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Systems and methods for customer deactivation of security elements

  • US 9,552,710 B2
  • Filed: 07/16/2014
  • Issued: 01/24/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for activating an Electronic Article Surveillance (“

  • EAS”

    ) element deactivator configured to deactivate an EAS element, comprising;

    obtaining, by an EAS element deactivation system, customer-related data from a customer of a business organization who is attempting to deactivate an EAS element of at least one item;

    obtaining, by an EAS element deactivation system, transaction data directly from a receipt previously issued upon completion of a checkout transaction for the customer;

    communicating the customer-related data, the transaction data and a unique identifier for the EAS element deactivation system from the EAS element deactivation system to a remote computing device;

    processing, by the remote computing device, the customer-related data and the transaction data to obtain confirmation that the customer has recently successfully completed the checkout transaction for the item and the EAS element of the item has not yet been deactivated; and

    activating the EAS element deactivator of the EAS element deactivation system subsequent to when the confirmation is obtained.

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