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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2009
Applicants:
Steven J. Greenfield, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Darren Moss, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Steven J. Greenfield, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Darren Moss, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
Catalina Marketing Corporation, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
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.