Patent ID: 7780081

Claim:
A system for security protection, inventory tracking and shopping cart checkout, the system comprising: means for identifying a customer entering a vendor retail premises and issuing a unique ID tagging wireless device to a customer's shopping cart; means for uniquely identifying a product at the vendor retail premises with a unique serial identification (USID) indicium on a packaging of the product, where the indicium is configured for optical UPC/USID recognition, and an assigned weight of the product; means for registering the product that has been taken from its storage or display location using a sensor indicating the assigned weight has been removed and a digital picture of the product captured in a vicinity of the product's storage or display location where the USID is recognized along with a UPC code, and further activating an alarm at the product's storage or display location; means for registering that the product has been put into the customer's shopping cart where a measured weight of the product is detected in the customer's shopping cart; means for automatically transacting a purchase of the product while the customer's shopping cart remains in the vicinity of the product's storage or display location and the product remains in the customer's cart as determined by the detected measured weight; means for paying for the product in the vicinity of the product's storage or display location and deactivating the alarm; means for notifying the customer exiting the vicinity of the product's storage or display location to pay if the product has not been properly or timely paid for in the vicinity of the product's storage or display location; means for concluding the purchase transaction using the assigned weight, the measured weight, a total product measured weight and verification of payment; and means for verifying the customer as exiting the vendor retail premises.