Efficient Encoding and Transmission of Digital Receipts for mobile Commerce
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2013-06-10
Author(s)
Abstract
Making receipts digital creates a new dialog between customers, retailers, and brands, allowing them to discuss products and purchases in real-time. However, the transmission of digital receipts is still a problem, since often Internet connectivity is not available at the point of sale which hampers a real-time interaction. To overcome this problem with current technology, this paper presents a way to efficiently transmit a complete receipt in a QR-code, a certain kind of 2D matrix code (often also called "2D barcode"). Thereby, only a smartphone equipped with a camera is needed and Internet connectivity is not a problem anymore. However, due to size constraints, the encoding of a full receipt needs to be as efficient as possible. We present a custom, domain-specific encoding that was developed exactly for this purpose and show that our prototype implementation performs better than sophisticated, general purpose compression algorithms on this kind of data.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Start page
12
Event Title
12th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB)
Event Location
Berlin
Event Date
10.-13.06.2013
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
224284
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