COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20090254444A1
• Filed: 04/06/2009
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Harada, Masayoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/418,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20090254444A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/18
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0009 Details of the software in the checkout register, electronic cash register [ECR] or point of sale terminal [POS]
• 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

A controller of a commodity sales data processing apparatus outputs, in response to closing operation for one transaction or bill exchange operation for instructing bill exchange, an opening command to a cash storing unit, which can be freely opened and closed to store cash and opens according to the opening command, to open the cash storing unit. The controller prohibits the opening of the cash storing unit when the bill exchange operation in the operation input unit is performed regardless of a state in which the one transaction is suspended.

Claims

1. A commodity sales data processing apparatus comprising:

a commodity-data input unit for inputting data concerning a commodity;

an operation input unit for inputting data;

a first data storing unit that stores data;

a second data storing unit that saves data; and

a controller that executes processing for;

outputting, in response to opening operation in the operation input unit, an opening command to a cash storing unit that can be freely opened and closed to store cash and opens according to the opening command;

storing, in the first data storing unit, transaction data for one transaction corresponding to input operation in the commodity-data input unit;

saving, when the one transaction is concluded, the transaction data stored in the first data storing unit in the second data storing unit as sales data;

saving, when the one transaction is suspended, the transaction data stored in the first data storing unit in the second data storing unit as transaction non-conclusion data; and

prohibiting opening of the cash storing unit when opening operation is performed in the operation input unit in a state in which the one transaction is suspended.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller saves, when the opening operation in the operation input unit is performed in the state in which the one transaction is suspended, the transaction non-conclusion data in the second data storing unit as illegal operation data.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller executes warning when the opening operation is performed in the operation input unit in the state in which the one transaction is suspended.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller further executes processing for:

measuring, when the opening operation is performed in the operation input unit in the state in which the one transaction is suspended, time after the opening operation; and

releasing, when the measured time reaches a fixed time, the prohibition of the opening of the cash storing unit.

5. A computer-readable medium having a computer program stored thereon that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to:

output, in response to opening operation in an operation input unit for inputting data, an opening command to a cash storing unit that can be freely opened and closed to store cash and opens according to the opening command;

store, in a first data storing unit that stores data, transaction data for one transaction corresponding to input operation in a commodity-data input unit for inputting data concerning a commodity;

save, when the one transaction is concluded, the transaction data stored in the first data storing unit in a second data storing unit, which saves data, as sales data;

save, when the one transaction is suspended, the transaction data stored in the first data storing unit in the second data storing unit as transaction non-conclusion data; and

prohibit opening of the cash storing unit when opening operation is performed in the operation input unit in a state in which the one transaction is suspended.