Point of sale system and commodity accounting processing method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorRyuji KOMORI
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Abstract
A POS system includes a POS register configured to read a commodity identification code and first amount information from a tag attached to a commodity. A commodity master database stores the commodity identification code and associated second amount information. The POS register includes an accounting processor configured to perform accounting processing based on the first amount information in the event the second amount information cannot be acquired from the commodity master database. When the first amount information is not previously stored in the commodity master database, the commodity master database stores the first amount information in association with the commodity identification code responsive to reading the first amount information from the tag.
Claims16
A point-of-sale (POS) system, the system comprising:
- a POS register comprising an accounting processor,
- wherein the POS register is configured to:
- scan a tag attached to a commodity;
- and
- read a commodity identification code and first amount information from the tag;
- and
- a commodity master database configured to store the commodity identification code and associated second amount information,
- wherein the accounting processor is configured to perform accounting processing based on the first amount information responsive to determining the second amount information cannot be acquired from the commodity master database based on the commodity identification code.
A point-of-sale (POS) system, comprising:
- a POS register comprising an accounting processor,
- wherein the POS register is configured to:
- scan a tag attached to a commodity;
- and
- read a commodity identification code and first amount information from the tag;
- and
- a memory configured to store a commodity master database, the commodity master database being configured to store the commodity identification code and associated second amount information,
- wherein the accounting processor is configured to:
- receive, at a communication interface, the second amount information from the commodity master database;
- receive, at the communication interface, the first amount information from the POS register;
- compare the first amount information and the second amount information;
- and
- perform accounting processing based on one of the first amount information or the second amount information.
A method for commodity accounting processing, the method comprising:
- storing a commodity identification code and first amount information on a tag and attaching the tag to a commodity;
- scanning, at a POS register, the tag attached to the commodity;
- reading, at the POS register, the commodity identification code and the first amount information from the tag;
- querying, at the POS register, a commodity master database for second amount information associated with the commodity identification code;
- and
- performing accounting processing based on the first amount information when the second amount information associated with the commodity identification code cannot be acquired from the commodity master database.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.