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US 6,595,342 B1Granted
Method and apparatus for a biometrically-secured self-service kiosk system for guaranteed product delivery and return
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorsL. Michael Maritzen, Harold Aaron Ludtke
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Abstract
An apparatus including a secure kiosk capable of containing products and a consumer access device to unlock and retrieve a product from the kiosk is disclosed.
Claims16
An apparatus comprising:
- a secure kiosk to receive a product and data associating a product identifier with a consumer access device identifier from a product provider who is unaware of an identity of a consumer of the product;
- and
- a consumer access device to send information identifying the consumer access device to the secure kiosk, wherein the secure kiosk is to release the product if the information sent by the consumer access device is in conformity with the data received from the product provider.
A method comprising:
- receiving a product and data associating a product identifier with a consumer access device identifier from a product provider who is unaware of an identity of a consumer of the product;
- receiving information identifying a consumer access device from the consumer access device;
- and
- releasing the product from a secure kiosk if the information received from the consumer access device is in conformity with the data received from the product provider.
1 more element
A computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed on a processor, perform a method comprising:
- receiving a product and data associating a product identifier with a consumer access device identifier from a product provider who is unaware of an identity of a consumer of the product;
- receiving information identifying the consumer access device from a consumer access device;
- and
- releasing the product from a secure kiosk if the information received from the consumer access device is in conformity with the data received from the product provider.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.