Patent ID: 9547966
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G07G,G08B

Claim:
1. A point of sale of a commercial establishment for purchasing an article available for sale including a machine-readable identification tag and a security tag, and wherein a sale transaction for the article can be finalized; wherein the point of sale comprises: a machine-readable identification tag reader device configured for reading the machine-readable identification tag on the article before payment of the article; a payment device configured for paying for the article; a security tag identification code reader device configured for reading an identification code of the security tag on the article after payment of the article; a processing device configured to be connected both to the machine-readable identification tag reader device and to the security tag identification code reader device; an uncoupling device for uncoupling the security tags and configured to be connected to the processing device; the processing device being further configured: to receive a signal corresponding to the read machine-readable identification tag before payment of the article; to retrieve an identification of a security tag associated with the read machine-readable identification tag before payment of the article; to receive a signal corresponding to the identification code of the read security tag on the article alter payment of the article; to perform a verification of a correlation between the identification code of the read security tag after payment of the article and the identification of the security tag retrieved and associated with the read machine-readable identification tag before payment of the article; and to supply, in the event of a positive verification of the correlation between the identification code of the security tag read by the security tag identification code reader device after payment of the article and the identification of the security tag retrieved and associated with the read machine-readable identification tag before payment of the article by the processing device, an activation signal to the uncoupling device for uncoupling the security tag on the article in order to finalize the sale transaction.