US 11,379,812 B2Granted

Data management device, data management system, and data management method

AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKenji Sakurai, Kazuya Nambu

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Abstract

A data management device includes a network interface, a memory storing first and second databases, and a processor. The processor determines whether a customer identifier has been included in receipt data. When the identifier is included, the receipt data is stored in both databases. When the identifier is not included, receipt data is stored in the second database. The processor searches the first database for receipt data including a customer's identifier upon request and controls the interface to transmit the receipt data found by the search to the customer terminal. If a search request is received from a server, the second database is searched for receipt data that satisfies a search condition accompanying the request, and then receipt found in the search is transmitted to the server.

Claims14

Dependent claims

An electronic receipt data management system, comprising:

a point of sales (POS) terminal installed at a store and configured to:
perform checkout processing on one or more commodities purchased by a customer in a sales transaction,
print a receipt of the sales transaction, and
generate unstructured data of the printed receipt;
an electronic receipt generating terminal installed at the store and including a first processor configured to:
convert the unstructured data generated by the POS terminal into structured receipt data,
when an electronic receipt user identifier of the customer is input in the sales transaction, include the user identifier in the structured receipt data, and
issue the structured receipt data;
and
an electronic receipt management server including:
a network interface,
a memory that stores first and second databases for storing structured receipt data, and
a second processor configured to:
upon receiving structured receipt data from the electronic receipt generating terminal via the network interface, determine whether an electronic receipt user identifier is included in the structured receipt data,
upon determining that the user identifier is included in the structured receipt data, store the structured receipt data in the first and second databases,
upon determining that the user identifier is not included in the structured receipt data, store the structured receipt data in the second database,
upon receiving a request for structured receipt data from a customer terminal of a customer, search the first database for structured receipt data including an electronic receipt user identifier of the customer and control the network interface to transmit the structured receipt data found by the search to the customer terminal, and
upon receiving a request for structured receipt data with a search condition from a first center server operated by an entity other than the customer, search the second database for structured receipt data that satisfies the search condition and control the network interface to transmit the structured receipt data found by the search to the first center server.

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An electronic receipt data management method carried out by an electronic receipt data management system including a point of sales (POS) terminal and an electronic receipt generating terminal installed at a store and an electronic receipt management server, the method comprising:

by the POS terminal, performing checkout processing on one or more commodities purchased by a customer in a sales transaction, printing a receipt of the sales transaction, and generating unstructured data of the printed receipt;
by the electronic receipt generating terminal, converting the unstructured data into structured receipt data, when an electronic receipt user identifier of the customer is input in the sales transaction, including the user identifier in the structured receipt data, and issuing the structured receipt data;
and
by the electronic receipt management server:
storing first and second databases for storing structured receipt data;
upon receiving structured receipt data, determining whether an electronic receipt user identifier is included in the structured receipt data;
upon determining that the user identifier is included in the structured receipt data, storing the structured receipt data in the first database and the second database;
and
upon determining that the user identifier is not included in the structured receipt data, storing the structured receipt data in the second database;
upon receiving a request for structured receipt data from a customer terminal of a customer, searching the first database for structured receipt data including an electronic receipt user identifier of the customer and transmitting to the structured receipt data found by the search to the customer terminal;
and
upon receiving a request for structured receipt data with a search condition from a first center server operated by an entity other than the customer, searching the second database for structured receipt data that satisfies the search condition and transmitting the structured receipt data found by the search to the first center server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/905,848Filed 18 Jun 2020
Priority: JP JP2019-16475410 Sep 2019
Published: US 2021/0073764 A111 Mar 2021
Granted: 5 Jul 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06Q 20/202
Point-of-sale [POS] network systems: interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network…
G06Q 20/047
Payment circuits: using payment protocols involving electronic receipts
G06Q 20/204
Point-of-sale [POS] network systems: comprising interface for record bearing medium or carrier for electronic funds transfer or payment credit
G06Q 20/206
Point-of-sale [POS] network systems: comprising security or operator identification provisions, e.g. password entry