Protection of items within stores

Details Protection of items within stores Protection of items within stores

2004-07-01

2008-05-20

Lee, Michael G. (Department: 2876)

Registers

Systems controlled by data bearing records

Mechanized store

C235S385000, C705S005000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07374086

ABSTRACT:
Methods, systems, and computer programs are described for detecting items within stores that are not intended for sale, so as to prevent a sale or re-sale of those items. The items are marked with identifiers, such as smart tags. Each of the items may be registered as being sold, perhaps within a data record associated with the item and the identifier, when the items are sold. As a result, the data record may later be checked, prior to a potential re-selling of the item, in order to prevent maliciously manipulated items from being sold or re-sold. Similarly, if there is no correspondence between an item's detected identifier, if any, and one of the data records, then the item may be prevented from being sold or re-sold. An alarm signal may be provided if such a prevented sale is detected.

REFERENCES:
patent: 6747560 (2004-06-01), Stevens, III
patent: 2002/0040927 (2002-04-01), Davis
patent: 2003/0004761 (2003-01-01), Lampe et al.
patent: 2004/0000997 (2004-01-01), Stevens
patent: 2006/0169776 (2006-08-01), Hornbaker et al.
International Search Report for corresponding European Application EP04015535 mailed Nov. 4, 2004.

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