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Reprinting a paper receipt where an electronic receipt was originally issued

  • US 10,217,098 B2
  • Filed: 12/18/2012
  • Issued: 02/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for printing electronic receipts comprising:

  • receiving, by a receipts management server, a selection, from an electronic receipts software residing in at least one of one or more mobile electronic devices of a user, to receive the electronic receipts on the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices;

    wherein the electronic receipts software is (a) downloaded by the user to the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices by at least scanning a QR code associated with the electronic receipts software associated with one or more brick and mortar retail stores, or (b) downloaded to the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices from the receipts management server;

    wherein the electronic receipts software allows the user to interact with a Point of Sale (“

    POS”

    ) terminal of at least one of the one or more brick and mortar retail stores; and

    wherein the electronic receipts software creates a rule for the user to receive and manage the electronic receipts, based on the selection to receive the electronic receipts on the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices, through the receipts management server;

    generating, by the receipts management server, a user account associated with the user including the selection to receive the electronic receipts, credit card information associated with the user, and identifying information associated with the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices;

    storing, by the receipts management server, the user account in a user database, wherein the electronic receipts software tracks the user account associated with the user with the at least one of the one or more brick and mortar retail stores;

    receiving, by the receipts management server, from the POS terminal, transaction information associated with a transaction with the user at the POS terminal at the at least one of the one or more brick and mortar retail stores, the transaction information comprising the credit card information used during the transaction;

    generating, by the receipts management server, an electronic receipt of the electronic receipts based on the transaction information, as received, including data associated with the transaction and the POS terminal;

    accessing the user database and selecting, by the receipts management server, the user account comprising the credit card information, as received;

    determining, by the receipts management server, when the user account includes the selection to receive the electronic receipts;

    identifying, by the receipts management server, the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices associated with the user account upon determining that the user account includes the selection to receive the electronic receipts;

    issuing, by the receipts management server, the electronic receipt for the transaction to the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices for use by the electronic receipts software installed on the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices;

    printing, by the receipts management server, a stub receipt at the POS terminal including an issuance notification that the electronic receipt has been issued to the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices;

    rendering, by the electronic receipts software on the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices, images including a delivery notification indicating that the electronic receipt has been delivered to the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices, the images including a digital button for a request for an override to print a paper copy of the electronic receipt, wherein the electronic receipts software causes the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices to communicate with the receipts management server;

    detecting, by the electronic receipts software, the selection by the user of the digital button indicating the request for the override to print the electronic receipt and transmitting a signal to the receipts management server including the request for the override from the user to print the paper copy of the electronic receipt;

    receiving, by the receipts management server, the request by the user for the override from the at least one of the one or more mobile electronic devices containing the electronic receipts software;

    overriding, by the receipts management server, the rule allowing the user to receive the electronic receipts included in the user account and transmitting the request for the override to print the paper copy of the electronic receipt to the POS terminal upon receiving the request for the override to print the paper copy of the electronic receipt from the electronic receipts software; and

    printing, by the POS terminal, the paper copy of the electronic receipt at the POS terminal in response to receiving the request.

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