Christopher T Ashe

US Patent:

7474330, Jan 6, 2009

Filed:

Dec 19, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/742607

Inventors:

Andrew Wren - Atlanta GA, US
Christopher Ashe - Duluth GA, US
Scott Fairbairn - Alpharetta GA, US
Kenneth Dutch Schultz - Roswell GA, US

Assignee:

Wren Associates, Ltd. - Jefferson City MO

International Classification:

H04N 7/18
H04N 9/47

US Classification:

348150, 700 83, 348 61

Abstract:

A computer-based platform is provided for integrating data from multiple systems including (but not limited to) point of sale (POS) terminals, video systems, electronic article surveillance (EAS) systems, automatic teller machines (ATMs), gas pumps, alarm systems, radio frequency identification (RFID) detection systems, etc. The subject computer-based platform is configured to gather and correlate data (e. g. , transactional data and/or video data), package such data into multiple discrete system “events”, and to provide various features for proactively identifying selected events as “exceptions”. Additional aspects of the computer-based platform may be utilized to provide signaled identification to a user of identified exceptions and other integrated system data. Still further aspects of the platform can be used to group these new events to create larger groupings of multiple transactions, events, data, exceptions, and/or research. This larger grouping can be derived from similar or diverse input systems and can be treated as a new entity that can be acted on independently.

US Patent:

20030197782, Oct 23, 2003

Filed:

Apr 19, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/125587

Inventors:

Christopher Ashe - Duluth GA, US
Scott Fairbairn - Alpharetta GA, US
Andrew Wren - Atlanta GA, US

International Classification:

H04N007/18

US Classification:

348/150000, 348/143000

Abstract:

A method and system for monitoring point of sale exceptions includes the ability to proactively and automatically analyze POS transactional data for certain patterns or occurrences that typically indicate specific behavior at or near a POS terminal in connection with a sales related operation, retrieve time-correlated video segments of a specified length of time from a camera source associated with the POS terminal used to execute aforementioned transaction, and present the video and transaction data together without obstruction on the same user display for contemporaneous review.