System and method for processing orders

• US 9,626,671 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2014
• Issued: 04/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vendsy, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Vendsy, Inc.
• Inventors: Kamvysselis, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Iwarere, Seye
• Application Number:
  US14/451,833
• Publication Number:
  US 20150332243A1
• Time in Patent Office: 987 Days
• Field of Search: 705 24, 705 2641, 715744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1243 Variable data printing, e.g. document forms, templates, labels, coupons, advertisements, logos, watermarks, transactional printing, fixed content versioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• 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 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants

Abstract

Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to an order processing system that receives and prints orders and provides an indication of the number of the orders that have been printed and are awaiting acknowledgment by a user.

Claims

1. A printing system comprising:

a printing component configured to print receipts on paper;

a cutting component configured to cut the paper;

a touchscreen display;

a network interface;

one or more processors in communication with the touchscreen display and the network interface; and

a memory containing instructions executable by the one or more processors, wherein the instructions comprise;

an identification of a first set of one or more products selected by a first user via a device separate from the printing system and received via the network interface,

printing a description of the first set of one or more products and activating the cutting component to physically cut the paper so that the printed description of the first set of one or more products is removably attached to a previously-printed description of a previous set of one or more products whose identification was received via the network interface,

in response to printing the description of the first set of one or more products, (a) incrementing a value based on the number of previously printed receipts and (b) displaying the incremented value on the touchscreen display,

determining whether a second user has touched the touchscreen display, and

in response to determining that a second user touched the touchscreen display, decrementing said value and displaying the decremented value on the touchscreen display.

2. The printing system of claim 1 wherein determining whether the second user has touched the touchscreen display comprises determining whether the second user touched the displayed incremented value.

3. The printing system of claim 1 wherein the instructions further comprise displaying a button on the touch-screen display and wherein determining whether the second user has touched the touchscreen display comprises determining whether the second user touched the displayed button.

4. The printing system of claim 1 wherein the instructions further comprise receiving the location of the first user and printing the location with the description of the one or more products.

5. The printing system of claim 1 wherein the instructions further comprise automatically decrementing and displaying the value if the second user is not determined to have touched the touchscreen within a predetermined amount of time after the description of the one or more products has been printed.

6. The printing system of claim 1 wherein the instructions further comprise displaying an acceptance button and a rejection button on the touchscreen display, and wherein determining whether the second user has touched the touchscreen display comprises determining whether the second user touched at least one of the acceptance button or the rejection button.

7. The printing system of claim 1 wherein the instructions further comprise displaying the description of the one or more products on the touchscreen display and permitting the second user to change the one or more products.