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Wearable mobile scanner system with mobile tablet having a mobile POS and enterprise resource planning application for POS customer order fulfillment and in store inventory management for retail establishment

  • US 8,972,283 B2
  • Filed: 03/01/2013
  • Issued: 03/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A wearable mobile scanner system for processing a retail store point of sale (POS) transaction, comprising:

  • a) a forearm portion and a hand portion;

    b) said forearm portion comprising a main body member and at least one strap member having a first segment and a second segment on opposing sides of side forearm portion adapted to secure said forearm portion upon a user'"'"'s forearm;

    c) said hand portion comprising a central forehand member, a palm member, and a forefinger aperture, wherein said hand portion is aligned with said forearm portion and wherein said hand portion is adapted to receive a hand of said user;

    d) a trigger member located on said forefinger portion;

    e) a Universal Serial Bus (USB) scanner input device mounted on said central forehand member of said hand portion, said scanner having two drivers, including

         1) a native device input driver and

         2) a keyboard input driver, said scanner device being in communication with said trigger for initiating a scan of a barcode;

    f) a USB Magnetic Strip Reader (MSR) input device for carrying out and processing sales transactions being located on an upper receiver of a mobile tablet device, said MSR being end to end encrypted to a bank card authorization processor for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance requirements;

    g) said main body member of said forearm portion having an attachment means comprising a base mount universal receiver with rotational coupling adapted to interchangeably mount the mobile tablet device through a specialized universal serial bus wiring harness and communicate with the mobile tablet device, the mobile tablet device having a system integrated therein that enables store level real-time inventory management and a fully functioning POS capability for selling merchandise in a retail sales environment, said universal receiver and specialized universal serial bus wiring harness with the mobile tablet device being removable from said main body member of said forearm portion and adapted to be readily docked in different base housings including portable housings and fixed docked workstation housings thereby providing portability and interchangeability;

    h) said base mount universal receiver with rotational coupling means including a rotating member for conversion of said mobile tablet device from portrait mode to landscape mode without operational delay of said system.

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