Customer retrievable electronic receipt

• US 20070205274A1
• Filed: 03/06/2006
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bobbie Bridges
• Original Assignee: Bobbie Bridges
• Inventors: Bridges, Bobbie
• Application Number:
  US11/369,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20070205274A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/383
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/14 specially adapted for billing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 5/00 Receipt-giving machines cash registers giving receipts G07G1/00

Abstract

A method program and a computer readable medium facilitate generating of an electronic receipt of a sales transaction at a point of purchaser and transmitting the record in an electronic form to be retrieved by a buyer. The electronic receipt is a computer image representation of corresponding paper receipt of said sales transaction, identifying, inter alia, the type of product or service bought and paid for by the customer. The record of the sales transaction may be transmitted to a portable memory storage device in possession of the buyer at the point of purchase, or to a remote service provider, or to an Internet-supported electronic address of the buyer. The records are stored in a computer-readable form, allowing the buyer retrieval of the records based on categories of purchase as defined by conventional accounting methods.

Claims

1. A method of generating a record of a sales transaction between a seller and a purchaser, comprising the steps of:

generating an electronic record of a sales transaction at a point of purchase; and

transmitting the record of the sales transaction in an electronic form to be retrieved by the purchaser.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of providing the seller with unique identification data and providing the purchaser with unique identification data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the record of the sales transaction is transmitted to an electronic device controlled by the purchaser at the point of purchase.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the record of the sales transaction is transmitted to a remote service provider for storage and subsequent retrieval by the purchaser.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the record of the sales transaction is transmitted to an Internet-supported electronic address of the purchaser.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the record is transmitted in a computer-readable form.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the record of the sales transaction comprises an itemized receipt containing at least data of a date of the sales transaction, a type of product or service provided to the purchaser by a seller, price paid by the purchaser and method of payment used by the purchaser.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the itemized receipt further comprises data on seller'"'"'s merchandise return policy.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the itemized receipt further comprises data of product warranty terms.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein said itemized receipt comprises data on any discount offered by the seller according to a business promotion and applied towards the purchase price paid by the purchaser.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of organizing purchaser'"'"'s records of a plurality of sales transactions according to acceptable accounting methods.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising the steps of facilitating retrieval of sales transactions records by the purchaser according to categories of sales transactions.

14. The method of claim 3, wherein the electronic device controlled by the purchaser is a portable memory device.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said portable memory device is a compact disk.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein said portable memory device is a flash memory product.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein said portable memory device is a jump drive product.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein said portable memory device is an electronic card.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein said portable memory device is a cellular telephone.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein said portable memory device is a portable computer.

7. The method of 6, wherein the record comprises is a computer image representation of corresponding paper receipt of said sales transaction.

21. A computer readable medium storing a computer program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform the steps of generating an electronic record of a sales transaction at a point of purchase between a seller and a purchaser, and transmitting the record of the sales transaction in an electronic form to be retrieved by the purchaser.

22. The computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the electronic record is a computer image representation of corresponding paper receipt of said sales transaction.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the step of transmitting the record comprises transmitting the data of the sales transaction to a portable memory device in possession of the purchaser at the point of purchase.

24. The computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the step of transmitting the record comprises transmitting the data of the sales transaction to a remote service provider for storage and subsequent retrieval by the purchaser.

25. The computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the step of transmitting the record comprises transmitting the data of the sales transaction to an Internet-supported electronic address of the purchaser.

26. The computer readable medium of claim 24, wherein the step of transmitting the record comprises the step of identifying the seller by unique identification data to facilitate association of the record of the sales transaction with a corresponding electronic file of the seller.

27. The computer readable medium of claim 24, wherein the step of transmitting the record comprises the step of identifying the purchaser by unique identification data to facilitate association of the record of the sales transaction with a corresponding electronic file of the purchaser.

28. The computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the program causes the computer to perform the step of organizing the purchaser'"'"'s records of a plurality of sales transactions according to acceptable accounting methods.