APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING AND SECURING ACCESS TO TRANSACTIONS IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT

• US 20140222630A1
• Filed: 02/07/2014
• Published: 08/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SecureCheck LLC
• Original Assignee: SecureCheck LLC
• Inventors: McCauley, Edward, Donofrio, Tony
• Application Number:
  US14/175,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20140222630A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10821 further details of bar or optical code scanning devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3226 Use of secure elements separate from M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/325 using wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3274 using a pictured code, e.g. barcode or QR-code, being displayed on the M-device
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 Biometric identity checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4016 involving fraud or risk level assessment in transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2220/00 Business processing using cryptography postage metering system using cryptography G06Q2250/05
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 3/003 Anti-theft control theft alarms G08B13/00

Abstract

An apparatus, system and method of facilitating a retail transaction. The apparatus, system and method may include obtaining, via an opt-in to an in-store wireless network, of consumer device data regarding a plurality of consumer mobile devices, the consumer data comprising device use data, prior purchase data, and geo-location data; receiving video surveillance data related to at least one consumer having the consumer device data; interrelating, from at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing at least the consumer device data and the video surveillance data, of at least the consumer device data and the video surveillance data by at least one computing processor; and unlocking, at a direction of the computing processor and pursuant to a plurality of business rules to the interrelated datas, at least one in-store protection proximate to a location indicated by the geo-location data to allow a prospective purchasing one of the consumers to access at least one previously locked in-store item.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating a retail transaction, comprising:

obtaining, via an opt-in to an in-store wireless network, of consumer device data regarding a plurality of consumer mobile devices, the consumer data comprising device use data, prior purchase data, and geo-location data;

receiving video surveillance data related to at least one consumer having the consumer device data;

interrelating, from at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing at least the consumer device data and the video surveillance data, of at least the consumer device data and the video surveillance data by at least one computing processor; and

unlocking, at a direction of the computing processor and pursuant to a plurality of business rules to the interrelated datas, at least one in-store protection proximate to a location indicated by the geo-location data to allow a prospective purchasing one of the consumers to access at least one previously locked in-store item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving video surveillance data is triggered by an indication received from the consumer device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the consumer data comprise exception based reporting.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the geo-location data comprises an indication received from the consumer device.