Printing Dynamic Image Content On Receipts

• US 20170061417A1
• Filed: 11/10/2016
• Published: 03/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mobivity Incorporated (Mobivity Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Mobivity Incorporated (Mobivity Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Ferro, Jay, Bennett, Bradley G., Aguilar, Roberto C., Bolton, Nicholas Matthew
• Granted Patent: US 9,727,853 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/0053 Forms specially designed for commercial use, e.g. bills, receipts, offer or order sheets, coupons
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1852 involving combining data of different types
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1868 for fitting to an output condition, e.g. paper colour or format
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0009 Details of the software in the checkout register, electronic cash register [ECR] or point of sale terminal [POS]
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 5/00 Receipt-giving machines cash registers giving receipts G07G1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/41 Bandwidth or redundancy reduction by scanning H04N1/17 ; methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/00

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for printing a receipt. Receipt data may be generated at a point-of-sale terminal. At least one value adding message including a graphical image may be automatically selected and dynamic content for the value adding message may be automatically generated. A receipt may be printed by a point-of-sale printer, the receipt including the receipt data, the graphical image, and the dynamic content, wherein the dynamic content is printed in a window embedded within the graphic image.

Claims

1. A method for printing dynamic content on a receipt, the method comprising:

receiving at a voucher synthesizer transaction data entered at a point-of-sale terminal for a transaction, the transaction data comprising an identification of items purchased or ordered, the voucher synthesizer comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor;

receiving at the processor receipt data from the point-of-sale terminal, wherein the receipt data comprises identification of the merchant, date and time of the transaction, and the total amount paid;

selecting at the processor at least one value adding message, the value adding message comprising a graphical image, the value adding message selected based on receipt data, customer loyalty data, cyclic order or randomly, wherein the graphical image is a digital image from a compressed image data file comprising one of Joint Photographic Experts Group file, an exchangeable image file, a tagged image file, a portable network graphics file, or a graphic interchange format file;

generating at the processor dynamic content for the value adding message based on transaction data at the point-of-sale terminal, wherein the dynamic content is one of a date derived from a transaction date included in the receipt data, an item description included in the receipt data, a store location, a register number, an employee identifier, and a receipt number associated with the transaction;

generating at the processor print data to cause a point-of-sale printer to print a receipt, the receipt including the receipt data, the graphical image, and the dynamic content, wherein the print data instructs the point-of-sale printer to print the receipt data first, then print the graphical image with a window embedded therein, and then print the dynamic content within the window with the dynamic content window touching the graphical image;

transferring the print data from the voucher synthesizer to a point-of-sale printer; and

printing at the point-of-sale printer the receipt in a plurality of horizontal bands until a final horizontal band of the plurality of horizontal bands is printed.

2. A method for printing dynamic content on a receipt, the method comprising:

receiving at a voucher synthesizer transaction data entered at a point-of-sale terminal for a transaction, the transaction data comprising an identification of items purchased or ordered, the voucher synthesizer comprising a processor and a memory coupled to the processor;

receiving at the processor receipt data from the point-of-sale terminal, wherein the receipt data comprises identification of the merchant, date and time of the transaction, and the total amount paid;

selecting at the processor at least one value adding message, the value adding message comprising a graphical image, wherein the graphical image is a digital image from a compressed image data file comprising one of Joint Photographic Experts Group file, an exchangeable image file, a tagged image file, a portable network graphics file, or a graphic interchange format file;

generating at the processor dynamic content for the value adding message based on transaction data at the point-of-sale terminal, wherein the dynamic content is one of a date derived from a transaction date included in the receipt data, an item description included in the receipt data, a store location, a register number, an employee identifier, and a receipt number associated with the transaction;

transferring print data for a receipt from the voucher synthesizer to a point-of-sale printer, the print data including the receipt data, the graphical image, and the dynamic content, wherein the print data instructs the point-of-sale printer to print the graphical image with a window embedded therein, and then print the dynamic content within the window with the dynamic content window touching the graphical image; and

printing at the point-of-sale printer the receipt.