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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185404 | System and method for tracking currency at a self-checkout station A system and method for tracking currency in a self-checkout station in one embodiment comprises a currency acceptor for collecting cash payment elements and determining the denominations of the collected cash payment elements, a cash dispenser for dispensing cash p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8068600 | Queue management system and method A queue management system and method which uses a computer to manage queue priorities and contact customers. The queue management system includes communication circuitry, and a processor for storing contact information of a customer in a list, for establishing a pos... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8056810 | Methods and apparatus for generating and decoding scan patterns using multiple laser sources Systems and techniques for multiple laser and multiple detector bar code scanning. multiple laser sources generate multiple laser beams directed to a rotating spinner and along optical paths to emerge from a scanner as multiple scan beams. The scan beams trace out a... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8033468 | Apparatus, method and system for an image scanner with differential panning An image scanner apparatus, method and system to scan a bar code or other optical code using an image capture device where the blurring associated with the movement of the bar code pass the image scanner is reduced or eliminated by using differential panning of the ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7996461 | Method of remotely controlling a user interface A method of remotely controlling a user interface which includes peer-peer client/server software modules that allow the user interface on a host computer to be displayed by a remote terminal. The method includes the steps of sending a request to a host application ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7992785 | Mirrored spinner with paired offset facets A mirrored spinner with paired offset facets for scattering a laser beam. The mirrored spinner includes a first number of mirrored facets, including a second number of pairs of offset mirrored facets. ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7931194 | Methods and apparatus for automated document examination for age verification Systems and techniques for automated age verification in self service transaction processing. Upon identification of an age restricted product presented for purchase, presentation of a purchaser identification document is requested. Encoded information is read from ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7743983 | Method and apparatus for locating electronic shelf labels Systems and techniques for locating designated electronic shelf labels. A locator device transmits commands to a designated label, causing a label to take on distinctive characteristics, for example showing a characteristic display. Alternatively or in addition, the... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7734604 | Locking data in a database after an operation has begun A database management system receives a request to perform an operation on a set of target data and, at some point after it begins executing that operation, places a lock on the target data to prevent concurrent execution of other operations on the target data. In s... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7726574 | Method, device and system for scanning optical codes Apparatuses, methods and systems used to reduce the time needed to process images of a bar code or optical code captured by a image bar code scanner. Image bar code scanners read bar codes or optical codes by capturing digital images of the codes using an image capt... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7681795 | Methods and apparatus for a scanner having a top plate assembly with weight measurement capabilities Systems and techniques for a scanner having a top plate with an integrated scale. A scanner base mates with a scanner top plate assembly, with the top plate assembly including an integrated scale. The top plate assembly includes a scan window and a scale mechanism. ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7673797 | Personalization of self-checkout security A method is provided for personalizing security conditions for each customer using a self-service checkout terminal to conduct a transaction on the terminal. A trust level is assigned to each customer based on a selection of factors, which may include personal infor... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7649441 | Method and system for tuning an RFID interrogator A method, apparatus, and system for periodically measuring the level of ambient noise found on a radio frequency channel used by a radio frequency identification interrogator to read radio frequency identification tags. The ambient noise is measured after the radio ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7620568 | Self-checkout system A retail terminal and method of operation thereof. The retail terminal has a weight scale, a bar code scanner, RFID tag antenna, a scan error indicator, means for communicating with a processor and a memory containing a weight learning database (WLDB). The method co... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7617983 | Methods and apparatus for dynamic adjustment of scanner parameters Systems and techniques for improved accuracy of bar code detection and decoding are described. A bar code scanner employs a rotating spinner to reflect a laser beam used to produce one or more scan patterns emerging from scan windows. The spinner has reflective surf... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7611055 | Optical scanner An optical scanner which is configurable to produce a single pattern or a plurality of patterns. The scanner includes an optics engine with first and second laser mounts, first and second detector mounts, a first laser in the first laser mount for producing a first ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7575162 | Self-checkout system and method An improved self-checkout system and method which reduces transaction time. The self-checkout system includes a carrier for carrying a selected product, the carrier being coupled to a weighing apparatus for generating a first signal indicative of the actual weight o... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7559467 | Item checkout apparatus including integrated complimentary antennas An item checkout apparatus with integrated complimentary antennas which concentrates magnetic fields from both antennas in a volume. The item checkout apparatus includes a sensor for sensing a label on an item, a first antenna oriented in a first plane, and a second... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7552874 | Optical scanner An optical scanner includes a scanner housing including a scan window, a laser light source, reflected light detector and a mirrored polygon spinner. The spinner is arranged both to spin around an axis of rotation and to move so as to displace said axis of rotation.... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7549585 | Methods and apparatus for preventing improper scans by a bar code scanner Systems and techniques for prevention of double scans of bar codes by identifying the possibility of ambiguities in position information estimated upon detection of a bar code. A bar code scanner estimates position information for a bar code upon detection of the ba... