Patent Document ID: 8078471
Application ID: 12148362

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus for the processing of sales of articles of a product assortment to a customer, in particular store scales, comprising: a microphone device configured for listening to a conversation between a customer and a sales person for the conversion of connected spoken words of the conversation into an electrical speech signal; a speech recognition device for the generation of a speech recognition result representing the words from the electrical speech signal; a comparator for the comparison of the speech recognition result with keywords stored in a memory device of the apparatus for the keyword recognition in the speech recognition result, with at least some of the stored keywords being product names which define a group of keywords; and a control device which, on the detection, within a preset time window, of a keyword belonging to the group and/or of a permitted combination of keywords which includes a keyword belonging to the group, is configured to output a piece of information associated with the detected keyword or the detected permitted combination and available via a data source or to output an offer to output the information by means of an output device of the apparatus, wherein the preset time window is activated on the recognition of a keyword belonging to a corresponding group of keywords or on the recognition of a permitted combination belonging to a corresponding group of permitted combinations of keywords.

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Claim 8:
8. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the data source comprises a hard disk, a flash component and/or a server.