Patent ID: 6550672
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G07F,G07G

Abstract:
A method for presenting an item of product information corresponding to a product selected by a customer on a portable terminal within a self-checkout system, said method comprising the steps of:(1) storing the item of product information on a retrievable memory, the retrievable memory being associated with a remotely located host computer; (2) associating one or more user preferences to the customer; (3) providing the customer the portable terminal having a machine code reader for reading a machine coded indicia on the selected product; (4) transmitting from the portable terminal to the host computer information represented by the machine coded indicia; (5) identifying at the host computer the availability of the item of product information corresponding to the selected product on the portable terminal and corresponding to the one or more user preferences; (6) selecting the item of product information for output on the portable terminal; (7) retrieving the item of product information from the retrievable memory; and (8) transmitting from the host computer to the portable terminal the item of product information and outputting said item of product information on a data output device on said portable terminal.