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7026913 |
Methods and apparatus for self-diagnosing electronic price labels
A self-diagnosing electronic price label. The label communicates with a central processor in order to receive price information for display and to report the status of the label to the central...
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7021536 |
Retail consumer information methods and retail consumer information system
A customer e-label apparatus and method includes an electronic tag for storing information electronically. A device for writing information on the electronic tag at the point of sale of an item to...
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7017803 |
Point-of-sale terminal
A POS terminal according to the present invention includes an LCD screen that displays information and tilts freely to a desirable position, a printer that prints the information on a paper, a...
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7016862 |
Method for enhancing security and providing assistance in the operation of a self-service checkout terminal
A method of providing security during operation of a self-service checkout terminal includes the step of creating a transaction table which includes a plurality of records corresponding...
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7014120 |
Smart documents
The invention relates to Smart Documents to be used in various administrative, financial and other applications, in particular bank cheques and other paper value documents that require...
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7014116 |
Price verification method, device and program product
The price verification device typically includes a barcode scanner, an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) reader and an optional key pad. To verify a price for an item, a user such as a consumer...
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7006979 |
Methods and systems for creating models for marketing campaigns
Methods and systems for increasing efficiency of a marketing campaign are disclosed. The method uses a system including a database containing customer demographic data and includes the steps of...
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7005962 |
Price label communication system
Price label system comprising a price label system server connected to transceivers adapted to communicate price label information to price labels using a communication protocol. A predetermined...
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7005988 |
Using radio frequency identification to detect and/or prevent theft and shoplifting
Techniques are disclosed for detecting shoplifting or theft, particularly in a retail environment, using radio-frequency identification (“RFID”). Preferred embodiments leverage RFID tags on...
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7000833 |
Article data reading apparatus
An article data reading apparatus having a first display 4 receiving operational entry from a customer or store clerk as an operator of the apparatus permits setting of operation mode to customer...
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6997382 |
Auto teller shopping cart
The object of this invention is to provide an electronic shopping cart which enables customers scan the products, view the totals and complete the transaction by means of self check-out. This...
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6991157 |
System and method for re-associating an account number to another transaction account
A method and system for converting a first transaction account device to a second transaction account device wherein a card number associated with, or defined as, a first transaction account (e.g.,...
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6991159 |
Point of sale terminal including a socket for receiving a mobile device
A point of sale terminal including point of sale transaction circuitry, and a socket for selectably receiving and supporting a mobile computing/communicating device and for permitting communication...
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6990463 |
Self-checkout system
A self-checkout system, particularly for retail areas of constrained floor space, has a small to zero footprint while being fully functional. In one form, the self-checkout comprises a unit...
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6988658 |
System and method for facilitating a transaction between a merchant and a consumer
A system for facilitating a transaction between a merchant and a consumer includes a consumer interface and a settlement administrator. The consumer interface is configured to emit a consumer...
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6986462 |
Automated parts labeling system
A system for marking parts including an automated parts labeling (APL) software module for producing information labels for marking parts, a processor for executing the APL software module, and at...
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6986463 |
Method and system of broadcasting item location
A system and method for locating items includes broadcasting the descriptions of multiple product and their locations to remote devices. Preferably, the remote device compares the broadcasted...
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6982388 |
Food product scale with customer voice prompting and related methods
A food product scale system includes a customer detecting functionality and a voice functionality for outputting one or more audible voice messages when a customer is detected. When a customer is...
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6983261 |
System and method for causing multiple parties to be paid from a single credit card transaction
A point of sale credit card payment system allowing multiple payments to be made to various payees from a single credit card transaction or any other form of electronic payment. Software, firmware,...
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6978930 |
Optical bar code scanner and system for retrieving bar code data
A shopping system for scanning codes related to products, such as consumer goods and services, and for retrieving data associated with the codes includes a portable, hand-held and battery-operated...
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6975205 |
Cart return credit system
A system and method for providing an incentive to a customer of a store to return a shopping cart to a cart return location. The system generates a cart return signal. The system determines whether...
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6974077 |
Method of remote picking-up of soiled laundry and delivering clean laundry with on-site yet remote weighing
A method of pick-up of soiled laundry and dry cleaning and re-delivery of the same after washing and dry-cleaning at a remote servicing site. The method includes providing a pick-up and delivery...
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6974076 |
Portable music player with pay per play usage and method for purchase of credits for usage
A portable content playback device that includes the ability to accept a media with electronic playback credits, i.e. a smart card, that is pre-loaded with credits. Alternatively, the device may...
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6974078 |
Personal communication device with bar code reader for obtaining product information from multiple databases
A communication system including a personal communication device that allows a user to communicate over the Internet with a network of multiple remote databases and to search the databases for...
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6971574 |
Method of accurately verifying election results without the need for a recount
Hash numbers are assigned to each individual ballot choice made by a particular voter and a hash total, establishing the voter's set of ballot choices, is recorded and a printed receipt is issued...
