Pos system with enhanced ordering experience and method for operating the same
OwnerWilliam Wu-Hua Szeinventor
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Abstract
A POS system with enhanced ordering experience and a method for operating the POS system are disclosed. The POS system comprises: a server, providing business data and recording operation data; a master POS terminal, placed in a working space and connected to the server via a wide area network; and at least one slave POS terminal, connected to the master POS terminal via a local area network available in the working space. Each slave POS terminal operates to request business data needed from the server through the master POS terminal to show to customers, receive the operation data input by the customers, and upload the operation data to the server through the master POS terminal.
Claims18
A (point of sale) POS system, comprising:
- a server, providing business data and recording operation data;
- and
- a master POS terminal, placed in a working space and connected to the server via a wide area network, operates to
- request business data from the server to show to customers,
- receive the operation data input by the customers, and
- upload the operation data to the server.
A method for operating a POS system, comprising steps of:
- a) placing a master POS terminal and at least one slave POS terminal in a working space and powering on the master POS terminal and the at least one slave POS terminal to operate;
- b) connecting the master POS terminal a server via a wide area network and connecting the at least one slave POS terminal to the master POS terminal via a local area network available in the working space;
- c) fetching setting data for settings at startup and business data needed from the server by the master POS terminal and the at least one slave POS terminal;
- d) showing the business data to customers by the master POS terminal and the at least one slave POS terminal;
- e) receiving operation data input by the customers at the master POS terminal and the at least one slave POS terminal;
- f) periodically uploading the received operation data to the server by the master POS terminal;
- and
- g) repeating step d) to step f).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.