| 5510979 |
Data processing system and method for retail stores |
| Apr-23-1996 |
A computer system for entering, processing and recording sales of items is provided, which is especially suitable for use in retail sales, particularly quick service restaurants. The system includes a... |
| 5500890 |
Point-of-sale system using multi-threaded transactions and interleaved file transfer |
| Mar-19-1996 |
A dial-up asynchronous communication protocol allowing multiple POS terminals to efficiently multi-thread transactions to a host computer and to interleave mail messages and file transfers while retaining... |
| 5497314 |
Automated apparatus and method for object recognition at checkout counters |
| Mar-5-1996 |
An automated check-out system for retail stores, such as supermarkets, employing digitized video signals and other means to determine and differentiate individual products, and thereby register the data... |
| 5490251 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting data over a signalling channel in a digital telecommunications network |
| Feb-6-1996 |
A communication system for exchanging information between a remote terminal and a host terminal over a signalling channel of an ISDN network which does not need to establish communication over voice or... |
| 5490060 |
Passive data collection system for market research data |
| Feb-6-1996 |
A passive data monitor and collection apparatus, and associated method, for obtaining market research data from an automated checkout system of a retail establishment. The apparatus positively monitors... |
| 5466919 |
Credit/charge card system enabling purchasers to contribute to selected charities |
| Nov-14-1995 |
A method which enables a credit cardholder to make a donation to a cardholder-selected charity any time he makes a purchase using the credit card. The method comprises a credit/charge card which identifies... |
| 5396417 |
Product distribution equipment and method |
| Mar-7-1995 |
A data collection device and method, particularly for point-of-sale systems used in the sales and rental of merchandise including video records, and more particularly for a revenue-sharing video record... |
| 5394336 |
Fuel dispenser-cash register control console |
| Feb-28-1995 |
A fuel dispenser-cash register control console is provided for simultaneously controlling fuel dispensers and the input key switches on a cash register keyboard so that sales information on each dispensing... |
| 5313664 |
Point of sale system having backup file device |
| May-17-1994 |
A file control system includes a master terminal and a backup terminal, a plurality of satellite terminals, a master file and a backup file, and a file controller for each file. The master file responds... |
| 5299117 |
Power conserving receiver operation for a remote electronic display system |
| Mar-29-1994 |
An information display system is provided having a transmitter and a plurality of uniquely identified display terminals, each terminal having an IR receiver. Uniquely identified sets of messages are transmitted... |
| 5256863 |
In-store universal control system |
| Oct-26-1993 |
The present invention relates to a system for automating data acquisition and processing at a checkstand point-of-sale in a retail outlet. Preferred embodiments include a first local area network of POS... |
| 5255182 |
Payment card point-of-sale service quality monitoring system, apparatus, and method |
| Oct-19-1993 |
A system for determining the cause of lost, delayed or erroneous responses in a network for authorizing payment card transactions from the point of view of the point-of-sale terminal that forms part of... |
| 5202825 |
Transaction control system including portable data terminal and mobile customer service station |
| Apr-13-1993 |
A mobile customer service station includes a console on a wheeled chassis. The console carries and houses a number of components which are used in merchandising operations to conclude customer purchase... |
| 5189607 |
Method for sending selected data from electronic cash registers to a host unit |
| Feb-23-1993 |
A data transmission device includes a memory for storing a plurality of data consisting of a plurality of sorting areas. The device selectively transmits the data of the sorting area including a desired... |
| 5179697 |
System for deleting prioritized data stored in second memory after all the data has been successfully transferred to first memory |
| Jan-12-1993 |
A data processing device consists of a first memory and a plurality of second memories. When transferring data to the first memory from the plurality of second memories having transfer orders of the data... |
| 5179375 |
Interconnection system for an electronic cash register |
| Jan-12-1993 |
A system for inputting signals to a terminal includes a first interface having an input port, the first interface including a decoder for decoding the signals received at said port for application to the... |
| 5153585 |
Electronic input-display apparatus |
| Oct-6-1992 |
