Patent ID: 11900349
Assignee: BIZERBA SE & CO. KG
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A method for operating a sales device for goods, the method comprising:
detecting, using a shelf with automatic removal monitoring, a removed item and determining item data of the removed item;
reading out a customer identification number of a customer in a vicinity of the shelf from which the removed item has been removed;
receiving, by a controller, the item data of the removed item and the customer identification number;
adding, with the controller, the item data of the removed item and the customer identification number to a list of items intended for payment; and
detecting, with a detector, items for which a payment transaction is to be executed, the detector comprising at least one sensor and an evaluator and for detecting articles, at least the data of the sensor and the list of items intended for payment are being made available to the evaluator as input variables,
wherein the reading out of the customer identification number comprises:
detecting, with a proximity sensor, a shopping cart or shopping basket, wherein the shopping cart or shopping basket comprises a transmitter which is configured to be read out by the proximity sensor,
wherein a plurality of customer identification numbers is transmitted from the shelf and received by the controller upon the proximity sensor detecting a plurality of shopping carts, shopping baskets, or product scanners, and the controller stores at least two of the customer identification numbers with the item data of the removed item in the list of items intended for payment, and
wherein the proximity sensor detects the distance of each of the shopping carts, each of the shopping baskets or each of the product scanners to the proximity sensor and, upon the the customer identification number being associated with the item, the distance to the transmitter of the respective customer identification number is stored in the list of items intended for payment.