Point-of-sale system
AssigneeSquare, Inc.
InventorsTroy Edwards, Lukas Skoog, Amish Babu, Jesse Dorogusker
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Abstract
A point-of-sale system includes a stand that supports a tablet computer. The tablet computer can run a merchant application to provide the typical functionality for a point-of-sale system. The stand can be rotatable to face either the merchant or the customer. The stand can incorporate a card reader. The tablet computer can be connected through a hub to other peripheral components, such as a controllable cash drawer, a printer and/or a bar code reader. The cash drawer can include a slidable drawer having sliding rails that are hidden from a top view of the drawer.
Claims18
A system for point of sale operations, the system comprising:
- a base;
- a touchscreen display that is pivotably connected to the base, wherein the touchscreen display is configured to swivel about the base between a merchant-facing orientation and a customer-facing orientation, wherein the touchscreen display is further configured to swivel between a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation while the touchscreen display swivels between the merchant-facing orientation and the customer-facing orientation;
- a card reader device that is pivotably connected to the base, wherein the card reader device is configured to swivel about the base between the merchant-facing orientation and the customer-facing orientation, wherein the card reader device is further configured to receive a transaction card, and wherein the card reader device is further configured to read transaction information from the transaction card in response to receipt of the transaction card;
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- a processor configured to receive the transaction information from the card reader device.
A method for point of sale operations, the method comprising:
- receiving a merchant input via a touchscreen display of a point of sale device while the touchscreen display is oriented in a merchant-facing orientation;
- swiveling the touchscreen display of the point of sale device about a base of the point of sale device from the merchant-facing orientation to a customer-facing orientation;
- swiveling the touchscreen display of the point of sale device between a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation while swiveling the touchscreen display from the merchant-facing orientation to the customer-facing orientation;
- receiving transaction information from a transaction card read by a card reader device of the point of sale device;
- receiving a customer input via the touchscreen display of the point of sale device while the touchscreen display is oriented in the customer-facing orientation;
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- transmitting the transaction information from the point of sale device to a payment server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.