Cloud-based platform integrating point of sale devices of different types and/or formats

• US 9,595,061 B1
• Filed: 11/25/2015
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Ryan, Jeffrey Stanford
• Primary Examiner(s): Refai, Ramsey
• Application Number:
  US14/952,310
• Time in Patent Office: 475 Days
• Field of Search: 705/16, 709/246, 707/756
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• 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 20/405 Establishing or using transaction specific rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A device may receive information regarding a product order via a web portal. The product order may relate to a take-out or delivery of a food product. The device may identify a store location associated with fulfilling the product order. The device may select a store configuration, from a set of store configurations associated with a set of store locations, for the store location associated with fulfilling the product order based on identifying the store location. The device may perform, based on information associated with the particular type of POS device, one or more data conversions on data identifying the product order to generate a converted product order. The converted product order may be associated with a format compatible with the particular type of POS device. The device may store the converted product order in a queue associated with the store location.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

one or more processors to;

receive information regarding a product order via a web portal,

the product order relating to a take-out or delivery of a food product, and

the product order being associated with a particular order format associated with the web portal;

identify a store location associated with fulfilling the product order,

the store location utilizing a particular type of point of sale (POS) device for managing product orders;

select a store configuration, from a set of store configurations associated with a set of store locations, for the store location associated with fulfilling the product order based on identifying the store location,

the store configuration specifying information associated with the particular type of POS device;

determine, based on the information associated with the particular type of POS device, a format compatible with the particular type of POS device;

select, based on the format compatible with the particular type of POS device, a data conversion module, associated with the particular type of POS device, from a plurality of data conversion modules accessible to the device,

each of the plurality of data conversion modules being associated with converting information to an information format associated with a respective type of POS;

perform, using the data conversion module associated with the particular type of POS device, one or more data conversions on data identifying the product order to generate a converted product order;

store the converted product order in a queue dedicated for a POS device of the store location;

receive update information regarding the food product being offered for sale via the web portal;

perform, by reusing the data conversion module associated with the particular type of POS device, one or more data conversions on the update information to generate converted update information; and

provide the converted update information to update the web portal.

2. The device of claim 1, where the one or more processors are further to:

cause the converted product order to be provided from the queue to the POS device.

3. The device of claim 2, where the one or more processors, when causing the converted product order to be provided from the queue to the POS device, are to:

receive, from a POS device agent of the POS device, a query,

the query relating to information stored in the queue; and

provide the converted product order from the queue based on storing the converted product order in the queue and receiving the query.

4. The device of claim 2, where the one or more processors, when causing the converted product order to be provided from the queue to the POS device, are to:

push the converted product order from the queue toward the POS device based on storing the converted product order in the queue.

5. The device of claim 1,

where the one or more processors are further to:

establish a plurality of queues,

where the plurality of queues correspond to a plurality of POS devices,

where the plurality of POS devices include the POS device, and

 

where the plurality of queues include the queue.

6. The device of claim 1, where the one or more processors are further to:

establish the queue; and

provide the converted product order from the queue to the POS device based on storing the converted product order in the queue.

7. The device of claim 1, where the one or more processors are further to:

determine that the queue is not instantiated for the POS device;

generate the queue based on determining that the queue is not instantiated for the POS device,

the queue being associated with a data center; and

provide the converted product order from the queue to the data center based on storing the converted product order in the queue,

the data center being associated with routing the converted product order to the POS device.

8. The device of claim 1,

where the one or more processors are further to:

establish a plurality of queues,

the plurality of queues including at least two of;

a first queue uniquely corresponding to a particular POS device of a plurality of POS devices,

a second queue corresponding to two or more POS devices of the plurality of POS devices, or

a third queue corresponding to a data center associated with two or more POS devices of the plurality of POS devices,

where the queue is the first queue, and

where the POS device is the particular POS device.

9. A computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

receive a message identifying a product order via a web portal,

the product order being intended for fulfillment by a store location,

the store location being associated with a point of sale (POS) device, and

the store location being one of a plurality of store locations associated with two or more types of POS devices that utilize corresponding two or more different information formats;

determine, for the message, the store location, of the plurality of store locations, for which the message is intended;

determine, for the store location, an information format, of the two or more different information formats, with which the POS device of the store location is compatible;

select, based on the information format compatible with the POS device, a data conversion module, associated with the POS device, from a plurality of data conversion modules accessible to the one or more processors,

each of the plurality of data conversion modules being associated with converting information to a respective information format associated with a respective type of POS;

convert, using the data conversion module associated with the POS device, the message to the information format;

store the converted message in a queue dedicated for the POS device;

receive update information regarding a product being offered for sale via the web portal;

perform, by reusing the data conversion module associated with the POS device, one or more data conversions on the update information to generate converted update information; and

provide the converted update information to a device responsible for updating the web portal.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, where the queue is an ActiveMQ queue.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, where the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:

provide the converted message from the queue toward the store location via at least one of;

a transmission control protocol,

a hypertext transfer protocol,

a hypertext transfer protocol secure, or

a Java message service.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine the store location, cause the one or more processors to:

determine the store location based on information, included in the message, that identifies the store location.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to determine the information format, cause the one or more processors to:

identify a POS device type being utilized at the store location; and

determine the information format based on the POS device type.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 9, where the message is received via an application programming interface layer associated with a Hybris data hub.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 9,

where the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

convert the message from a first information format associated with a front end server to a second information format associated with a real-time integration (RTI) server,

the front end server being associated with a web platform via which a user may select the product order; and

where the one or more instructions, that cause the one or more processors to convert the message to the information format, cause the one or more processors to;

convert the message from the second information format to the information format.

16. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a device, a product order via a web portal,

the product order being associated with a particular order format associated with the web portal;

identifying, by the device, a store location associated with fulfilling the product order,

the store location utilizing a particular type of point of sale (POS) device for managing product orders;

selecting, by the device, a store configuration, from a set of store configurations associated with a set of store locations, for the store location associated with fulfilling the product order based on identifying the store location,

the store configuration specifying information associated with the particular type of POS device;

determining, by the device and based on the information associated with the particular type of POS device, a format compatible with the particular type of POS device;

selecting, by the device, based on the format compatible with the particular type of POS device, a data conversion module, associated with the particular type of POS device, from a plurality of data conversion modules accessible to the device,

each of the plurality of data conversion modules being associated with converting information to an information format associated with a respective type of POS;

converting, by the device and using the data conversion module associated with the particular type of POS device, the product order into a converted product order;

storing, by the device, the converted product order in a queue dedicated for a POS device of the store location;

receiving, by the device, update information regarding a product being offered for sale via the web portal;

performing, by the device and by reusing the data conversion module associated with the particular type of POS device, one or more data conversions on the update information to generate converted update information; and

providing, by the device, the converted update information to another device responsible for updating the web portal.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

determining that the queue is not established for the POS device after identifying the store location; and

establishing the queue for the POS device based on determining that the queue is not established for the POS device.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

periodically removing one or more queues from a plurality of queues associated with a plurality of store locations,

the plurality of queues including the queue.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

providing, to the POS device, information identifying a network address of the queue,

the POS device being associated with utilizing the network address to obtain the converted product order from the queue.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

providing the converted product order from the queue to the POS device.