Monitoring point of sale peripheral devices
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsBinh Truong, Pun Yi Lee
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Abstract
A system includes a machine readable storage medium storing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions. The processor executes the instructions to monitor software calls between a point of sale application and a sharable point of sale peripheral device, wherein each software call defines a type of access to the sharable point of sale peripheral device. The processor executes the instructions to collect management data for the sharable point of sale peripheral device based on the monitored software calls. The processor executes the instructions to store the collected management data to create a record of the usage of the sharable point of sale peripheral device.
Claims15
A system comprising:
- a machine readable storage medium storing instructions;
- and
- a processor to execute the instructions to:
- monitor software calls between a point of sale application and a sharable point of sale peripheral device, wherein each software call defines a type of access to the sharable point of sale peripheral device;
- collect management data for the sharable point of sale peripheral device based on the monitored software calls;
- and
- store the collected management data to create a record of the usage of the sharable point of sale peripheral device.
A system comprising:
- a machine readable storage medium storing instructions;
- and
- a processor to execute the instructions to:
- monitor software calls between a point of sale application and a cash drawer device, wherein each software call defines a type of access to the cash drawer device;
- collect management data for the cash drawer device based on the monitored software calls;
- and
- store the collected management data to create a record of the usage of the cash drawer device.
A method for managing a point of sale peripheral device, the method comprising:
- monitoring, at a control layer of a point of sale system, software calls between a point of sale application layer of the point of sale system and a point of sale peripheral device service layer of the point of sale system, wherein each software call defines a type of access to the point of sale peripheral device;
- collecting management data for the point of sale peripheral device based on the monitored software calls;
- and
- storing the collected management data to a database to create a record of the usage of the point of sale peripheral device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.