Patent ID: 11861583
Assignee: ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for detecting a potential scan avoidance during a decode session using a symbology reader having a field-of-view (FOV), the symbology reader configured to (i) transmit payloads associated with transaction affecting barcodes to a point-of-sale (POS) system and (ii) not transmit payloads associated with non-transaction affecting barcodes to the POS system, the transaction affecting barcodes and the non-transaction affecting barcodes being different types of barcodes, the method comprising:
during the decode session at one or more processors of the symbology reader, attempting to identify a non-transaction affecting barcode within the FOV of the symbology reader;
during the decode session at the one or more processors of the symbology reader, attempting to decode a transaction affecting barcode within the FOV of the symbology reader; and
responsive to identifying the non-transaction affecting barcode within the FOV of the symbology reader and further responsive to not decoding the transaction affecting barcode within the FOV of the symbology reader, determining that the potential scan avoidance attempt has occurred and generating a scan avoidance alarm signal associated with the potential scan avoidance attempt.