Method and apparatus for management of electronic receipts on portable devices
First Claim
1. A system for managing electronic receipts, comprising:
- a portable device configured to store a plurality of electronic receipts corresponding to a plurality of transactions and allow one or more of the plurality of electronic receipts to be retrieved; and
a base device configured to store one or more policies relating to generation and management of electronic receipts and generate an electronic receipt for a corresponding transaction using at least one of the one or more policies and forward the generated electronic receipt to the portable device for storage;
wherein which one of the one or more policies is used for generating the electronic receipt depends on the corresponding transaction.
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Abstract
A system for managing electronic receipts is provided. According to one aspect, the system includes a portable device, a base device, a user device and an electronic receipts administration system. The electronic receipts administration system provides the base device with the appropriate data to allow the base device to generate, store and manage electronic receipts accordingly. A user uses the portable device to conduct a transaction with the base device. The base device uses a variety of information to generate an electronic receipt for the transaction. Such information includes, for example, information stored on the portable device, information stored locally on the base device and information stored on another device such as an electronic cash register. The electronic receipt is then stored on the portable device. The user device allows the user to subsequently retrieve the electronic receipt for management purposes.
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174 Claims
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1. A system for managing electronic receipts, comprising:
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a portable device configured to store a plurality of electronic receipts corresponding to a plurality of transactions and allow one or more of the plurality of electronic receipts to be retrieved; and
a base device configured to store one or more policies relating to generation and management of electronic receipts and generate an electronic receipt for a corresponding transaction using at least one of the one or more policies and forward the generated electronic receipt to the portable device for storage;
wherein which one of the one or more policies is used for generating the electronic receipt depends on the corresponding transaction. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 114)
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45. A system for managing electronic receipts, comprising:
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a portable device configured to store a plurality of electronic receipts corresponding to a plurality of transactions and allow one or more of the plurality of electronic receipts to be retrieved;
a base device configured to generate an electronic receipt for a corresponding transaction and forward the generated electronic receipt to the portable device for storage;
a user device configured to communicate with the portable device to allow a user to manage the plurality of electronic receipts stored on the portable device;
a management server configured to communicate with the user device and retrieve information relating to one or more of the plurality of electronic receipts stored on the portable device; and
an administration system configured to communicate with the base device and provide one or more policies relating to generation and management of electronic receipts to the base device to allow the base device to generate electronic receipts accordingly. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86)
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87. A system for managing electronic receipts, comprising:
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a base device configured to store a plurality of policies and generate a plurality of electronic receipts for corresponding transactions using the plurality of policies and forward the generated electronic receipts to a plurality of external devices for storage;
wherein for each electronic receipt, which one of the plurality of policies is used for generating that electronic receipt depends on the corresponding transaction. - View Dependent Claims (88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131)
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132. A system for managing electronic receipts, comprising:
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a plurality of portable devices, each portable device configured to store a plurality of electronic receipts corresponding to a plurality of transactions and allow one or more of the plurality of electronic receipts to be retrieved;
a plurality of base devices, each base device configured to generate an electronic receipt for a corresponding transaction and forward the generated electronic receipt to one of the plurality of portable devices for storage; and
an administration system configured to communicate with the plurality of base devices and respectively provide one or more policies relating to generation and management of electronic receipts to the plurality of base devices to allow each base device to generate electronic receipts accordingly. - View Dependent Claims (133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174)
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