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6968998 |
System and method for ensuring payment for sold or leased equipment
A limited electronic system and method are provided for automatically shutting down equipment when an account associated with purchased or leased equipment falls into arrears. The system includes a...
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6970812 |
Virtual-space providing apparatus, virtual-space providing system, and virtual-space providing method
Disclosed is a virtual-space providing apparatus, which is connected to a user terminal via a network, and which provides the user terminal with various kinds of services through a...
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6966491 |
System and method for detecting the passage of a person or an object through an entry-exit of delimited space
There are described a system and a method of detecting the passage of persons or objects through an entry-exit ( 4 ) of a delimited space ( 2 ). The direction of passage is detected on the basis of...
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6964371 |
Electronic display
An electronic display comprises a transversally U-shaped fixing beam with a two-wired conducting strip installed therein. Two terminal-fixing bases to fix the two-wired conducting strip and...
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6959873 |
Electronic cash system for an electronic wallet
Electronic purse payment system in the form of a smart card in which payment of a purchase in a shop is performed by a payment terminal ( 20 ), by deducting the purchase amount from the amount in...
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6959862 |
Inventory control and identification method
An inventory control and identification apparatus uses a storage space with a plurality of inventory items. Identification labels are positioned in physical correspondence with the inventory items....
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6959283 |
Automated cafeteria
An automated cafeteria. Customers place orders via computers, over the Internet. Their orders are prepared by the cafeteria, and placed into a delivery bay. Each customer retrieves his own order...
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6957770 |
System and method for biometric authorization for check cashing
A system for authorizing a check cashing transaction between a consumer and a merchant using identity verification based on biometric information. A system comprises a central biometric information...
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6945458 |
Data collection and maintenance database method and apparatus
An apparatus and method for use in a networked postal computing environment for centralizing collected data and generating post processing reports to facilitate near real-time access of selected...
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6943678 |
Thermoformed apparatus having a communications device
An apparatus has a communications device associated therewith. In another aspect of the present invention, a pallet is made from thermoformed polymeric sheets with an attached communications...
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6942145 |
Checkout device with enhanced security label detection
A checkout device with a barcode reader and electronic article surveillance (EAS) system. The checkout device includes a barcode reader having substantially horizontal and vertical apertures for...
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6940393 |
System and method for improved queuing, service-time, and capacity in drive-through operations
A system and method of queuing orders locates data-entry modules relative to a pickup location such that a customer who places an order after a customer who placed an earlier order can be signaled...
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6938821 |
Method and apparatus for associating identification and personal data for multiple magnetic stripe cards or other sources
A method and apparatus for warehousing information in a wallet consolidator, including personal identification data for facilitating a transaction. The wallet consolidator includes a controller for...
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6932268 |
Dual mode credit card based payment technique
A technique for directing a credit card based payment to a payee for a payor having a credit card issued by a credit card issuer is provided. A request for a payment service provider to make a...
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6930601 |
Digital data exchange system
A system for exchanging digital data between a plurality of users comprises a first computer installation ( 12 ) in which said digital data is stored together with at least one determined identity...
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6926200 |
Electronic cashless system
An electronic cashless system uses a cashless medium for memorizing amount information and for performing an operation of amount information. The electronic cashless system comprises an automatic...
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6918537 |
System and method for managing stored-value card data
A computerized system and method for managing stored-value card data over a communications network between a plurality of terminals and a central processor is provided. Each of the terminals is...
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6913192 |
ATM cassette with currency overload prevention
An ATM currency cassette with a currency overload prevention arrangement. The cassette includes a currency stack push plate having a flexible arm. The arm becomes flexed by currency pressing...
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6910697 |
Shopping cart that enables self-checkout
Apparatus that assist a shopper during his visit to a merchant store. In one embodiment in the form of a shopping cart, the invention enables a shopper to check himself out of the merchant store....
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6908033 |
Hand-held programmer for programmable liquid crystal display
A method of writing an electrically writable tag using a hand-held writing device includes the steps of providing an electrically writable tag having a plurality of electrical conductors located on...
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6907409 |
Method and arrangement for determining a weight with a dynamic scale
A dynamic scale has a conveyor, a weighing pan, a weighing cell, sensors and an electronic control unit that, in addition to controlling the conveyor means ( 4 ), implements an evaluation of a...
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6902115 |
Display device for a portable data carrier
The invention relates to a portable data carrier having a display device. This data carrier contains a microprocessor and storage devices associated with the microprocessor as well as means for...
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6899621 |
System and method for selling lottery game tickets
A system and method of selling pre-printed lottery game tickets, on-line lottery game tickets, or a combination of pre-printed and on-line lottery game tickets in a retail store is disclosed. At...
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6899268 |
Electronic locker system
An electronic locker system which is provided with: a locker for housing luggage; a reading means for electrically reading a depositor identifier that has been preliminarily determined by a...
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6897763 |
Retail signage management system
A mobile retail signage management system includes a communication device capable of transmitting a specific location for which a corresponding sign needs to be positioned at the specific location;...
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