Wireless order and delivery system
First Claim
1. A store system utilized for a customer to purchase desired goods in a store, comprising:
- an ordering device, carried and operated by the customer, inputting data of desired goods among the goods displayed in a goods display area;
a cash register settling payment of the inputted goods and issuing a receipt for payment for the goods upon which ID information for identifying the customer is printed; and
a goods indicator, provided in a goods storage for stocking the goods, indicating the goods inputted by said ordering device to a store clerk in charge, wherein said ordering device wirelessly and immediately upon input transmits the data of the inputted goods to said goods indicator and said ID information to said goods indicator, said goods indicator outputs the goods data and said ID information, the goods are promptly prepared in accordance with the goods data by a store clerk upon receipt of the goods data, and the goods are provided to the customer from the goods storage in the store after the customer displays the receipt for payment which the ID information is printed, and wherein the total amount of money for goods is calculated by the ordering device and sent to the cash register.
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Abstract
A store system has a goods display area for displaying samples of goods, and a goods storage for stocking the goods to be handed, whereby a waiting time till the goods are received is reduced. A customer holds a goods input device. The goods storage is provided with a goods indicator. The customer inputs data about the want-to-get goods through the goods input device. The goods data inputted are wirelessly transmitted to the goods indicator in the goods storage. The goods indicator indicates a store clerk to immediately prepare the goods. It is therefore feasible to save a labor to carry the goods to the cash register and prepare the goods per input of the goods. Accordingly, the waiting time till the goods are received can be reduced.
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8 Claims
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1. A store system utilized for a customer to purchase desired goods in a store, comprising:
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an ordering device, carried and operated by the customer, inputting data of desired goods among the goods displayed in a goods display area;
a cash register settling payment of the inputted goods and issuing a receipt for payment for the goods upon which ID information for identifying the customer is printed; and
a goods indicator, provided in a goods storage for stocking the goods, indicating the goods inputted by said ordering device to a store clerk in charge, wherein said ordering device wirelessly and immediately upon input transmits the data of the inputted goods to said goods indicator and said ID information to said goods indicator, said goods indicator outputs the goods data and said ID information, the goods are promptly prepared in accordance with the goods data by a store clerk upon receipt of the goods data, and the goods are provided to the customer from the goods storage in the store after the customer displays the receipt for payment which the ID information is printed, and wherein the total amount of money for goods is calculated by the ordering device and sent to the cash register. - View Dependent Claims (2)
wherein said ordering device includes a memory storing the data of said inputted goods and a transferring unit directly transferring contents in said memory to said cash register.
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3. A store system utilized for a customer to purchase desired goods in a store, comprising:
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an ordering device inputting data of desired goods among the goods displayed in a good display area in said store;
a cash register settling payment of the inputted goods and issuing a receipt for payment for the goods; and
a goods indicator, provided in a goods storage for stocking the goods, indicating the inputted goods to a store clerk in charge, wherein said ordering device comprises a memory storing the data of said inputted goods and a transferring unit directly transferring said inputted data in said memory to said cash register, and wherein said ordering device wirelessly and immediately upon input transmits the data of the inputted goods to said goods indicator, said goods indicator outputs the goods data, the goods are promptly prepared in accordance with the goods data by a store clerk upon receipt of the goods data, and the goods are provided to the customer from the goods storage in the store after the customer displays the receipt for payment, and wherein said cash register includes;
a data receiving unit for directly receiving said inputted and transferred data from said ordering device associated with said transferring unit and a processor for processing said settling based on said received data, and wherein the total amount of money for goods is calculated by the ordering device and sent to the cash register.
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4. A store system utilized for a customer to purchase desired goods in a store, comprising:
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an ordering device inputting data of desired goods among the goods displayed in a good display area in said store and storing said inputted data;
a cash register settling a payment of the inputted goods; and
a goods indicator, provided in a goods storage for stocking the goods, indicating the inputted goods to a store clerk in charge, wherein said cash register, after executing a payment settling process based on the goods data in said ordering device, issues an exchange sheet upon which ID information for identifying the customer is printed and for exchange for the goods from said goods storage and wherein the goods are provided to the customer from a goods storage in the store after the customer displays the exchange sheet upon which the ID information is printed, wherein said ordering device wirelessly and immediately upon input transmits the data of the inputted goods and said ID information to said goods indicator, said goods indicator outputs the goods data and said ID information, the goods are promptly prepared in accordance with the goods data by a store clerk upon receipt of the goods data, and wherein the total amount of money for goods is calculated by the ordering device and sent to the cash register.
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5. An order and delivery method comprising:
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inputting data of desired goods to an ordering device carried and operated by a customer and sending said inputted data and ID information for identifying the customer from said ordering device to a goods indicator included in a goods storage storing a plurality of goods;
storing each of inputted goods data into a memory provided in said ordering device;
calculating a total amount of money for goods stored in said memory;
sending said calculated total and the terminal ID information from said ordering device to a cash register;
settling a payment of goods based on said calculated data sent from said ordering device;
issuing a receipt for payment for the goods upon which the ID information is printed using a cash register; and
delivering said ordered goods picked up in said goods storage to said customer, wherein the goods are provided to the customer from said goods storage in the store after the customer displays the receipt for payment upon which the ID information is printed, and wherein said ordering device wirelessly and immediately upon input transmits the data of the inputted goods to said goods indicator, said goods indicator outputs the goods data, and the goods are promptly prepared in accordance with the goods data by a store clerk upon receipt of the goods data. - View Dependent Claims (6)
said settling comprises;
electrically connecting a cash register and said ordering device carried by said customer.
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7. An ordering device to be carried by a customer, comprising:
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input means for inputting goods data and ID information;
a transmitter transmitting goods data and said ID information to identify the customer to a goods indicator when said goods data is inputted to said ordering device;
a memory storing each of the inputted goods data; and
a key operable by said customer to initiate transmitting said stored goods data and said ID information by said ordering device to a cash register, said ordering device wirelessly and immediately upon input transmits the data of the inputted goods and said ID information to a goods indicator, said goods indicator outputs the goods data and said ID information, the goods are promptly prepared in accordance with the goods data by a store clerk upon receipt of the goods data, and the goods are provided to the customer from the goods storage in the store after the customer displays a receipt for payment upon which the ID information is printed by said cash register.
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8. An order and delivery method comprising:
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sending inputted goods data and terminal ID information from an ordering device to a goods indicator;
displaying goods data received from said ordering device onto the goods indicator;
storing each of inputted goods data into a memory provided in said ordering device;
calculating total amount of money for goods stored in said memory;
sending said calculated total and the terminal ID information from said ordering device to a cash register;
settling a payment of goods based on said calculated data sent from said ordering device;
issuing a receipt for said payment which terminal ID information is printed; and
providing goods in which the customer purchased when the customer displayed said receipt to a store clerk, and wherein said ordering device wirelessly and immediately upon input transmits the data of the inputted goods to said goods indicator, said goods indicator outputs the goods data, the goods are promptly prepared in accordance with the goods data by a store clerk upon receipt of the goods data, and the goods are provided to the customer from the goods storage in the store after the customer displays the receipt for payment.
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