Method of displaying purchase data and goods registration system

• US 5,864,825 A
• Filed: 12/07/1995
• Issued: 01/26/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Matsumori, Kunihiko, Kobayashi, Atushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tkacs, Stephen R.
• Application Number:
  US08/568,689
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• Field of Search: 395/216, 395/217, 395/221, 395/224, 395/225, 395/222, 395/201, 235/375, 235/376, 235/377, 235/378, 235/379, 235/380, 235/381, 235/382, 235/383, 235/58 CW, 364/705.02, 364/709.04, 364/710.04
• US Class Current: 705/24
• 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: G06Q 20/204 comprising interface for record bearing medium or carrier for electronic funds transfer or payment credit
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4093 Monitoring of device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0036 Checkout procedures
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/12 electronically operated digital data processing aspects G06Q20/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 5/00 Receipt-giving machines cash registers giving receipts G07G1/00

Abstract

The past purchase data of the customers stored in a point-of-sales data management system, i.e., stored in a POS system are read out, and are classified and totalized depending upon designated periods or designated articles, and the classified and totalized data are output to terminal equipment of the POS system.

Claims

1. A goods registration system which executes a goods registration processing based upon goods data that are input and stores in a storage unit the transaction data of said goods registration processing, comprising:

a transaction data storage unit in which past transactions data of customers are stored customer by customer;

an input unit for inputting data for identifying the customers;

a retrieval unit for retrieving the past transactions data corresponding to the identifying data input from said input unit, said retrieval unit having a first input unit for inputting at least one designated article and a second input unit for inputting at least one designated period;

a totalizing unit for totalizing the retrieved past transactions data corresponding to said at least one designated period and said at least one article; and

an output unit for outputting the totalized past transactions.

2. A POS system comprising:

at least one terminal equipment having at least an input means;

an output means;

a storage means for storing the goods purchase history data of the customers;

a retrieval means for retrieving and reading the purchase history data of the customers from said storage means based upon customer identification data input from said input means, said retrieval means having a first input unit for inputting at least one designated article and a second input unit for inputting at least one designated period; and

an editing means for editing the purchase history data read out by said retrieval means corresponding to said at least one designated period and at least one designated article,

wherein the purchase history data that are edited by said editing means are output from said output means.

3. A POS system as set forth in claim 2, wherein said output means is included in a POS terminal equipment.

4. A POS system as set forth in claim 2, wherein said storage means is an IC card.

5. A POS system as set forth in claim 2, wherein said retrieval means retrieves and totalizes information for a designated term.

6. A POS system as set forth in claim 2, wherein said retrieval means retrieves, totalizes and outputs transaction data for each day.

7. A POS system as set forth in claim 2, wherein said storage means stores or collects the purchase history data when each of the customers makes a purchase.

8. A POS system comprising:

terminal equipment having at least an input means;

an output means;

a host unit;

a storage means for storing the goods purchase history data of the customers;

a retrieval means for retrieving the purchase history data of the customers from said storage means based upon customer identification data input from said input device, and reading the purchase history data of the customers, said retrieval means having a first input unit for inputting at least one designated article and a second input unit for inputting at least one designated period; and

an editing means for editing the purchase history data read out by said retrieval means corresponding to said at least one designated period and at least one designated article,

wherein the purchase history data that are edited by said editing means are output from said output means.

9. A POS system as set forth in claim 8, wherein said storage means stores or collects the purchase history data when each of the customers makes a purchase.

10. A POS terminal equipment comprising at least an input means and an output means and being connected to a host unit to transmit the data related to the purchased goods to said host unit, wherein said input means includes a first input unit for inputting at least one designated article and a second input unit for inputting at least one designated period, wherein the purchase history data of the customer are retrieved and read out from a storage means in the host unit that stores the goods purchase history data of the customers based upon customer identification data input through said input means, said purchase history data that are read out are edited based upon conditions input through said input means corresponding to said at least one designated period and at least one designated article, and the edited purchase history data edited are output from said output means.

11. A POS system as set forth in claim 10, wherein said storage means stores or collects the purchase history data when each of the customers makes a purchase.

12. A POS system comprising:

terminal equipment having at least an input means and an output means;

a host unit;

a storage means for storing, in said host unit, the goods purchase history data of the customers;

a retrieval means for retrieving the purchase history data of the customers from said storage means based upon customer identification data input from said input means, and reading the purchase history data of the customers onto said terminal equipment, said retrieval means having a first input unit for inputting at least one designated article and a second input unit for inputting at least one designated period; and

an editing means for editing the purchase history data read out by said retrieval means based upon conditions input through said input means corresponding to said at least one designated period and at least one designated article,

wherein the purchase history data that are edited by said editing means are output from said output means.

13. A POS terminal equipment comprising at least an input means and an output means, further comprising:

it retrieval means for retrieving and reading the purchase history data of the customer from a storage means that stores the goods purchase history data of the customers based upon a customer identification data input through said input means, said retrieval means having a first input unit for inputting at least one designated article and a second input unit for inputting at least one designated period; and

an editing means for editing the purchase history data that are read out by said retrieval means corresponding to said at least one designated period and at least one designated article;

wherein the purchase history data edited by said editing means are output from said output means.

14. A POS terminal equipment having at least an input means and an output means, said input means including a first input unit for inputting at least one designated article and a second input unit for inputting at least one designated period, and further comprising:

a card-reading means for reading IC cards which are possessed by the customers and in which are stored goods purchase history data of the customers; and

an editing means for editing the purchase history data read out from said IC cards;

corresponding to said at least one designated period and at least one designated article;

wherein the purchase history data edited by said editing means are output from said output means.

15. A method of displaying purchase data, comprising steps of:

reading out the purchase data of customers stored in a POS (point-of sales data management) system;

inputting at least one designated article;

inputting at least one designated period;

totalizing the past purchase data corresponding to said at least one designated period and at least one designated article; and

outputting totalized data to a terminal equipment of said POS system.

16. A method of displaying purchase data, comprising the steps of:

storing the purchase data of customers in a data base of a host computer;

inputting at least one designated article;

inputting at least one designated period;

editing inputted data, wherein said step of editing includes the step of editing corresponding to said at least one designated period and at least one designated article; and

printing a selected purchase data of the customers at one time by using a POS system, which comprises a POS controller, said host computer, and an input device.

17. A method of displaying purchase data, comprising the steps of:

storing the purchase data in IC cards of customers;

inputting at least one designated article;

inputting at least one designated period;

editing the purchase data of the customers from the IC cards, wherein said step of editing includes the step of editing corresponding to said at least one designated period and at least one designated article; and

printing purchase history data of the customers at one time by using a POS system which comprises a POS controller, an IC card reader and a printer.

18. A method of displaying purchase data as set forth in claim 17, wherein said step of storing includes the step of storing or collecting the purchase history data when each of the customers makes a purchase.