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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJonathan H. Connell, II, Myron D. Flickner, Norman Haas, Arun Hampapur, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti
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Under the present invention, a single, overall alarm for an entire set of shopping items will be used for any and all discrepancies. The metric used for creating an alarm for the overall set of shopping items can be based on any one of the following candidate policies: if at least one item generated an alarm; if some fixed number of items generated an alarm; if some threshold discrepancy metric got exceed; if basket size is larger than certain threshold cash value and the alarm exceeded certain threshold alarm rate; a randomly generated alarm (e.g., random audit); the customer's identity and track record (e.g., loyalty card); and/or any combination of the above. Regardless, if an overall alarm is generated one or more of the following actions can be taken: no action send the customer to customer service; appropriately record customer track record (e.g., loyalty card) when customer identity is available; audit the customer at the “shop exit; and/or any combination of thereof.
A method for securing shopping checkout, comprising:
A system for securing shopping checkout, comprising:
A computer program product loaded into the internal memory of a computer for securing shopping checkout, the computer readable program code configured to:
A method for deploying an application for securing shopping checkout, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.