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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2017
Ecr Software Corporation, Boone, NC (US);
Peter Terry Catoe, Blowing Rock, NC (US);
Mark Noble, Banner Elk, NC (US);
John L. White, Pickens, NC (US);
Burt Aycock, Vilas, NC (US);
Claire McRoberts, Boone, NC (US);
ECR Software Corporation, Boone, NC (US);
Abstract
A checkout system includes a checkout station having a housing, a customer interface and a customer unloading station. A point-of-sale system has a microprocessor and memory operatively associated with one another to identify products being purchased, payments tendered therefor and to store transaction information locally at the checkout station or remotely from the checkout station. The microprocessor has programming configured to allow an item to be scanned by a product identification scanner, and an attendant command module.