RECEIPT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20100274685A1
• Filed: 04/06/2010
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Kurihara, Jun
• Granted Patent: US 8,392,258 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

A receipt management system receives receipt data including biometric data which is issued when a product is purchased at a store, and judges whether or not biometric data that coincides with an employee'"'"'s biometric data is registered in an employee management table of a company.

Claims

1. A receipt management system including a business system set up in a store, an intermediation server set up in a management company, and a receipt processing system set up in a member company, wherein

the business system comprises:

a receipt data creation unit for creating receipt data in accordance with a purchasing of a product at the store;

a biometric data reading unit for reading biometric data of a product purchaser;

a company selection unit for having the product purchaser select a company to which the product purchaser belongs from a company list; and

a transmission unit for combining a company ID corresponding to the company selected by the product purchaser, the created receipt data, and the read biometric data as one datum, and for transmitting the one datum to the intermediation server as receipt data including biometric data, wherein

the intermediation server comprises;

a destination determination unit for searching a registered company management table having company IDs and IP addresses by using as a key the company ID contained in the receipt data including biometric data when the receipt data including biometric data is received from the business system, and for determining that an IP address corresponding to a found company ID is a destination of the received receipt data including biometric data; and

a transfer processing unit for transferring the received receipt data including biometric data to the determined destination, and wherein

the receipt processing system comprises;

an employee identification processing unit for searching an employee management table having employee IDs and biometric data by using as a key the biometric data contained in the receipt data including biometric data when the receipt data including biometric data is received from the intermediation server, and for judging, in accordance with a result of the search, whether or not biometric data that coincides with the biometric data used as a key is registered in the employee management table.

2. A receipt management system including a business system set up in a store, an intermediation server set up in a management company, and a receipt processing system set up in a member company, wherein

the business system comprises:

a receipt data creation unit for creating receipt data in accordance with a purchasing of a product at the store;

a biometric data reading unit for reading biometric data of a product purchaser;

a company selection unit for having the product purchaser select a company to which the product purchaser belongs from a company list;

an employee ID entering unit for having the product purchaser enter an employee ID of a company to which the product purchaser belongs; and

a transmission unit for combining a company ID corresponding to the company selected by the product purchaser, the entered employee ID, the created receipt data, and the read biometric data as one datum, and for transmitting the one datum to the intermediation server as receipt data including biometric data, wherein

the intermediation server comprises;

a destination determination unit for searching a registered company management table including company IDs and IP addresses by using as a key the company ID contained in the receipt data including biometric data when the receipt data including biometric data is received from the business system, and for determining that an IP address corresponding to a found company ID is a destination of the received receipt data including biometric data; and

a transfer processing unit for transferring the received receipt data including biometric data to the determined destination, and wherein

the receipt processing system comprises

an employee identification processing unit for searching the employee management table having employee IDs and biometric data by using as a key the employee ID contained in the receipt data including biometric data when the receipt data including biometric data is received from the intermediation server, and for judging, in accordance with a result of the search, whether or not biometric data related to the employee ID used as a key is registered in the employee management table when an employee ID that coincides with the employee ID used as a key is searched for.

3. An in-store receipt data transmission device, wherein

a business system connected via a communication line to an external receipt management device and set up in a store comprises:

a receipt data creation unit for creating receipt data in accordance with a purchasing of a product at the store;

a biometric data reading unit for reading biometric data of a product purchaser;

a company selection unit for having the product purchaser select a company to which the product purchaser belongs from a company list; and

a transmission unit for combining a company ID corresponding to the company selected by the product purchaser, the created receipt data, and the read biometric data as one datum, and for transmitting the one datum to the external receipt management device as receipt data including biometric data.