Receipt management system

• US 8,392,258 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2010
• Issued: 03/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Frontech Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Kurihara, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): ZARE, SCOTT A
• Application Number:
  US12/754,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20100274685A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,064 Days
• Field of Search: 705/16, 705/30
• US Class Current: 705/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

A receipt management system receives receipt data including biometric data which is issued when a product is purchased at a store, and judges whether or not biometric data that coincides with an employee'"'"'s biometric data is registered in an employee management table of a company.

Claims

1. A receipt management system including a business system set up in a store, an intermediation server set up in a management company, and a receipt processing system set up in a member company, wherein

the business system comprises:

a POS register which creates receipt data in accordance with a purchasing of a product at the store and has the product purchaser select a company to which the product purchaser belongs from a company list including a plurality of companies registered as members of the receipt management system;

a biometric data reading unit which reads biometric data of the product purchaser; and

an in-store management server which combines a company ID corresponding to the company selected by the product purchaser, the created receipt data, and the read biometric data as one datum, and transmits the one datum to the intermediation server as receipt data including biometric data, wherein

the intermediation server searches a registered company management table having company IDs and IP addresses by using as a key the company ID contained in the receipt data including biometric data when the receipt data including biometric data is received from the business system, and determines that an IP address corresponding to a found company ID is a destination of the received receipt data including biometric data, and

the intermediation server transfers the received receipt data including biometric data to the determined destination, and wherein

the receipt processing system is set up in each of the plurality of companies, and

the receipt processing system comprises;

an in-company management server which searches an employee management table having employee IDs and biometric data by using as a key the biometric data contained in the receipt data including biometric data when the receipt data including biometric data is received from the intermediation server, and judges, in accordance with a result of the search, whether or not biometric data that coincides with the biometric data used as a key is registered in the employee management table.

2. A receipt management system including a business system set up in a store, an intermediation server set up in a management company, and a receipt processing system set up in a member company, wherein

the business system comprises:

a POS register which creates receipt data in accordance with a purchasing of a product at the store, which has a product purchaser select a company to which the product purchaser belongs from a company list including a plurality of companies registered as members of the receipt management system, and which has the product purchaser enter an employee ID of a company to which the product purchaser belongs;

a biometric data reading unit which reads biometric data of the product purchaser; and

an in-store management server which combines a company ID corresponding to the company selected by the product purchaser, the entered employee ID, the created receipt data, and the read biometric data as one datum, and transmits the one datum to the intermediation server as receipt data including biometric data, wherein

the intermediation server searches a registered company management table including company IDs and IP addresses by using as a key the company ID contained in the receipt data including biometric data when the receipt data including biometric data is received from the business system, and for determining that an IP address corresponding to a found company ID is a destination of the received receipt data including biometric data, and

the intermediation server transfers the received receipt data including biometric data to the determined destination, and wherein

the receipt processing system is set up in each of the plurality of companies, and

the receipt processing system comprises

an in-company management server which searches an employee management table having employee IDs and biometric data by using as a key the employee ID contained in the receipt data including biometric data when the receipt data including biometric data is received from the intermediation server, and judges, in accordance with a result of the search, whether or not biometric data related to the employee ID used as a key is registered in the employee management table when an employee ID that coincides with the employee ID used as a key is searched for.

3. A receipt management system including a business system connected via a communication line to an external receipt system, the business system set up in a store, the receipt management system comprising:

the business system comprising;

a POS register which creates receipt data in accordance with a purchasing of a product at the store and has a product purchaser select a company to which the product purchaser belongs from a company list, the company list including a plurality of companies registered as members of the receipt management system;

a biometric data reading unit which reads biometric data of the product purchaser; and

an in-store management server which combines a company ID corresponding to the company selected by the product purchaser, the created receipt data, and the read biometric data as one datum, and transmits the one datum to the external receipt system;

the external receipt system comprising;

a plurality of external receipt processing systems set up in each of the plurality of companies registered as members of the receipt management system; and

an intermediation server which searches a registered company management table including company IDs by using as a key the company ID contained in the one datum wherein the one datum is received from the business system, and wherein the intermediation server determines a destination external receipt processing system associated with the received company ID where the datum is to be sent.