Order accounting system and order accounting method

• US 20080228608A1
• Filed: 03/06/2008
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SII Data Service Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: SII Data Service Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Nakanishi, Masayuki, Iso, Nobuaki, Kurahashi, Masayuki
• Application Number:
  US12/074,826
• Publication Number:
  US 20080228608A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/14 Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit data transmission in general H04L; telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station H04Q9/00

Abstract

To provide an order accounting system capable of swiftly performing accounting processing, and of allowing to understand an account state in real time, in the order accounting system, an order input terminal requests an ordering control device to send unsettled data which is account data for which account has not been settled and receives the unsettled data, performs accounting processing based on the unsettled data, and sends, after the accounting processing is performed, the account identification information included in the unsettled data to the ordering control device as settled account identification information. The ordering control device receives the settled account identification information to update the account data which is stored in the account data storage part and which corresponds to the settled account identification information by setting the account data to a settled state, detects, in response to a request for unsettled data from the order input terminal, the unsettled data from the account data storage part, and sends the detected unsettled data to the order input terminal.

Claims

1. An order accounting system, comprising:

an order input terminal for sending inputted order data and account identification information which identifies the order data; and

an ordering control device for storing, as account data which includes account identification information indicating whether an account has been settled, the order data and the account identification information which are received from the order input terminal, in an account data storage part;

wherein the order input terminal comprises;

unsettled-data reception means for requesting the ordering control device to send unsettled data which is account data for which account has not been settled and receiving the unsettled data;

hand-held accounting means for performing accounting processing based on the unsettled data; and

settled account identification information transmission means for sending, after the accounting processing is performed, the account identification information included in the unsettled data to the ordering control device as settled account identification information; and

wherein the ordering control device comprises;

server accounting means for receiving the settled account identification information to update the account data which is stored in the account data storage part and which corresponds to the settled account identification information by setting the account data to a settled state;

unsettled-data detecting means for detecting, in response to a request for unsettled data from the order input terminal, the unsettled data from the account data storage part; and

unsettled-data transmission means for sending the detected unsettled data to the order input terminal.

2. An order accounting system according to claim 1;

wherein the ordering control device further comprises;

settlement means for performing settlement processing of the account data; and

aggregation means for performing aggregation processing of the account data according to a specified condition to generate aggregation data.

3. An order accounting system according to claim 2;

wherein the order input terminal further comprises;

settlement instruction means for sending an operation instruction for the settlement processing to the ordering control device;

aggregation instruction means for sending an operation instruction for the aggregation processing to the ordering control device; and

aggregation data display means for reading a result of the settlement processing and the aggregation data from the ordering control device to display the result of the settlement processing and the aggregation data on a display section.

4. An order accounting system according to claim 1;

wherein;

the account data includes customer table identification information; and

the order input terminal further comprises;

account table display means for displaying the customer table identification information included in the account data received from the ordering control device such that a difference in the account information can be identified; and

account table determination means for receiving an input to select one of displayed pieces of the customer table identification information.

5. An order accounting system according to claim 4;

wherein;

the account table display means displays account table list data in which pieces of the customer table identification information are displayed in blocks and the blocks are displayed in different formats depending on the account information; and

the account table determination means receives an input to select one of the blocks and detects the customer table identification information corresponding to a selected one of the blocks.

6. An order accounting system according to claim 1;

further comprising a slip output device that includes slip output means for receiving and outputting one of the order data, the account data, the result of the settlement processing, and the aggregation data; and

the ordering control device causes, when settled account data is received, the slip output device to output the settled account data.

7. An order accounting method using an order input terminal for sending inputted order data and account identification information which identifies the order data, and an ordering control device for storing, as account data which includes account identification information indicating whether an account has been settled, the order data and the account identification information which are received from the order input terminal, in an account data storage part, the method comprising:

using the order input terminal to carry out;

an unsettled-data reception processing step of requesting the ordering control device to send unsettled data which is account data for which account has not been settled and receiving the unsettled data;

an accounting processing step of performing accounting processing based on the unsettled data; and

a settled account identification information transmission step of sending, after the accounting processing is performed, the account identification information included in the unsettled data to the ordering control device as settled account identification information; and

using the ordering control device to carry out;

a server accounting processing step of receiving the settled account identification information to update the account data which is stored in the account data storage part and which corresponds to the settled account identification information by setting the account data to a settled state;

an unsettled-data detecting step of detecting, in response to a request for unsettled data from the order input terminal, the unsettled data from the account data storage part; and

an unsettled-data transmission step of sending the detected unsettled data to the order input terminal.