Store system

• US 7,512,546 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2003
• Issued: 03/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Iijima, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Zeender; F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Haider; Fawaad
• Application Number:
  US10/390,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20030163377A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,205 Days
• Field of Search: 705/16, 705/17, 705/18, 705/21, 235/382, 235/2, 235/380, 235/472.01, 379/111, 379/88.01
• US Class Current: 705/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• 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: G07G 1/14 Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit data transmission in general H04L; telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station H04Q9/00

Abstract

A store system comprises: store controller 21 incorporating programs for executing sales and sales management tasks; display 27 for displaying a screen for the execution of a task specified by each of the programs; first input means for inputting data to store controller 21 based on an instruction displayed on the screen produced on the display 27; and second input means for inputting handwritten or voice memo information to store controller 21. Store controller 21 requests an operator to select key information to be appended to the memo information when the operator inputs the memo information via the second input means, and stores the memo information, together with the appended key information, in a storage device within the system.

Claims

1. A store system comprising:

a store controller including software for communication from a first operator to a second operator, for communication from said second operator to said first operator, and for executing sales and sales management tasks;

a display for displaying a screen for the execution of a task specified by said software;

first input means for inputting data to said store controller in accordance with an instruction displayed on the screen produced on said display; and

second input means for inputting memo information to said store controller, wherein said memo information is handwritten memo information, wherein said handwritten memo information is inputted directly to said store controller without key stroke,

wherein said store controller further includes;

first software for requesting said first operator to select key information to be appended to said memo information as a search key when said first operator inputs said memo information via said second input means, and for storing said memo information, together with said appended key information and an employee code of said first operator, in a storage device within said system; and

second software for automatically searching said storage device with said key information as a search key when said second operator inputs data which corresponds to said key information, via said first input means, according to said instruction displayed on said screen during the execution of said task, and for displaying searched memo information on said display,

wherein said key information includes at least one code selected from among an employee code of a destination employee of said memo information, a task code, and a product code,

wherein said first and second operators operate in staggered shifts in a store.