CASH REGISTERING APPARATUSING APPARATUS, POINT SERVER AND CASH REGISTRATION METHOD

• US 20140117088A1
• Filed: 10/29/2013
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Terabayashi, Makiko
• Application Number:
  US14/065,507
• Publication Number:
  US 20140117088A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/06 Private payment circuits, e.g. involving electronic currency used among participants of a common payment scheme
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/22 in combination with an identity check of the pass holder

Abstract

In accordance with an embodiment, a cash registering apparatus comprises an input/output apparatus configured to input or output information; a communication interface configured to carry out communication with an external apparatus; a first reading section configured to read a first ID from a storage medium in which the first ID is stored and output a second ID which is fixedly assigned to the first ID based on the first ID; and a control section configured to receive accumulated points corresponding to the second ID from a point server in which accumulated points are stored for each second ID and carry out a checkout processing based on the accumulated points.

Claims

1. A cash registering apparatus, comprising:

an input/output apparatus configured to input or output information;

a communication interface configured to carry out communication with an external apparatus;

a first reading section configured to read a first ID from a storage medium in which the first ID is stored and output a second ID which is fixedly assigned to the first ID based on the first ID; and

a control section configured to receive accumulated points corresponding to the second ID from a point server in which accumulated points are stored for each second ID and carry out a checkout processing based on the accumulated points.

2. The cash registering apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second reading section configured to read the first ID from the storage medium;

wherein

if it is selected to settle with points from the input/output apparatus, the control section reads the first ID using the second reading section and converts the first ID to the second ID, receives accumulated points corresponding to the second ID from a point server in which the accumulated points are stored for each second ID, and carries out a checkout processing based on the accumulated points, and

if it is selected to settle based on the first ID but not the second ID from the input/output apparatus, the control section reads the first ID using the second reading section and carries out a checkout processing based on the first ID.

3. The cash registering apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the storage medium is capable of settling a traffic fare.

4. A point server, comprising:

a communication interface configured to carry out communication with an external apparatus; and

a control section configured to read accumulated points corresponding to a second ID from a customer database in which accumulated points are stored for each second ID and send the read accumulated points to a cash registering apparatus in a case where the second ID is received from the cash registering apparatus comprising a first reading section for reading a first ID from a storage medium in which the first ID is stored and outputting the second ID which is fixedly assigned to the first ID based on the first ID.

5. The point server according to claim 4, wherein

the storage medium is capable of settling a traffic fare.

6. A cash registration method, comprising:

reading a first ID from a storage medium in which the first ID is stored;

calculating a second ID which is fixedly assigned to the first ID based on the first ID;

receiving accumulated points corresponding to the second ID from a point server in which accumulated points are stored for each second ID; and

carrying out a checkout processing based on the accumulated points.