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US 2004/0172276 A1Published application
POS system
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorToshihiro Kamo
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Abstract
A POS system including a server (30) and a client (40), comprising a first master file (21) formed in a relational data base format and used during an online session between the server and the client, and a second master file (41) having a capacity smaller than the first master file, and used during an offline session between the server and the client, the second master file being downloaded from the server to the client at a time when the client starts service.
Claims7
A POS system including a server and a client, comprising:
- a first master file formed in a relational data base format and used during an online session between the server and the client;
- and
- a second master file formed in a text format, having a capacity smaller than the first master file, and used during an offline session between the server and the client;
- the second master file being down loaded from the server to the client at a time when it is necessary for the client:
- the client comprising:
- a first referring means referring the first master file;
- and
- a second referring means referring the second master file;
- the referring means being switched in such a way that, during an online session, the first master file being referred to by the first referring means;
- and
- during an offline session, the second master file being referred to by the second referring means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.