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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald L Forsythe, Dacula, GA (US);
Assignee:
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E04H / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
34082535 ; 186 56 ; 36447813 ;
Abstract
A self-service shopping system which uses an electronic price label (EPL) associated with an item to send a signal to a transaction processing system to record the selection of a product by a customer. An item selector card associated with a customer selects items for purchase. An item selector card reader reads the item selector card. The transaction processing system maintains a list of the selected items. The EPL system includes a plurality of EPLs associated with a plurality of items including the selected items. The EPLs communicate item identification information for the selected items to the transaction processing system.