Self-service checkout system utilizing portable self-checkout communications terminal

US5923735A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Symbol Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Jerome Swartz · Oakfield, US
• Ron Goldman · Cold Spring Harbor, US
• Thomas K. Roslak · Northport, US
• Gary Serbin · Freeport, US
• Anthony R. Barkume · Manorville, US
• Miklos Stern · Woodmere, US
• Jay P. White · Bohemia, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 29, 1996
• Grant date: Jul 13, 1999
• Expiry date: May 29, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07G1/14
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system for transferring data between a centrally located site and a portable communications terminal via a telephone network, the site having associated therewith a look up table containing plurality of data records correlating to items disposed at a retail establishment, wherein each of the items has associated therewith a bar code encoded with the indicia unique to each item, with each of the bar coded indicia corresponding to a particular record in the table, the data containing at least a portion of said record.