Method and User Device for Management of Electronic Receipts

• US 20090192925A1
• Filed: 01/23/2009
• Published: 07/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Julie Lins, Nicholas Shiftan, Patrick Gauthier
• Original Assignee: Julie Lins, Nicholas Shiftan, Patrick Gauthier
• Inventors: Shiftan, Nicholas, Gauthier, Patrick, Lins, Julie
• Granted Patent: US 8,386,343 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/047 using payment protocols involving electronic receipts
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3221 Access to banking information through M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/346 Cards serving only as information carrier of service
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/389 Keeping log of transactions for guaranteeing non-repudiation of a transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

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.

Claims

1-174. -174. (canceled)

175. A user device for managing electronic receipts, comprising:

a computing system comprising control logic configured to manage data representing at least one electronic receipt;

a communications module operatively coupled to the computing system, and configured to electronically interface with a portable device, which supplies the data representing the at least one electronic receipt;

a display interface operatively coupled to the computing system, and configured display a displayable format of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt; and

a storage component operatively coupled to the computing module, and configured to store the data representing the at least one electronic receipt.

176. The user device of claim 175, wherein the display interface is further configured to accept user input.

177. The user device of claim 176, wherein the control logic is further configured to satisfy an access condition of the portable device in order to access the data representing the at least one electronic receipt.

178. The user device of claim 175, wherein the control logic configured to manage data representing the at least one electronic receipt is further configured to execute data duplicating, data parking, data exporting, data cancelling, and data restoring.

179. The user device of claim 178, wherein data duplicating comprises copying the data representing the at least one electronic receipt for storage in the storage component, and changing status information of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt to indicate the copied data representing the at least one electronic receipt is a copy.

180. The user device of claim 178, wherein data parking comprises uploading the data representing the at least one electronic receipt from the portable device for storage in the storage component, and deleting the data representing the at least one electronic receipt in the portable device.

181. The user device of claim 178, wherein data exporting comprises reproducing a portion of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt, and sending the portion of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt to an accounting application.

182. The user device of claim 178, wherein data cancelling comprises altering a state code of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt so that the data representing the at least one electronic receipt may be overwritten.

183. The user device of claim 182, wherein the state code of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt is altered by a user of the user device.

184. The portable device of claim 178, wherein data restoring comprises sending a request to a server for authorization to restore lost data representing the at least one electronic receipt, and restoring the lost data representing the at least one electronic receipt after receiving authorization.

185. A method for managing an electronic receipt using a user device, the user device having control logic for managing data representing at least one electronic receipt using the user device, the method comprising:

requesting the data representing the at least one electronic receipt from a portable device coupled to a communications module of the user device;

receiving and storing the data representing the at least one electronic receipt in a storage component of the user device; and

displaying a displayable format of the at least one electronic receipt on a display interface of the user device.

186. The method of claim 185, additionally comprising:

satisfying an access condition of the portable device in order to access the data representing the at least one electronic receipt.

187. The method of claim 185, wherein storing the data representing the at least one electronic receipt comprises changing status information in the stored data representing the at least one electronic receipt on the storage component to indicate the stored data representing the at least one electronic receipt is a copy.

188. The method of claim 185, additionally comprising:

deleting the data representing the at least one electronic receipt on the portable device after storing the data representing the at least one electronic receipt in the storage component.

189. The method of claim 185, additionally comprising:

reproducing a portion of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt, and sending the portion of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt to an accounting application.

190. The method of claim 189, wherein reproducing the portion of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt comprises removing administrative information from the data representing the at least one electronic receipt.

191. The method of claim 189, wherein the accounting application is located in and operated by the user device.

192. The method of claim 185, additionally comprising:

altering a state code of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt so that the data representing the at least one electronic receipt may be overwritten.

193. The method of claim 192, wherein the state code of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt is altered by a user of the user device.

194. The method of claim 185, additionally comprising:

sending a request to a server for authorization to restore lost data representing the at least one electronic receipt, and restoring the lost data representing the at least one electronic receipt after receiving authorization.