The first user accesses the merchant website to select a first product for sharing. The first user submits one or more product sharing parameters for sharing the first product to the server. The server receives a second request for accessing the merchant web site from a second user. The second user accesses the merchant web site to purchase the first product. The second user selects the first user to share the first product with, on time-shared basis. The server charges the first and second users the first offer amount and a purchase amount, respectively, to enable sharing of the first product between the first and second users.