PAPERLESS CONSUMER COUPON SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20100268592A1
• Filed: 04/20/2009
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Steven J. Shaer
• Original Assignee: Steven J. Shaer
• Inventors: SHAER, Steven J.
• Application Number:
  US12/426,842
• Publication Number:
  US 20100268592A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.380
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0238 at point-of-sale [POS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2755 by optical scanning

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for promotion processing and delivery, including a smart phone having a capture function for capturing a product code of an item, wherein the smart phone is configured to generate and display a promotion having a barcode based on the captured product code of the item; and a point-of-sale terminal configured to read the displayed barcode of the promotion from the display of the smart phone, wherein the point-of-sale terminal applies the promotion based on the read barcode to a sales transaction.

Claims

1. A computer implemented system for promotion processing and delivery, the system comprising:

a smart phone having a capture function for capturing a product code of an item, wherein the smart phone is configured to generate and display a promotion having a barcode based on the captured product code of the item; and

a point-of-sale terminal configured to read the displayed barcode of the promotion from the display of the smart phone, wherein the point-of-sale terminal applies the promotion based on the read barcode to a sales transaction.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein capture function is an imaging function for image capturing the product code of the item and determining a value of the product code based on the captured image.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein capture function is a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) function for electronically capturing a value of the product code of the item.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the smart phone has a global positioning system (GPS) function for determining the promotion based on a location of the smart phone.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the product code of the item is captured by the smart phone at a home of a user or while the user is in a store.

6. A computer implemented method for promotion processing and delivery, the method comprising:

capturing a product code of an item via a capture function of a smart phone;

generating and displaying by the smart phone a promotion having a barcode based on the captured product code of the item;

reading by a point-of-sale terminal the displayed barcode of the promotion from the display of the smart phone; and

applying by the point-of-sale terminal the promotion based on the read barcode to a sales transaction.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein capture function is an imaging function for image capturing the product code of the item and determining a value of the product code based on the captured image.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein capture function is a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) function for electronically capturing a value of the product code of the item.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising determining the promotion based on a location of the smart phone determined by a global positioning system (GPS) function of the smart phone.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising capturing the product code of the item by the smart phone at a home of a user or while the user is in a store.

11. A computer program product for promotion processing and delivery, and including one or more computer readable instructions embedded on a tangible computer readable medium and configured to cause one or more computer processors to perform the steps of:

capturing a product code of an item via a capture function of a smart phone;

generating and displaying by the smart phone a promotion having a barcode based on the captured product code of the item;

reading by a point-of-sale terminal the displayed barcode of the promotion from the display of the smart phone; and

applying by the point-of-sale terminal the promotion based on the read barcode to a sales transaction.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein capture function is an imaging function for image capturing the product code of the item and determining a value of the product code based on the captured image.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein capture function is a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) function for electronically capturing a value of the product code of the item.

14. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising determining the promotion based on a location of the smart phone determined by a global positioning system (GPS) function of the smart phone.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising capturing the product code of the item by the smart phone at a home of a user or while the user is in a store.