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Integration of WIC items and transactions into personal shopping devices

  • US 8,788,322 B2
  • Filed: 06/10/2008
  • Issued: 07/22/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system comprising:

  • a short-range transmitter in a predetermined product area in a store;

    a storage device that stores one or more marketing messages in the short-range transmitter, wherein the one or more marketing messages are associated with one or more specific products located in the predetermined product area;

    a transmitting device that transmits the one or more marketing message; and

    a wireless computer that receives the one or more marketing messages, the wireless computer comprising;

    a card reader that identifies a user as a participant in a government benefits scheme;

    a display device that communicates benefits available under a subsidy program to a user;

    a processor in communication with the card reader and display device; and

    a utility that executes on the processor to display on the display device an analysis of benefits by performing functions of;

    displaying to the user at least a portion of a subsidized list and an out-of-pocket list;

    displaying to the user an option to claim or refuse to claim a benefit with respect to each individual product of more than one product in the subsidized list; and

    in response to receiving a first user input to refuse to claim the benefit for a selected individual product, moving the selected individual product from the subsidized list to the out-of-pocket list and displaying the selected individual product within the out-of-pocket list and displaying another unselected individual product in the subsidized list.

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