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Using radio frequency identification with customer loyalty cards to detect and/or prevent theft and shoplifting

  • US 7,530,489 B2
  • Filed: 04/10/2007
  • Issued: 05/12/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer program product for preparing information usable in theft detection using radio frequency identification (“

  • RFID”

    ) technology, the computer program product embodied on one or more computer-readable media and comprising;

    computer-readable program code for reading, for a current transaction, a customer identifier from a customer loyalty card; and

    computer-readable program code for storing, during the current transaction, the customer identifier in an item-identifying RFID tag affixed to each of at least one items being paid for by a shopper in the current transaction, such that the RFID tag affixed to each of at least one items possessed by the shopper can subsequently be searched to determine whether the at least one possessed items were paid for in the current transaction.

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