Patent ID: 8510163
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for checkout processing in a retail establishment comprising: a mobile device of a first user transmitting to a server a checkout request message; the mobile device receiving from the server a queuing message comprising information indicative of a position in a checkout queue; conducting a queue transaction process between the first customer and one or more transactors, including the server identifying the one or more transactors who match an offered position in the checkout queue and an offered compensation amount and sending the offered position and offered compensation amount to the one or more transactors, the offered position being a position desired by the first customer, the offered compensation amount being an amount that the first customer is willing to exchange the offered position with a transactor; and concluding the queue transaction process with one of the one or more transactors, including the server exchanging respective queue positions of the first customer and said one of the one or more transactors and transmitting new queue positions to the first customer and to said one of the one or more transactors.