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Techniques for checking into a retail establishment

  • US 10,026,031 B2
  • Filed: 06/26/2015
  • Issued: 07/17/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • a processing device including a electromagnet within a processor of the processing device, wherein the processor programmed to use the electromagnet to vibrate the processing device and produce a magnetic-field encoded tag; and

    the magnetic-field encoded tag comprises a predefined sequence or series of North and South magnets having varying degrees of orientation and strengths arranged in a unique pattern such that the magnetic-field encoded tag when read through vibrations produced by the processing device provides an encrypted version of a unique identifier that is associated with a specific physical location of a particular retailer when the magnetic encoded tag is read from the vibrations of the processing device and decrypted and the magnetic-field encoded tag represented in the vibrations configured to be read by a consumer operated device for processing an automated action on behalf of a consumer at the specific physical location of the particular retailer, and wherein the processing device is a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device.

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