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US 2006/0219780 A1Published application
Consumer interactive shopping system
AssigneeSymbol Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJerome Swartz, Thomas Roslak, Mauro Premutico, Adam Petrovich, Edward Barkan
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Abstract
The present invention relates generally to a consumer interactive shopping and marketing system. The system includes a portable data terminal for communicating information over a communication network. The present system has aspects that may be used within a shopping establishment or at a user's home.
Claims20
A computer implemented theft prevention system, comprising:
- a security component that determines a probability of obtaining an accurate net weight of a group of items from a customer;
- and
- a messaging component that automatically notifies store personnel to weigh the group of items if the probability exceeds a pre-defined threshold.
A computer implemented theft-prevention method, comprising:
- directing a customer to proceed to a weighing station based at least in part upon prior shopping history and suspicious activity;
- determining a probability that the customer properly scanned product information into a portable computer terminal;
- and
- notifying store personnel if the probability exceeds a pre-determined threshold.
1 more element
A computer-implemented theft prevention system, comprising:
- means for determining a probability that a customer possesses items that have not been scanned by the customer via a portable bar code reader;
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- means for alerting store personnel if the probability exceeds a threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.