Security tag deactivation system
AssigneeATS Money Systems Inc.
InventorsKenneth Andersen, Gerard F. Murphy, Vance Daddi
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Abstract
A method for tracking deactivation of security devices being associated with items to be sold, each of the items being associated with a tracking identifier. The method includes determining a number of security tag deactivations which should occur using select ones of the identifiers and determining a number of actual security tag deactivations which occurred. The method then compares the number of actual security tag deactivations to the number of security tag deactivations which should have occurred, and generates an output when the comparing results in an inconsistency therebetween.
Claims6
A system for tracking deactivation of security devices being associated with items to be sold, said system comprising:
- an item logging device for entering identification data for each of said items to be sold;
- a deactivation device for deactivating said security devices;
- and,
- database means for storing data indicative of which of a plurality of items should or should not include at least one of said security devices to be deactivated by said deactivation device;
- wherein said deactivation device is selectively operable automatically in response to operation of said item logging device and said stored data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.