An electronic input-display apparatus, includes a casing having a microprocessor therein, a display device located above the casing and spaced from the casing by a predetermined distance, a data-input... |
| 5128862 |
Customer operable system for a retail store or fast-food restaurant having plural ordering stations |
| Jul-7-1992 |
An integrated customer self-order microprocessor based system for the placement of orders, the filling of orders and the management of day to day operations in a fast food restaurant setting. The system... |
| 5119294 |
POS terminal group management device with memory for pre-storing different collection data ranges for each POS terminal |
| Jun-2-1992 |
In a transaction processing system including a plurality of POS terminal devices (cash registers), a POS terminal group management device (cluster controller) and a sales management device (store controller),... |
| 5107421 |
Computer system in which work stations support the basic electronic data process |
| Apr-21-1992 |
A computer system executing business processings is disclosed, in which work stations, which themselves have processing functions, are combined with a host computer. In the host computer is disposed a... |
| 5052504 |
Sales data transmission system |
| Oct-1-1991 |
A sales data transmission system includes a sales data processor such as a scale of the type capable of calculating and displaying a sales price from a unit price and a measured weight, a communication... |
| 5051899 |
Data transmission error detection in an electronic cash register system |
| Sep-24-1991 |
A data error-checking system including a transmitting cash register and a receiving cash register, connected to each other in series in a loop formation. Its operation includes the serial transfer of data... |
| 5031098 |
Transaction control system including portable data terminal and mobile customer service station |
| Jul-9-1991 |
A mobile customer service station includes a console on a wheeled chassis. The console carries and houses a number of components which are used in merchandising operations to conclude customer purchase... |
| 5018066 |
System for processing sales data on slips used in restaurants |
| May-21-1991 |
A data processing system according to the invention comprises a system controller and a plurality of ECRs connected to the system controller. Each ECR has a keyboard for inputting sales data per slip number... |
| 5010485 |
Apparatus, system and method for creating credit vouchers usable at point of purchase stations |
| Apr-23-1991 |
Apparatus, system and method are provided for processing charge vouchers against charge card accounts administered by a host institution that issues an approval/disapproval to a merchant for a proposed... |
| 4972463 |
In-store multiple device communications unit and centralized data system utilizing same |
| Nov-20-1990 |
In a store data communications system, multiple data sources having disparate communications standards are connected with respective device interfaces of a multiple device communications controller unit.... |
| 4949257 |
Automated merchandising system for computer software |
| Aug-14-1990 |
An automated merchandising system for computer software including a central memory for storing software for sale to customers, interface apparatus for receiving a software select customer choice input... |
| 4935608 |
Card authorization terminal system in which one terminal transmits data to a designated other terminal |
| Jun-19-1990 |
A card authorization terminal in which a plurality of CATs (card authorization terminals) are connected to a data transmission line. At least one of the CATs comprises: a memory from/into which data can... |
| 4893237 |
Interconnected sales data registration and payment settlement system |
| Jan-9-1990 |
A sales data registration and payment settlement apparatus includes a number of register terminals for registering sales data of each article to be to be purchased by a customer, and for transmitting the... |
| 4887209 |
Electronic cash register system |
| Dec-12-1989 |
An electronic cash register system has an electronic cash register which acts as a master machine and a plurality of electronic cash registers which act as slave machines. The master machine includes a... |
| 4879650 |
POS register system with combined optical scanner and weighing machine |
| Nov-7-1989 |
A point-of-sale register system includes an electronic cash register connected to a central inventory control unit to serve as a terminal device of a point-of-sale system: an optical scanner, which is... |
| 4873631 |
Point of sale automatic back-up system and method |
| Oct-10-1989 |
A point-of-sale system includes a plurality of terminals in which one of the terminals is selected to be a primary terminal and the remaining terminals are selected to be secondary terminals. Program means... |
| 4870577 |
ECR in which article data stored in a memory is altered according to sales data |
| Sep-26-1989 |
A POS system includes a center file and a file control unit, and a plurality of electronic cash registers each including a memory having a predetermined number of data areas each for storing article data,... |
