System and method for integration of lottery terminals into point of sale systems
First Claim
1. A system for performing both lottery ticket transactions and merchandise sales transactions and for maintaining a record of all such transactions, comprising:
- a plurality of lottery terminals;
a plurality of POS terminals for registering both lottery ticket transactions and merchandise transactions, each coupled to a lottery terminal for receiving data from said lottery terminal;
a plurality of scanners, each coupled to a lottery terminal for providing merchandise data to an associated POS terminal through the lottery terminal to which it is coupled;
a lottery controller coupled to all of said lottery terminals; and
a transaction processor coupled to all of said POS terminals.
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Abstract
In a system for performing both lottery ticket transactions and merchandise sales transactions and maintaining a record of both, a group of lottery terminals are coupled to a lottery central processing center. A POS (point of sale) terminal and a bar code scanner are coupled to each lottery terminal. The lottery terminal can pass through information from the bar code scanner to the POS terminal through a scanner interface of the POS terminal using a predetermined scanner data format and can also transmit lottery ticket information to the POS terminal using a similar data format. A group of POS terminals are coupled to an in-store processor to enable both lottery and merchandise data to be recognized and recorded.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for performing both lottery ticket transactions and merchandise sales transactions and for maintaining a record of all such transactions, comprising:
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a plurality of lottery terminals; a plurality of POS terminals for registering both lottery ticket transactions and merchandise transactions, each coupled to a lottery terminal for receiving data from said lottery terminal; a plurality of scanners, each coupled to a lottery terminal for providing merchandise data to an associated POS terminal through the lottery terminal to which it is coupled; a lottery controller coupled to all of said lottery terminals; and a transaction processor coupled to all of said POS terminals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A system for performing both lottery ticket transactions and merchandise sale transactions and for maintaining a record of all such transactions, comprising:
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a lottery central processing center; a plurality of lottery controllers each coupled to the lottery central processing center; a group of lottery terminals coupled to each lottery controller; a POS terminal for registering both lottery ticket transactions and merchandise transactions coupled to each lottery terminal of each group for receiving data from said lottery terminal; a scanner coupled to each lottery terminal of each group for providing merchandise data to an associated POS terminal through the lottery terminal to which it is coupled; and a plurality of transaction processors, each transaction processor being coupled to all of the POS terminals associated with one group of lottery terminals. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for performing lottery ticket transactions and merchandise sale transactions in an establishment and for maintaining a combined record of both types of transactions, comprising:
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a scanner for scanning coded symbols on merchandise purchased and presenting information read from said symbols in a predetermined format at an output of said scanner; a POS terminal for recording merchandise transactions, said terminal having a scanner interface for receiving information in said predetermined format; and a lottery terminal coupled to said POS terminal through said scanner interface and itself having a scanner interface to which said scanner is coupled, said lottery terminal being capable of transmitting information in said predetermined format from said scanner to said scanner interface of said POS terminal to cause said POS terminal to perform a transaction relating to information scanned by said scanner, and also being capable of providing information relating to lottery transactions in said predetermined format to said scanner interface of said POS terminal to cause said POS terminal to perform a transaction related to the operation of said lottery terminal. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for performing both lottery ticket transactions and merchandise sale transactions and for maintaining a record of all such transactions, comprising:
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a POS terminal having first and second scanner interfaces; a scanner coupled to one of said interfaces; and a lottery terminal coupled to the other of said interfaces; whereby said POS terminal is capable of receiving merchandise sale transaction information from said code scanner through said one of said interfaces, and is capable of receiving lottery ticket transaction data from said lottery terminal through said other of said interfaces. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for performing lottery ticket transactions and merchandise sale transactions utilizing a lottery terminal, a lottery controller, a POS terminal and a scanner for scanning coded merchandise symbols and for maintaining a combined record of both types of transactions, comprising the following steps:
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making a determination by the lottery terminal as to whether or not coded merchandise symbol data is available to be received; if so, reading the coded merchandise data from the scanner and transmitting the data to the POS terminal; making a determination by the lottery terminal as to whether or not a lottery sales request has been made to the lottery terminal; if so, sending a lottery ticket request to the lottery controller; receiving a lottery ticket acknowledgement by the lottery terminal from the lottery controller; transmitting data representing a lottery ticket sale to the POS terminal; and printing the lottery ticket representing said lottery ticket sale by said lottery terminal. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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