Paperless receipt device

• US 9,159,060 B2
• Filed: 01/05/2014
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bintab LLC
• Original Assignee: Samuel K. Simpson
• Inventors: Simpson, Samuel K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Frech, Karl D
• Application Number:
  US14/147,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20150193752A1
• Time in Patent Office: 646 Days
• Field of Search: 235/383, 235/379
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/047 using payment protocols involving electronic receipts
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A process and apparatus provide a paperless electronic receipt. A storage device stores a communication identifier prior to a transaction at a point of transaction. Further, a transmitter sends the communication identifier to a point of transaction receipt transmission device at a point of transaction so that the point of transaction receipt transmission device sends an electronic receipt of a transaction at the point of transaction to the communication identifier based upon a selection being received at the point of transaction receipt transmission device to send the electronic receipt to the communication identifier. In addition, the electronic receipt is received and stored at the storage device based upon a selection being received at the point of transaction receipt transmission device to store the electronic receipt at the storage device.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a storage device that stores a communication identifier prior to a transaction at a point of transaction, the communication identifier being an e-mail address;

a transmitter in operable communication with the storage device that automatically sends the communication identifier to a point of transaction receipt transmission device at a point of transaction without a manual entry of the communication identifier at the point of transaction so that the point of transaction receipt transmission device sends an electronic receipt of a transaction at the point of transaction to the communication identifier.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the transmitter is a wireless transmitter that wirelessly sends the communication identifier to the point of transaction receipt transmission device.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the transmitter sends the communication identifier to the point of transaction receipt transmission device through an integrated connection.

4. An apparatus comprising:

a point of transaction payment device that processes a payment for a transaction at a point of transaction; and

a transmitter in operable communication with the point of transaction payment device that automatically receives an e-mail address from a paperless receipt device in proximity to the point of transaction payment device without a manual entry of the e-mail address at the point of transaction and transmits an electronic receipt corresponding to the payment for the transaction to the e-mail address, the e-mail address being stored on the paperless receipt device prior to the transaction.