Portable point of sale terminal
First Claim
1. A portable point of sale terminal comprising:
- a hand-carryable housing having a front face with a recess formed therein;
a display mounted on the front face of the housing;
a plurality of keyboards, leach keyboard being sized to be removably received individually in the recess in the front face of the housing;
a power source located within the housing; and
an electromagnetic transceiver located within the housing, for transmitting and receiving data over the air to an from a remote device.
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Abstract
A point of sale terminal is disclosed that provides all of the usual point of sale terminal functions, but that is entirely field portable. Data pertinent to each purchase can be input to the terminal via a keyboard assembly, a touch-screen display or a signature-capture screen assembly, or via an antenna and radio link from an associated bar code scanner. Data may be communicated at any time to a remote host computer, also via a separate antenna and radio link. The communication links with the host computer and the bar code scanner operate independently and simultaneously, using mutually compatible modulation schemes such as a spread spectrum scheme for the host computer link and a narrowband or spread spectrum scheme for the bar code scanner link. The terminal thereby functions as a portable repeater or node in a data communications network.
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3 Claims
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1. A portable point of sale terminal comprising:
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a hand-carryable housing having a front face with a recess formed therein; a display mounted on the front face of the housing; a plurality of keyboards, leach keyboard being sized to be removably received individually in the recess in the front face of the housing; a power source located within the housing; and an electromagnetic transceiver located within the housing, for transmitting and receiving data over the air to an from a remote device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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