Patent ID: 7987120

Claim:
A portable device for storing electronic receipts, comprising: a computing module; a communications module operatively coupled to the computing module, and configured by a processor to communicate with a POS device, wherein the POS device supplies data representing at least one electronic receipt for a first transaction to the communications module; and a memory module operatively coupled to the computing module, and configured by the processor to store the data representing the at least one electronic receipt; wherein the data representing the at least one electronic receipt includes receipt status information, a unique receipt identifier, transaction identifying information, POS device information, and portable electronic device identification information; wherein the data is logically structured, by the processor, in the memory module to allow the POS device to scan, without bypassing an access control condition of the at least one electronic receipt, the unique receipt identifier through the communications module to identify that the at least one electronic receipt can be managed by the POS device; wherein during a second transaction the computing module, as configured by the processor, allows only a particular service provider via the POS device, or another POS device controlled by the particular service provider, to bypass the access control condition after the particular service provider communicates to the communications module that the particular service provider generated the at least one electronic receipt according to a particular receipt management policy, wherein the particular service provider controls the receipt management policy; wherein the computing module as configured by the processor is required by the POS device, or another POS device controlled by the particular service provider, to delete the data representing the at least one electronic receipt to complete the second transaction, after the access control condition is bypassed, and based on a deletion request from the POS device, or another POS device controlled by the particular service provider, to the communications module.