Patent ID: 6543683
Filing Date: 2003-04-08
Classification: G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
A system for allowing a party to a purchase transaction access to a stored digital receipt for the purchase transaction and a retail application relating to the purchase transaction comprising:a retail terminal in communication with an electronic network; a printer associated with said retail terminal and operative to print a network address in a machine readable form; and an addressable storage medium in communication with the electronic network, the addressable storage medium operative to store a digital receipt at a particular storage address corresponding to a particular storage location in said addressable storage medium, and having a plurality of user-operable retail applications relating to the purchase transaction; the retail terminal operative to: (i) produce a digital receipt corresponding to a purchase transaction; (ii) store the produced digital receipt in the addressable storage medium; (iii) obtain a storage address for the stored digital receipt; and (iv) print a network address consisting of the storage address of the digital receipt and an access address for the user-operable retail applications in the machine-readable form.