Patent ID: 7819316
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07F,G07G,H04H,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for initiating and completing a commercial transaction with a retail processing system to allow a user to acquire and own an article of commerce having associated therewith a machine resolvable code (MRC), the MRC having encoded therein information relating to the article of commerce, the user having unique identification information associated with the user, comprising the steps of: recognizing the MRC with an input device; storing a representation of at least a portion of the MRC containing at least a representation of the encoded information from the MRC in a temporary buffer; associating with the step of recognizing, the unique identification information associated with the user that allows the retail processing system to uniquely identify the user; and after the step of recognizing and storing the representation of the at least a portion of the MRC in the temporary buffer: transferring to the retail processing system the stored representation of the MRC, and the unique identification information associated with the step of recognizing; and in response to the step of recognizing, the step of transferring to and the retail processing system receiving the representation of the MRC and the transferred unique identification information, transferring ownership of the article of commerce from an entity other than the user to the user to complete the transaction.