Patent ID: 8095236
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A system for dispensing and receiving media discs comprising, in combination: a storage system for storing a plurality of the media discs; a dispense/receive system for dispensing the media discs to consumers and receiving media discs from customers; a disc identification system for indentifying the media discs; a disc transfer system for moving the media discs between the dispense/receive system and the disc identification system; a control system operably connected to the dispense/receive system to selectively intake media discs and operably connected to the disc transfer system to selectively activate the disc transfer system to move the media discs between the dispense/receive system and the disc identification system; a user interface system operably connected to the control system and including a buy-back indicator which can be selectively activated by the customer; and wherein, in response to activation of the buy-back indicator, the controller is adapted to activate the dispense/receive system to receive a media disc for buy-back, to activate the disc transfer system to move the media disc for buy-back from the dispense/receive system to the disc identification system, to activate the disc identification system to identify the media disc for buy-back, to determine a buy-back price for the media disc for buy-back, to activate the user interface system to inform the customer of the buy-back price and to provide the customer with an accept/decline input corresponding with the buy-back price, and to provide a credit to the customer upon activation of the accept/decline by the customer to accept the buy-back price.