| 4859838 |
POS terminal device |
| Aug-22-1989 |
To improve reliability of a POS (point of sales) terminal device, an internal memory umit is further provided in addition to two external memory units having PLU (price look-up) files. Therefore, even... |
| 4855908 |
POS system |
| Aug-8-1989 |
In a POS system including at least one controller and a plurality of POS terminals, the controller includes a price look-up file formed by a price look-up table and a sum table. When the price look-up... |
| 4843546 |
POS system with means for automatically reconfiguring the center PLU and local files |
| Jun-27-1989 |
A representative one of a plurality of POS terminals is provided with a center PLU file and a local PLU file, and each of the POS terminals is provided with a local PLU buffer which holds a copy of the... |
| 4841442 |
POS system for updating look-up table |
| Jun-20-1989 |
A POS system is made up of a central computer and a plurality of POS terminals. The central computer includes a price look-up (PLU) table and informs the POS terminals of the article data in response to... |
| 4787037 |
ECR with data memory structure for transmitting sales data and re-stock data to an external unit |
| Nov-22-1988 |
An electrical cash register is disclosed, which is provided with a numerical data memory in which sales data input from a keyboard are successively accumulated, and also in which commodity data for different... |
| 4771382 |
Master ECR for interrogating the state and data contents of a slave ECR |
| Sep-13-1988 |
An electronic cash register system of the register-in-line type includes a master machine and a plurality of slave machines which communicate with the master machine. A state determination system is included... |
| 4752875 |
Electronic cash register with a specialized data capturing function |
| Jun-21-1988 |
An electronic cash register according to the present invention stores price data on commodities inputted through ten keys (12) and department codes inputted through department keys (13) in a buffer (631)... |
| 4727243 |
Financial transaction system |
| Feb-23-1988 |
A financial transaction system makes use of an automated terminal or terminals in communication with a host computer which is capable of accessing any of a number of institutionalized or private label... |
| 4713760 |
Transaction processing system for separate registration and settlement functions |
| Dec-15-1987 |
A transaction processing system comprises an electronic cash register machine (ECR) and a balance settling machine. The ECR includes a keyboard from which the figures for individual items in one transaction... |
| 4683536 |
Product sales data processing system for on-line connection to host CPU |
| Jul-28-1987 |
A product sales data processing system includes a plurality of interconnected credit authorization terminals for performing the transmission and reception of data with an outside host computer. One of... |
| 4626844 |
Addressable electronic switch |
| Dec-2-1986 |
An addressable electronic switch which switches power to an electromechanical device upon detection of an individual access code in a serial data stream. The addressable switch is capable of series connection... |
| 4594664 |
Cash processing method and system |
| Jun-10-1986 |
A cash processing method is disclosed for aggregating sales data from cash processing units. Each cash processing unit has a coin counter and bill counter for accepting coins and bills received from sales,... |
| 4594663 |
Credit transaction processing system |
| Jun-10-1986 |
A credit transaction processing system processes data related to a commodity entered into by using a card (17) owned by a customer and a recording card (16) owned by a store. First, merchant transaction... |
| 4589069 |
Data input/output system for gasoline stations |
| May-13-1986 |
A data input/output system for gasoline stations which has a console arranged in an office cabin and electrically connected to each of a plurality of outdoor fuel dispensers, said console comprising a... |
| 4502120 |
System for data transmission between electronic cash registers |
| Feb-26-1985 |
A subsystem comprises an input device for inputting data, an operation device for operating the data, a memory device for memorizing the data, and a transmitting device for dividing the data into parts... |
| 4468750 |
Clustered terminals with writable microcode memories & removable media for applications code & transactions data |
| Aug-28-1984 |
A clustered system of data-entry terminals includes a plurality of physically separate data-entry terminals coupled to a communications link in a cluster. Each of the terminals includes a programmable... |
| 4398250 |
Electronic cash register mutual transmission system for plurality of cash registers |
| Aug-9-1983 |
In an electronic cash register mutual transmission system, a plurality of electronic cash registers each having a memory for storing total data are electrically connected to each other. A search is made... |
