Enterprise polling system for electronic cash registers
AssigneeBa-Bing! LLC
InventorsMark N. Nelson, Andrew James Baumgartner
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Abstract
A method and system for transmitting information from a point of sale terminal such as an electronic cash register to a remote site. The system eliminates the need for a computer to operate the point of sale terminal at the store location. The system includes modifying the firmware of the point of sale terminal to store the data from the periodic transactional report of the terminal in data storage areas within the POS terminal. This data is later retrieved and transmitted to the remote central office or data warehouse.
Claims8
A method for obtaining information from a commercially available electronic cash register that has programmable firmware, the method comprising the steps of:
- modifying the programmable firmware to create at least one data storage area;
- modifying the programmable firmware to store data relating to periodic reports of the transactions entered in the electronic cash register in the at least one data storage area;
- retrieving the stored data from the at least one data storage area;
- and
- transmitting the retrieved stored data to a remote host.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.