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Point-Of-Sale (POS) direct support of self-checkout

  • US 9,454,757 B2
  • Filed: 12/22/2011
  • Issued: 09/27/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for dynamically switching a Self-Checkout (SCO) station between a self-service mode of operation conducted by a customer and an assisted mode of operation conducted by a cashier, the method programmed in a non-transitory processor-readable medium as executable instructions that are executed by one or more hardware processors configured to execute the method, comprising:

  • creating, by the one or more hardware processors, a first interface associated with a first mode of operation for the SCO station;

    associating, by the one or more hardware processors, the first interface with a first workflow for first actions to perform in response to first selections made on the first interface during the first mode of operation, the first mode of operation is a customer-driven SCO station operations;

    creating, by the one or more hardware processors, a second interface associated with a second mode of operation for the SCO station, wherein the SCO station configured to identify and process one of the first and second modes of operations during startup of the SCO station based on configuration settings for the SCO station;

    associating, by the one or more hardware processors, the second interface with a second workflow for second actions to perform in response to second selections made on the second interface during the second mode of operation, the second mode of operation is a cashier-driven customer checkout operations for the SCO station; and

    porting, by the one or more hardware processors, the first and second interfaces and the first and second workflows to the SCO station, and dynamically switching, by the SCO station, between the first and second workflows for the customer-driven SCO station operations when the SCO station is operated by the customer for the first mode of operation as the self-service mode of operation and the cashier-driven customer checkout operations when the SCO station is operated by the cashier for the second mode of operation as the assisted mode of operation.

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