Paperless receipt device

• US 9,569,800 B2
• Filed: 09/04/2015
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• 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:
  US14/846,599
• Publication Number:
  US 20150379645A1
• Time in Patent Office: 529 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 point of transaction system, situated at a point of transaction, that processes a transaction;

a scanner, situated at the point of transaction and in operable communication with the point of transaction system, that scans a representation of a communication identifier corresponding to a user from a computing device without a manual entry of the communication identifier at the point of transaction system, the communication identifier being stored at the computing device prior to the transaction, the communication identifier being stored by the point of transaction system after being scanned by the scanner; and

a transmission device, in operable communication with the point of transaction system, that sends an electronic receipt of the transaction to a server associated with the communication identifier.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a smartphone.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the computing device is a tablet device.

4. A computing device comprising:

a storage device that stores a communication identifier corresponding to a user;

a display device; and

a processor that retrieves the communication identifier to render a representation of the communication identifier on the display device so that a scanner scans the representation of the communication identifier without a manual entry of the communication identifier at a point of transaction system, the scanner being in operable communication with the point of transaction system, the point of transaction system sending an electronic receipt of a transaction performed by the point of transaction system to a server associated with the communication identifier.