Techniques for restaurant transaction processing
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsJames Asa Cloin, James Lee Fortuna
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Abstract
Techniques for restaurant transaction processing are provided. A handheld device of a waiter is used to automatically associate a check with a table at a restaurant and to recall and modify that check. In an embodiment, two waiters use one or more handheld devices to automatically transfer a customer's check to one another.
Claims8
1-20. (canceled)
A method for transaction processing, the method implemented as executable instructions programmed in a memory and the executable instructions executed from the memory by one or more processors of a first handheld device, the method comprising:
- designating, by the executable instructions executed by the processors of the first handheld device, a second handheld device and an open transaction for a customer;
- and
- tapping the first handheld device to the second handheld device;
- automatically initiating, by the executable instructions, the wireless transfer of the open transaction from processing on the first handheld device to processing on the second handheld device and processing, by the second handheld device, payment for the open transaction to close the open transaction by providing the payment, and wherein automatically initiating further includes notifying, by the first handheld device, a transaction processing manager executing on a server and accessible over a network of the transfer of the open transaction from the first handheld device to the second handheld device, wherein the transaction processing manager acts as a centralized manager for transactions.
The method of claim 8 further comprising, receiving, by the first handheld device confirmation that the second handheld device confirms transfer to handle the open transaction.
The method of claim 8, wherein tapping further includes automatically identifying the second handheld device when the first handheld device physically touches the second handheld device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.