Method and system for presenting item information using a portable data terminal
AssigneeSymbol Technologies, Inc.
InventorsWilliam X. Tracy, Thomas K. Roslak, Judith Murrah, Francis Riso, Robert Beach, Robert Sandler, John Klein
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an improved portable shopping system. The system is provided with improved data presentation system for presenting customer desired data on a portable terminal. The portable terminal includes audio as well as video presentation means which are used to provide customer specific marketing files to promote the sale of identified items.
Claims16
A system for presenting an item of information to a customer corresponding to a selected product having an associated machine coded label, said system comprising:
- a product information file including the item of information corresponding to the selected product:
- a portable terminal having an integrated machine code reader for reading the machine coded label, a display and a wireless radio:
- a product information discriminator for selecting the item of information from the product information file corresponding to the selected product and delivering the item of information to the display of the portable terminal upon the reading of the machine coded label on the selected item with the machine code reader on the portable terminal, whereby the reading of the machine coded label on the selected item with the machine code reader on the portable terminal results in the presentation of the item of information to the customer using the portable data terminal;
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- a deactivation controller for deactivating the product information discriminator from delivering the item of information to the display of the portable terminal.
A portable terminal for use in a self-checkout system having a product information distribution system for transmitting a plurality of in-aisle marketing messages to a portable terminal for presentation on said portable terminal in response to a reading of a machine coded label corresponding to a customer desired product, wherein said portable terminal is provided with a marketing message deactivation command for deactivating the presentation of marketing messages on the portable terminal.
A self-checkout system having a product information distribution system for transmitting a plurality of in-aisle messages to a selected portable terminal having a bar code reader upon entry on said bar code reader of the terminal of a predetermined product associated with each of said plurality of messages, said system comprising a marketing message controller for recording the identification of messages delivered to the selected portable terminal and a message transmission count indicating the number of times the message was transmitted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.