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US 2010/0145507 A1Published application
Automated business system and method of vending and returning a consumer product
OwnerDonald Blust, Thomas Driscollinventors
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Abstract
System and method of dispensing disc-based media and other consumer products. A user can interact with an automated business system to select disc-based media for rental and/or purchase. The automated business system can retrieve the selection from the interior of the automated business system and dispense the selection through a port to the user. The automated business system can retrieve the selection from the port in a return process.
Claims12
A controller for a disc-based media system, the controller comprising:
- a server located in the disc-based media system;
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- a point of sale software (POS) application residing on the server, the POS application operable to manage transactions between a user and the server and transmit commands to a retrieval system to locate a requested disc-based media stored within the disc-based media system, the POS application also initiating and obtaining authorization or authentication of payment before delivering the requested disc-based media.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.