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548879 | Convenience store effectiveness model (CSEM) Convenience Store Effectiveness Model (CSEM) is a self-contained PC application to quantitatively predict operational and financial impact of changes to Convenience Store (CStore) and Financial Services Center (FSC) operations. CSEM includes Simulation Analysis Modu... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548621 | System and method for securing a base derivation key for use in injection of derived unique key per transaction devices A system that secures a Base Derivation Key (BDK) in a facility for injecting Derived Unique Key Per Transaction (DUKPT) devices uses software for securing the BDK rather than a Tamper Resistant Security Module (TRSM). The system comprises a symmetrical key generato... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7453347 | System for displaying an information package A system for displaying an information package which achieves improved accuracy in the delivery of an advertising campaign. The system includes a remotely readable identification tag for holding an identifier, an interrogator for selectively remotely interrogating t... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7386561 | Partitioned joins of spatial objects in a database system A method and apparatus performs a partitioned joins of spatial objects in a database system. In one example arrangement, each spatial object is represented by z-cells in a z-ordered space. The z-cells of certain spatial objects are either duplicated or redistributed... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7347372 | System and method of notifying an operator of a result of attempting to read a product label A system for notifying an operator of a result of attempting to read a number of product labels on an item which produces only a single good read indication or bad read indication. The system includes a good read indicator, a bad read indicator, and control circuitr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347367 | System and method of verifying item placement on a security scale A system and method of verifying item placement on a security scale. The system includes a computer for receiving incremental weight signals from a security weight scale, wherein some of the incremental weight signals are unrelated to placement of items on the secur... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7264167 | Optical scanner having micro-electro-mechanical systems mirror array and associated method An optical scanner comprises a scanner housing including a scan window, a laser light source, reflected light detector and a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) mirror array arranged to produce a scan line pattern. The light from the laser source is adjustably f... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263536 | System and method for updating an index in a database A method for updating an index in a database includes storing a plurality of changes to be made to a database index in a change table. Each of the changes is associated with an identifier. The method also includes sorting the changes in the change table based on the... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260849 | Providing security in a database system A method and apparatus to provide security for data in a database system includes providing a secure user-defined data type (UDT) that has security features. The secure UDT defines security information, which in one arrangement is in the form of a list of identifier... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7225201 | Extensible data type Methods and apparatus for implementing an extensible data type in a database management system. In one implementation, a database system includes: one or more data storage facilities for use in storing data composing records in tables of a database; one or more proc... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216422 | Method of forming a capacitor assembly in a circuit board A circuit board includes an assembly having first and second power reference plane layers, and an insulator layer between the first and second power reference plane layers. Discrete decoupling capacitors are further provided with the assembly. Additional layers are ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7196906 | Circuit board having segments with different signal speed characteristics A circuit board includes multiple segments, with a first segment having plural signal layers and a second segment having plural signal layers. Signal paths provided by signal layers of the first segment exhibit higher speed signal transmission capability than signal... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7171397 | Method and system for measuring parallelism of a database system execution step A method and computer program are disclosed for measuring the parallelism of an execution step. The method includes determining whether the step operates on rows whose primary index is specified. If the primary index is specified, the parallelism is measured as sing... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7155210 | System and method for short-range wireless retail advertising aimed at short-range wireless protocol-enabled personal devices A system, method and apparatus is presented that provides advertising transmitted from a business to prospective customers that are proximate the business premises via a short-range wireless transmission protocol receivable by personal devices enabled with the short... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7127706 | System and method for controlling software configuration in a convertible self-checkout station A system determines the physical configuration of a convertible checkout station and configures the software to operate the station in correspondence with the determined configuration. The system comprises a physical configuration actuator that responds to a checkou... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7113957 | Row hash match scan join using summary contexts for a partitioned database system A method, computer system, and computer program are claimed for selecting rows from first and second tables each having rows containing values in columns. In at least the first table, the rows are divided into partitions at least one of which is populated by one or ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 6990503 | Rescheduling transactions in a database system A database system includes a transaction rescheduling mechanism that reorders pending transactions based on whether one or more of the pending transactions conflict with any transactions that have been scheduled for execution. In one arrangement, the received pendin... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6952692 | Execution of requests in a parallel database system A database system is able to perform efficient execution of insert-select, join-delete, or join-update requests. The database system has plural access modules to manage access of respective portions of data in a storage of the database system. If certain predefined ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6938044 | Tracking usage of resources of a database system A database system is capable of storing data according to a user-defined data type (UDT). Usage of the user-defined data type is tracked, with an indication of the tracked usage provided to enable calculation of royalty to be paid. Optionally, usage of methods assoc... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6920446 | Representing spatial objects in a defined space A database system is able to represent spatial data with regions in a defined space, such as a z-ordered space. Instead of, or in addition to, a descending decomposition technique (e.g., a top-down decomposition technique) to represent the spatial data with the z-or... | 07/19/2005 |
