Control system, control method of a control system, and recording device

• US 9,342,264 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2013
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Takasu, Kazuhiro, Tsutsumi, Koichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Huo Long
• Application Number:
  US14/375,051
• Publication Number:
  US 20150002896A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,173 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1209 resulting in adapted or bridged legacy communication protocols, e.g. emulation, protocol extension
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1228 Printing driverless or using generic drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1279 Controller construction, e.g. aspects of the interface hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• 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 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0045 with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader
• 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 control system 1 has an input device that reads and outputs input information, a printer 11 connected to the input device, and a tablet device 10 connected to the printer 11. When input information is output from the input device, the printer 11 identifies the input device of the input source, and outputs the input information to the tablet device 10.

Claims

1. A control system comprising:

a first input device configured to read and output first transaction information;

a second input device configured to read and output second transaction information;

a recording device storing first and second identification information, configured to receive the fret and second transaction information, add the first and second identification information to the first and second transaction information respectively, and output first and second data related to the first and second transaction information and the first and second identification information respectively;

an information processing device configured to receive the first and second data front ate recording device and download a display file from a server and execute a program embedded in the display file to display the first and second transaction information on first and second field of the information processing device based on the first and second identification information respectively;

wherein;

the information processing device runs a point-of-sale (POS) application configured to processed the first and second data related to the first and second transaction information based on the first and second identification information respectively; and

the recording device has;

an input unit that connects to the first sand second input devices and receives the first and second transaction information;

a control unit configured to;

run a device driver to generate the first and second data based on the first and second transaction information respectively, and run a filter driver to acquire the first and second identification information identifying the first and second input devices that output the first and second data respectively, and

add the acquired first and second identification information to the first and second data respectively;

an output unit configured to output the first and second data and the first and second identification information; and

a print unit that prints controlled by the information processing device.

2. The control system described in claim 1, the server connected to the information. processing device through a network;

the information processing device is configured to;

access the server;

acquire first and second display files that displays information based on the first and second data respectively;

display a user interface based on the first and second display files using a web browser;

identify the first and second input devices based on the identification information; and

execute by running a program embedded in the display file, the program identifies the first and second input devices based on the identification information and the program executes a process appropriate to the first and second input devices.

3. The control system described in claim 1, wherein

the first and second input devices are a barcode seamier and a card reader respectively.

4. The control system described in claim 1, wherein the filter device acquired the first and second data satisfying a condition specified by the POS application after the first and second data is produced by the device driver.

5. The control system described in claim 1, wherein

the server stores the display file that includes third and fourth identification information, the third identification information being related to the first identification information, the fourth identification information being related to the second identification information, the program being executed by matching the first and second identification information with the third and fourth identification information respectively.

6. A control method of a control system including a first and second input devices, a recording device connected to the fit and second input devices, an information processing device connected to the recording device, the control method comprising:

reading first and second transaction information to the first and second input devices respectively;

outputting the first and second transaction information from the first and second input devices to an input unit of the recording device respectively;

running a device driver unit of the recording device to generate first and second data based on the first and second transaction information respectively;

running a filter driver of the control unit f the recording device to acquire first and second identification information and identifying the first and second input devices by the recording device, the first and second identification information being registered in the recording device;

running a filter driver of the control unit of the recording device to acquire first and second identification information and identifying the first and second input devices by the recording device, the first and second identification information being registered in the recording device;

adding the first and second identification information for the first and second input devices to the first and second data respectively related to the first and second transaction information by the recording device after the identifying the first and second input devices;

outputting the first and second data and the first and second identification information to the information processing device from the recording device;

running a point-of-sale (POS) application by the information processing device to process the first and second data related to the first and second transaction information based on the first and second identification information respectively after outputting the first and second data to the information processing device;

downloading a display file from a server and execute a program embedded in the display file; and

displaying first and second information on first and second fields of the information processing device respectively using the program, the first and second information being related to the first and second transaction information respectively, the first and second fields being determined based on the first and second identification information respectively,

wherein the recording device includes a print unit that prints controlled by the information processing device.

7. The control method of a control system described in claim 6, further comprising:

identifying the first and second input devices based on the first and second identification information respectively by the information processing device; and

processing the first and second data appropriately to the first and second input devices respectively by the information processing device after the identifying the first and second input device by the information processing device.

8. The control method of a control system described in claim 6 further comprising:

outputting first and second data processed by the POS application to the recording device; and

printing from the recording device, the first and second data processed by the POS application.