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US 8,275,655 B2Granted
Small store system
AssigneeCatalina Marketing Corporation
InventorsSteven J. Greenfield, Darren Moss
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Abstract
System and methods of use are discloses that default routing of an ID read by an ID reader as part of a purchase transaction in a retail store, to a first computer system (MCS) instead of the POS computer system for the retail store, the first computer system processes the ID, and the POS computer system receives the results of the processing in the form of a IDs recognizable by the POS computer system and for which the POS computer system has associated costs.
Claims18
An MCS for processing purchase transaction data, said MCS comprising:
- an MCS CPU;
- an MCS first input configured to receive an identification read by an ID reader;
- an MCS first output configured to output digital data;
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- an MCS memory configured to store a data structure that comprises a plurality of couponIDs each in association with a corresponding price lookup identification, said data structure including a first couponID in association with a first price lookup identification, wherein said first couponID is different from said first price lookup identification;
- wherein said MCS CPU is configured to:
- transmit digital data that includes the identification to the MCS first output when the identification received by said MCS first input defines a product identification and
- transmit digital data that includes the first product lookup identification to the MCS first output when the identification received by said MCS first input defines said first couponID.
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A method for processing purchase transaction data, comprising:
- receiving, at an MCS first input, an identification read by an ID reader;
- outputting, at an MCS first output, digital data;
- accessing, from an MCS memory, a data structure that comprises a plurality of couponIDs each in association with a corresponding price lookup identification, the data structure including a first couponID in association with a first price lookup identification, wherein the first couponID is different from the first price lookup identification;
- transmitting, by an MCS CPU, digital data that includes the identification to the MCS first output when the identification received by the MCS first input defines a product identification;
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- transmitting, by the MCS CPU, digital data that includes the first product lookup identification to the MCS first output when the identification received by the MCS first input defines the first couponID.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.