Patent ID: 8949145
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A transaction processing method, comprising: generating an order confirmation code; in response to a customer purchasing a product in a retail store, i) associating the order confirmation code with the purchased product and ii) providing to the customer a document comprising the order confirmation code; a fulfillment system storing in a database the order confirmation code and a product identifier identifying the product such that the order confirmation code can be used to retrieve from the database a record comprising the product identifier; after providing the document to the customer, receiving at a fulfillment system connected to a network a message transmitted by a communication device connected to the network, the message comprising the order confirmation code; in response to receiving the message comprising the order confirmation code, extracting the order confirmation code from the message and using the order confirmation code to retrieve from the database the product identifier; after retrieving the product identifier from the database, using the retrieved product identifier to retrieve from a storage unit data associated with the product identifier; and after retrieving the data associated with the product identifier, transmitting via the network to the communication device the retrieved data, wherein the communication device is operable to receive the transmitted data and is configured to store in a storage unit within the communication device the received data.