POS system, network system, advertisement information delivering method and recording medium recording the method
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1. A POS system comprising:
- a POS terminal device having a printing device for printing POS information and a display device, the POS system further comprising;
a storage device for storing predetermined codes and associated advertisement information;
a print medium or a container thereof which is used in the printing device and has at least one of the codes added to at least one of a body and a wrapper of the print medium or container;
a code reader for reading the code added to the print medium or the container thereof; and
a print controller for controlling printing of the advertisement information together with the POS information, wherein the advertisement information associated with the code is printed together with the POS information while the print medium or the container thereof is attached to the printing device
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Abstract
An advertisement delivering method and system that accepts an application for advertisement information and determines an inherent code to the advertisement information and converts the same code into a machine readable code such as a bar code to be added to a print medium. The advertisement information is delivered to a store through a network and is read through the bar code in a store using the print medium. Consequently, advertisement information corresponding to the bar code is determined, and is printed and output to the receipt of the store.
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17 Claims
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1. A POS system comprising:
a POS terminal device having a printing device for printing POS information and a display device, the POS system further comprising;
a storage device for storing predetermined codes and associated advertisement information;
a print medium or a container thereof which is used in the printing device and has at least one of the codes added to at least one of a body and a wrapper of the print medium or container;
a code reader for reading the code added to the print medium or the container thereof; and
a print controller for controlling printing of the advertisement information together with the POS information, wherein the advertisement information associated with the code is printed together with the POS information while the print medium or the container thereof is attached to the printing device - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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2. A network system comprising a server system and a POS system including a POS terminal having a printing device for printing POS information and a display device, the network system further comprising:
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(a) an advertisement data delivery network for delivering advertisement data including predetermined codes and associated advertisement information from the server system to the POS system;
(b) a print medium or a container thereof which is used in the printing device and has one of the predetermined codes added to at least one of a body and a wrapper of the print medium or container;
(c) a code reader for reading the code added to the print medium or the container thereof;
(d) a data storage and management device for retaining and manipulating the delivered advertisement data in the POS system, and for comparing the code read by the code reader with the predetermined codes, thereby determining associated advertisement information; and
(f) a print controller for controlling printing of the determined advertisement information together with the POS information. - View Dependent Claims (3)
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13. An advertisement information delivering method in a network system comprising at least a server system and a POS system including a store POS terminal device having a display device and a print device, comprising the steps of:
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(a) delivering advertisement information to be printed on a receipt in a store POS terminal device corresponding to a predetermined code from the server system to the POS system through a network;
(b) reading a code added to a print medium attached to the printing device or a container accommodating the print medium in the store POS terminal device of the POS system;
(c) determining the advertisement information based on the code added to the print medium or the container accommodating the print medium which is read; and
(d) printing the advertisement information corresponding to the code added to the print medium or the container accommodating the print medium which is specified, on the receipt of the store POS terminal device together with receipt information of the POS terminal device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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