Electronic transaction record distribution system

• US 8,831,981 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2012
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Proximiant Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Proximiant Incorporated
• Inventors: Cheng, Fang
• Primary Examiner(s): Zeender, F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUCHANAN, CHRISTOPHER R
• Application Number:
  US13/540,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20120271725A1
• Time in Patent Office: 798 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/21
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/047 using payment protocols involving electronic receipts
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A point-of-sale (POS) receipt management system has a computerized appliance at the POS executing first software (SW) from a non-transitory physical medium, and a peripheral device coupled to the computerized appliance, the peripheral device enabled to transmit data wirelessly to a portable communication device in close proximity to the peripheral device, the portable communication device in possession of a consumer. Upon the consumer completing a transaction at the POS, the POS computerized appliance prepares transaction data, which is transmitted to the peripheral device, and hence wirelessly to the portable communication device in possession of the consumer.

Claims

1. A point-of-sale (POS) receipt management system, comprising:

an Internet-connected computerized POS appliance executing first software (SW) from a non transitory physical medium;

a third-party server connected to the Internet;

a portable communication device in possession of a consumer executing second SW; and

a peripheral device coupled to the computerized POS appliance, the peripheral device having a display device enabled to communicate with the POS appliance;

wherein, upon the consumer completing a transaction at the POS, the first software prepares transaction data including a unique transaction identification, and simultaneously sends the transaction data to the third-party server via the Internet and inserts at least a portion of the transaction data into an image-based code, which is transmitted to the peripheral device and displayed, and the portable communication device scans the displayed image-based code with an integrated camera and the second software decodes the image-based code thereby delivering a partial amount of the transaction data along with the unique identification required for retrieval of all of the transaction data from the third-party server.

2. The POS receipt management system of claim 1 wherein the image-based code which is displayed on the display of the peripheral device and captured by a camera of the consumer'"'"'s mobile communication device, is a standard barcode.

3. The POS receipt management system of claim 2 wherein the image-based code is a QR code.

4. The POS receipt management system of claim 1 wherein communication from the consumer'"'"'s portable communication device occurs by ultrasound technology enabled in both the POS and the consumer'"'"'s portable communication device confirming successful scan of the image-based code by the consumer'"'"'s portable communication device triggering removal of the image-based code from the display.

5. The POS receipt management system of claim 1 wherein the transaction data is pushed by the third-party server to an internet-connected appliance selected by the consumer when the consumer presents the unique identification to the third-party server.

6. A point-of-sale (POS) receipt management method, comprising the steps of:

(a) composing transaction data at an Internet-connected point-of-sale (POS) computerized appliance regarding a completed transaction with a consumer;

(b) inserting, by first software executing from a non-transitory physical medium, the transaction data along with a unique transaction identification into an image-based code;

(c) simultaneously transmitting the image-based code to a display of a peripheral device coupled to the computerized appliance, and the transaction data and unique identification of step (a) to a third-party server;

(d) scanning and decoding the image-based code on the display with a camera integrated into a portable communication device in possession of the consumer thereby delivering a partial amount of the transaction data along with the unique identification required for retrieval of all of the transaction data from the third-party server.

7. The POS receipt management method of claim 6 wherein in the image-based code which is displayed on a display of the peripheral device and captured by a camera of the consumer'"'"'s mobile communication device is a standard barcode.

8. The POS receipt management method of claim 7 wherein the image based code is a QR code.

9. The POS receipt management method of claim 6 wherein an additional step provides communication from the consumer'"'"'s portable communication device by ultrasound technology, enabled in both the POS and the consumer'"'"'s portable communication device, confirming successful scan of the image-based code by the consumer'"'"'s portable communication device triggering removal of the image-based code from the display.

10. The POS receipt management method of claim 6 wherein the transaction data is pushed by the third-party server to an internet-connected appliance selected by the consumer when the consumer presents the unique identification to the third-party server.