Patent ID: 8386343

Claim:
A user device for managing electronic receipts, comprising: a processor configured to execute control logic configured to manage data representing at least one electronic receipt; a communications module operatively coupled to the processor to electronically interface with a portable device of a user, wherein the portable device supplies the communications module with data representing the at least one electronic receipt of the user regarding a prior transaction, which originated the at least one electronic receipt, between the portable device and a POS device; a display interface operatively coupled to the processor and configured by the processor to display to the user data representing the at least one electronic receipt while the portable device is interfacing with the communications module; and a storage component operatively coupled to the processor and configured by the processor to store at least a portion of the data representing the at least one electronic receipt, wherein the at least one electronic receipt comprises accounting information and administrative information, the administrative information comprising access and management conditions that are controlled by a service provider in control of the POS device, wherein the communications module is further configured by the processor to retrieve information from the portable device in order to display viewable information of the at least one electronic receipt to the user on the display interface while the portable device is interfacing with the communications module, and wherein the access and management conditions of the at least one electronic receipt allow the processor to copy the accounting information to the storage component and prevent the processor from copying the access and management conditions of the electronic receipt to the storage component, wherein the access and management conditions of the at least one electronic receipt only allow the processor of the computing system to copy only a portion of the at least one electronic receipt, said portion including at least the accounting information.