Patent Application
20220398884
Retail companies lose large quantities of key merchandise because of errors, omissions, fraud, and theft. Lost inventory frustrates consumers, skews stocking processes, and reduces sales. Although some retailers use keeper boxes to store and protect precious items, modem designs can be easily hacked or broken into and therefore increases the probability of theft or robbery situations. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
A system or device to simplify the effort to keep key merchandise safe from theft, that aids in avoiding omissions, lost inventory, errors and fraud. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem either.
There exists a need for a device and a system for Retail Point of Sale Security, that is not being met by any known or disclosed device or system of present.
The main purpose of the Retail Point of Sale Security System is to provide users with an anti-theft keeper box to ensure the product held therein is safe and incapable of being stolen.
The disclosure includes an electronic security box made of a metal and comprising five contiguous sides and defining an open sixth side. The disclosure also includes a metal lid configured to fit the sixth side of the metal box and create an enclosure. The disclosure further includes a base configured to electronically interact with the metal lid and with the metal box via a proximity thereto.
Throughout the description, similar reference numbers may be used to identify similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
The present disclosed Retail Point of Sale Security System ensures that items stored within the electronically locked box are safe at all times and unable to be tampered with. Expanding on the initial design of the average keeper box, the Retail Point of Sale Security System introduces a novel emergency alert system (EAS) that sounds an alarm when unusual activity is detected. With the help of an advanced point of sale (POS) technology, the system is capable of reading and randomly generating various access codes to guarantee hackers are unable to exploit and open the box. To operate the device, the user simply plugs the device into a power cord to activate the functions. When the user wants to open the box and retrieve the item held within, they simply place the Retail Point of Sale Security System near the electronic pad, which managed separately and by authorized users, which identifies the code and automatically opens the lid. The Retail Point of Sale Security System ensures a fully operational, secure, electronic storing compartment at all times and therefore significantly reduces the likelihood of internal theft occurrences.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
