US 12,314,926 B2 · Method and printer driver unit for performing transaction by automatically transmitting data to EDC terminal

Abstract

The present disclosure is related to a printing driver unit, which discloses method and printer driver unit for performing a transaction by automatically transmitting data to an Electronic Data Capture (EDC) terminal. Method includes receiving, by printer driver unit associated with host computing device, first print request including first data related to purchase, from host computing device. Further, the printer driver unit extracts final transaction amount from first data and determines status of EDC terminal upon extracting final transaction amount. When EDC terminal is determined to be in first state, the printer driver unit generates a second print request including extracted final transaction amount and transmits the generated second print request to EDC terminal to facilitate automatic insertion of final transaction amount in EDC terminal to initiate payment transaction. Embodiments herein helps in auto-populating final transaction amount in EDC terminal, without the help of vendor specific billing system.

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Dependent claims

A method of performing a transaction by automatically transmitting data to an Electronic Data Capture (EDC) terminal (206), the method comprising:

receiving, by a printer driver unit (204) associated with a host computing device (202), a first print request comprising first data related to a purchase, from the host computing device (202), wherein the printer driver unit (204) is initialized to act as an interface between the host computing device (202) and an Electronic Data Capture (EDC) terminal (206);
extracting, by the printer driver unit (204), a final transaction amount from the first data;
determining, by the printer driver unit (204), status of the EDC terminal (206) upon extracting the final transaction amount by transmitting a status request to the EDC terminal (206), wherein the status of the EDC terminal (206) is one of a first state indicative of a print acceptance state or a second state indicative of a normal state;
generating, by the printer driver unit (204), a second print request comprising the extracted final transaction amount, when the EDC terminal (206) is determined to be in a first state;
and
transmitting, by the printer driver unit (204), the generated second print request to the EDC terminal (206) to facilitate automatic insertion of the final transaction amount in the EDC terminal (206) to initiate a payment transaction.

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A printer driver unit (204) for performing a transaction by automatically transmitting data to an Electronic Data Capture (EDC) terminal (206), the printer driver unit (204) comprising:

a processor (210);
and
a memory (214) communicatively coupled to the processor (210), wherein the memory (214) stores the processor (210) instructions, which on execution, causes the processor (210) to:
receive a first print request comprising first data related to a purchase, from a host computing device (202), wherein the printer driver unit (204) is initialized to act as an interface between the host computing device (202) and an Electronic Data Capture (EDC) terminal (206);
extract a final transaction amount from the first data;
determine status of the EDC terminal (206) upon extracting the final transaction amount by transmitting a status request to the EDC terminal (206), wherein the status of the EDC terminal (206) is one of a first state indicative of a print acceptance state or a second state indicative of a normal state;
generate a second print request comprising the extracted final transaction amount, when the EDC terminal (206) is determined to be in a first state;
and
transmit the generated second print request to the EDC terminal (206) to facilitate automatic insertion of the final transaction amount in the EDC terminal (206) to initiate a payment transaction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and printer driver unit for performing transaction by automatically transmitting data to EDC terminal

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Method and printer driver unit for performing transaction by automatically transmitting data to EDC terminal

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