COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TAKING OVER PROCESSING BY THE SAME

• US 20190311342A1
• Filed: 06/25/2019
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Inagawa, Nobuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 11,250,401 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4081 Live connection to bus, e.g. hot-plugging current or voltage limitation during live insertion H02H9/004
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• 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 1/0018 Constructional details, e.g. of drawer, printing means, input means
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0036 Checkout procedures
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0081 the reader being a portable scanner or data reader G07G1/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/12 electronically operated digital data processing aspects G06Q20/00

Abstract

In accordance with one embodiment, a commodity sales data processing apparatus comprises a stationary type docking station with a storage module, and a portable information terminal which is attached to and detached from the docking station freely. The information terminal receives an input of data relating to the sales of a commodity to process the received data, and stores the data required to take over the processing in the storage module of the docking station Then the information terminal successively executes, if the information terminal is attached to the docking station, the processing by referring to the data stored in the storage module of the docking station.

Claims

1. A commodity sales data processing apparatus, comprising:

a stationary type docking station having a storage module; and

a portable information terminal configured to be attached to and detached from the docking station freely,

wherein the docking station includes a work history table in which at least an application code for identifying an application program executed by the portable information terminal and a takeover code for identifying data required to take over processing based on the application program are writable, and

the portable information terminal includes;

a processor configured to, when the information terminal is attached to the docking station, read the application code and the takeover code from the work history table of the docking station, start the application program identified by the application code, and successively execute processing based on the application program by continuously using the data identified by the takeover code in a following processing.

2. The commodity sales data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the work history table further stores a terminal code for identifying the information terminal that has executed the processing based on the application program.

3. The commodity sales data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to, when the information terminal is attached to the docking station, read the application code, the takeover code, and the terminal code from the work history table of the docking station, and shows on a display that the processing based on the application program identified by the application code has been executed by the information terminal identified by the terminal code.

4. An information terminal, comprising:

an input module configured to receive an input of data relating to the sales of a commodity;

a processing module configured to process the data received by the input module; and

a processor configured to, when the information terminal is attached to the docking station, read the application code and the takeover code from the work history table of the docking station, start the application program identified by the application code, and successively execute processing based on the application program by continuously using the data identified by the takeover code in a following processing,

wherein the information terminal is configured to be freely attached to and detached from the docking station that includes a work history table in which at least an application code for identifying an application program executed by the portable information terminal and a takeover code for identifying data required to take over processing based on the application program are writable.

5. The information terminal according to claim 4,

wherein the work history table further stores a terminal code for identifying the information terminal that has executed the processing based on the application program, and the processor is further configured to, when the information terminal is attached to the docking station, read the application code, the takeover code, and the terminal code from the work history table of the docking station, and shows on a display that the processing based on the application program identified by the application code has been executed by the information terminal identified by the terminal code.

6. A method for taking over processing by an information terminal, comprising:

receiving an input of data relating to sales of a commodity;

processing the data received; and

when the information terminal is attached to a docking station, reading application code and takeover code from a work history table of the docking station, starting an application program identified by the application code, and successively executing processing based on the application program by continuously using data identified by the takeover code in a following processing,

wherein the information terminal is configured to be freely attached to and detached from the docking station that includes a work history table in which at least an application code for identifying an application program executed by the portable information terminal and a takeover code for identifying data required to take over processing based on the application program are writable.