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Client device using a markup language to control a periphery device via a point-of-sale printer

  • US 9,495,121 B2
  • Filed: 12/30/2015
  • Issued: 11/15/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A point-of-sale printer for a point-of-sale (POS) system, the point-of-sale printer comprising:

  • a first connector configured to connect the point-of-sale printer to a device responsive to device-control commands, the device being external to the point-of-sale printer;

    a second connector configured to communicate with a terminal, to receive a markup language request from the terminal, and to send a markup language response to the terminal, the terminal being external to the point-of-sale printer;

    a controller configured to interpret the markup language request received from the terminal, and to control the device using appropriate device-control commands to execute the interpreted markup language request, the point-of-sale printer being further configured to encode any response from the device as a markup language response and to send the markup language response to the terminal;

    wherein the device-control commands are not a markup language.

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