Patent ID: 7676396

Claim:
A method of processing a purchase transaction on a retail terminal, comprising the steps of: acquiring purchase transaction data including item identification information of purchased items and payment information for paying for the items by a processor of a retail terminal of a merchant as a result of a purchase transaction being performed on the retail terminal, wherein the processor communicates with a number of peripherals coupled to the processor via corresponding communication lines including a display, an input device, a printer, a barcode reader, and a card reader; formatting the acquired purchase transaction data into a digital receipt by the processor; receiving input from a person at the retail terminal that selectively identifies purchase transaction datum for omission from the digital receipt by the processor; selectively omitting the identified purchase transaction datum from the digital receipt to generate a personalized digital receipt by the processor; forwarding the personalized digital receipt by the processor over a network that is in communication with the processor to a personal computer operated by the person who identified the purchase transaction datum for omission from the digital receipt; and transmitting the digital receipt over the network to a storage location for the merchant by the processor.