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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2000
Joseph A. Giordano, Centreville, VA (US);
Tory N. Travis, Kansas City, MO (US);
Louis C. Garbarino, Oakton, VA (US);
Joseph A. Giordano, Centreville, VA (US);
Tory N. Travis, Kansas City, MO (US);
Louis C. Garbarino, Oakton, VA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A network for processing retail sales transactions includes a customer transceiver with a unique customer number, a reader receiving the customer number and sending it to a point-of-sale device where it is combined with transaction information to form a transaction entry. The transaction entry is sent through a merchant computer to a transaction processing system having a customer database. The transaction processing system references an entry in the customer database corresponding to the customer/transmitter ID number and routes the transaction entry to a payment processing system specified in the customer database entry.