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US 2013/0085879 A1Published application
Time Multiplexing POS for INAisle Scanning
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorThomas V. Edwards
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Abstract
Multiplexing techniques are addressed to allow multiple in store devices to share point of sale instances thereby reducing the overall number of point of sale instances employed. Customer scanning applications, such as price checking and phone based in aisle scanning are addressed.
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A system for multiplexing plural shared point of sale (POS) instances for shared use by a plurality of mobile sessions comprising:
- a wireless communications mechanism for wirelessly communicating with the plurality of mobile sessions and receiving mobile scan requests therefrom;
- a session multiplexer that queues the incoming scan requests, dequeues scan requests, and multiplexes the received mobile scan requests to the next available POS instance from among the plural shared POS instances;
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- a POS adapter which presents a standardized interface for directing the POS to perform item sale and related operations in an embedded fashion.
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A method for multiplexing plural shared point of sale (POS) instances for shared use by a plurality of mobile sessions comprising:
- wirelessly communicating with the plurality of mobile sessions and receiving mobile scan requests therefrom;
- multiplexing the received mobile scan requests with a session multiplexer;
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- routing the multiplexed requests with a POS adapter to a next available POS instance from among the plural shared POS instances.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.