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Method for Self-Checkout with a Mobile Device

  • US 20200134588A1
  • Filed: 12/30/2019
  • Published: 04/30/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of converting a mobile phone into a mobile point-of-sale device, the method comprising:

  • executing a mobile self-checkout application on the mobile phone, the mobile self-checkout application allowing a user of the mobile phone to select items in a store and tender payment for the selected items via a user interface rendered by the mobile self-checkout application on a display of the mobile phone;

    initiating a session between the mobile phone and a server, the session managed by a session manager;

    rendering the user interface on a display of the mobile device by the mobile self-checkout application;

    in response to selection of a scanning function via the user interface, activating an imaging device of the mobile phone to capture identification information associated with a physical object;

    activating a radio transmitter of the mobile phone to transmit the captured identification information associated with the physical object to the server executing a virtual terminal sales application;

    receiving, by the mobile phone, item information associated with the physical object from the server;

    generating, by the mobile phone, a virtual shopping cart to save the item information associated with the physical object;

    adding the item information of the physical object to the virtual shopping cart to maintain the order;

    receiving instructions via the user interface of the mobile self-checkout application to check out, receiving, by the server, payment information to complete a transaction for the order in response to selection of a checkout function via the user interface;

    completing, by the server, the transaction for the order based on the payment information; and

    transmitting, by the server, receipt information to the mobile phone in response to completion of payment for the order;

    rendering, by the mobile phone on the display, the receipt information in a machine-readable element; and

    optically scanning the machine-readable element rendered on the display of the mobile phone, by an optical scanning machine in communication with the server, to confirm completion of payment for the order.

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