Fixed self-checkout station with cradle for communicating with portable self-scanning units
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Abstract
A retail checkout system includes a customer-operated portable terminal with a data reader, such as a barcode scanner, and a customer-operated self-checkout station with an automated payment-accepting subsystem. Customers use the portable terminal to identify and log products that are selected as they move through a store. Item identification data is then transferred to the self-checkout station, where the customer pays for the selected products using the automated payment-accepting subsystem.
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62 Claims
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1-54. -54. (canceled)
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55. A method of retail shopping, comprising the steps of:
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obtaining a portable reading unit;
selecting a set of desired items;
identifying each of the desired items using the portable reading unit during the selecting step and placing the item in a shopping cart;
confirming via a mechanism associated with the cart that the item placed in the cart corresponds to the item identified;
linking, after completion of the selecting and identifying steps, the portable reading unit to a self-checkout station having a customer-operated automated payment-accepting subsystem;
waiting for a transfer, into the self-checkout station, of data identifying the set of desired items; and
paying for the set of desired items using the customer-operated automated payment-accepting subsystem. - View Dependent Claims (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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