| 20100145789 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOADING DIGITAL TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS TO A PERSONAL DIGITAL DEVICE - In a system for providing digital transaction documents to a personal digital device for digital barcode redemption at retail, a browser-enabled personal digital device or a hosted personal digital device (“hosted PDD”) may be used. In the latter instance, the host illustratively is a personal computer running any suitable web browser, and the hosted PDD is connected to the host in any suitable manner. The web browser is connected to the Internet in any suitable manner, along with a profile server and a promotions server. The web browser includes a browser-based plug-in object or webdriver, which operates independently within the web browser to load to the personal digital device digital transaction documents pushed directly by the promotions server or indirectly by the profile server via the Internet. The load operations are transparent to the user of the personal digital device. The profile server may have content management tools to enable the user to manage content, or the webdriver may have additional functionality to enable management of content. The personal digital device may be used at a point-of-sale to present any of the digital transaction documents by transmitting a pulsed beam of light to a barcode scanner. | 06-10-2010 |
