Check transaction processing, database building and marketing method and system utilizing automatic check reading

TL;DR: In this article, a system and method for delivering purchasing incentives and a variety of other retail shopping aids through a computer network, such as by E-mail over the Internet or the World Wide Web, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a portable data terminal for communicating information over a communication network is described, with aspects that may be used within a shopping establishment or at a user's home, either in a shopping center or at home.

TL;DR: A tokenless identification system and method are principally based on a correlative comparison of a unique biometric sample, such as a finger print or voice recording, gathered directly from the person of an unknown user, with an authenticated biometrics sample of the same type obtained and stored previously.

TL;DR: In this paper, an improved portable shopping system is provided with improved data presentation system for presenting customer desired data on a portable terminal, which includes audio as well as video presentation means which are used to provide customer specific marketing files to promote the sale of identified items.

TL;DR: In this paper, check reading techniques are used to detect a customer's checking account number on a check, regardless of the bank, bank branch or type of account, and the customer identification code is automatically used to provide check verification as well as to provide various targeted marketing techniques based upon the customer's prior transactional history with the store.

TL;DR: In this article, a centralized system of accumulating cash value for consumers based upon point-of-sale transactions with multiple merchants is disclosed wherein for each transaction, the consumer's account number (such as the Social Security number) which may be different from the consumers' credit card account number, for example, is transmitted to a central system along with data identifying the merchant and a credit value for the transaction.

TL;DR: In this article, a system and method for retail store marketing is described, where a memory stores a database of existing customers of the retail store, including a unique customer identification code for each customer.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach for creating a discount coupon in response to the purchase of a product other than the one to which the coupon applies, by examining a record pertaining to each item purchased to determine whether the item is intended to trigger the creation of a coupon.