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5526409 Adaptive communication system within a transaction card network  
The present invention is a point-of-presence device installed in a merchant establishment as an interface between a retail information system and a transaction card authorization network. By using...
5510979 Data processing system and method for retail stores  
A computer system for entering, processing and recording sales of items is provided, which is especially suitable for use in retail sales, particularly quick service restaurants. The system...
5500890 Point-of-sale system using multi-threaded transactions and interleaved file transfer  
A dial-up asynchronous communication protocol allowing multiple POS terminals to efficiently multi-thread transactions to a host computer and to interleave mail messages and file transfers while...
5497314 Automated apparatus and method for object recognition at checkout counters  
An automated check-out system for retail stores, such as supermarkets, employing digitized video signals and other means to determine and differentiate individual products, and thereby register the...
5490251 Method and apparatus for transmitting data over a signalling channel in a digital telecommunications network  
A communication system for exchanging information between a remote terminal and a host terminal over a signalling channel of an ISDN network which does not need to establish communication over...
5490060 Passive data collection system for market research data  
A passive data monitor and collection apparatus, and associated method, for obtaining market research data from an automated checkout system of a retail establishment. The apparatus positively...
5466919 Credit/charge card system enabling purchasers to contribute to selected charities  
A method which enables a credit cardholder to make a donation to a cardholder-selected charity any time he makes a purchase using the credit card. The method comprises a credit/charge card which...
5396417 Product distribution equipment and method  
A data collection device and method, particularly for point-of-sale systems used in the sales and rental of merchandise including video records, and more particularly for a revenue-sharing video...
5394336 Fuel dispenser-cash register control console  
A fuel dispenser-cash register control console is provided for simultaneously controlling fuel dispensers and the input key switches on a cash register keyboard so that sales information on each...
5313664 Point of sale system having backup file device  
A file control system includes a master terminal and a backup terminal, a plurality of satellite terminals, a master file and a backup file, and a file controller for each file. The master file...
5299117 Power conserving receiver operation for a remote electronic display system  
An information display system is provided having a transmitter and a plurality of uniquely identified display terminals, each terminal having an IR receiver. Uniquely identified sets of messages...
5256863 In-store universal control system  
The present invention relates to a system for automating data acquisition and processing at a checkstand point-of-sale in a retail outlet. Preferred embodiments include a first local area network...
5255182 Payment card point-of-sale service quality monitoring system, apparatus, and method  
A system for determining the cause of lost, delayed or erroneous responses in a network for authorizing payment card transactions from the point of view of the point-of-sale terminal that forms...
5202825 Transaction control system including portable data terminal and mobile customer service station  
A mobile customer service station includes a console on a wheeled chassis. The console carries and houses a number of components which are used in merchandising operations to conclude customer...
5189607 Method for sending selected data from electronic cash registers to a host unit  
A data transmission device includes a memory for storing a plurality of data consisting of a plurality of sorting areas. The device selectively transmits the data of the sorting area including a...
5179375 Interconnection system for an electronic cash register  
A system for inputting signals to a terminal includes a first interface having an input port, the first interface including a decoder for decoding the signals received at said port for application...
5179697 System for deleting prioritized data stored in second memory after all the data has been successfully transferred to first memory  
A data processing device consists of a first memory and a plurality of second memories. When transferring data to the first memory from the plurality of second memories having transfer orders of...
5153585 Electronic input-display apparatus  
An electronic input-display apparatus, includes a casing having a microprocessor therein, a display device located above the casing and spaced from the casing by a predetermined distance, a...
5128862 Customer operable system for a retail store or fast-food restaurant having plural ordering stations  
An integrated customer self-order microprocessor based system for the placement of orders, the filling of orders and the management of day to day operations in a fast food restaurant setting. The...
5119294 POS terminal group management device with memory for pre-storing different collection data ranges for each POS terminal  
In a transaction processing system including a plurality of POS terminal devices (cash registers), a POS terminal group management device (cluster controller) and a sales management device (store...
5107421 Computer system in which work stations support the basic electronic data process  
A computer system executing business processings is disclosed, in which work stations, which themselves have processing functions, are combined with a host computer. In the host computer is...
5052504 Sales data transmission system  
A sales data transmission system includes a sales data processor such as a scale of the type capable of calculating and displaying a sales price from a unit price and a measured weight, a...
5051899 Data transmission error detection in an electronic cash register system  
A data error-checking system including a transmitting cash register and a receiving cash register, connected to each other in series in a loop formation. Its operation includes the serial transfer...
5018066 System for processing sales data on slips used in restaurants  
A data processing system according to the invention comprises a system controller and a plurality of ECRs connected to the system controller. Each ECR has a keyboard for inputting sales data per...
5010485 Apparatus, system and method for creating credit vouchers usable at point of purchase stations  
Apparatus, system and method are provided for processing charge vouchers against charge card accounts administered by a host institution that issues an approval/disapproval to a merchant for a...
4972463 In-store multiple device communications unit and centralized data system utilizing same  
In a store data communications system, multiple data sources having disparate communications standards are connected with respective device interfaces of a multiple device communications controller...
4949257 Automated merchandising system for computer software  
An automated merchandising system for computer software including a central memory for storing software for sale to customers, interface apparatus for receiving a software select customer choice...
4935608 Card authorization terminal system in which one terminal transmits data to a designated other terminal  
A card authorization terminal in which a plurality of CATs (card authorization terminals) are connected to a data transmission line. At least one of the CATs comprises: a memory from/into which...
4893237 Interconnected sales data registration and payment settlement system  
A sales data registration and payment settlement apparatus includes a number of register terminals for registering sales data of each article to be to be purchased by a customer, and for...
4887209 Electronic cash register system  
An electronic cash register system has an electronic cash register which acts as a master machine and a plurality of electronic cash registers which act as slave machines. The master machine...
4879650 POS register system with combined optical scanner and weighing machine  
A point-of-sale register system includes an electronic cash register connected to a central inventory control unit to serve as a terminal device of a point-of-sale system: an optical scanner, which...
4873631 Point of sale automatic back-up system and method  
A point-of-sale system includes a plurality of terminals in which one of the terminals is selected to be a primary terminal and the remaining terminals are selected to be secondary terminals....
4870577 ECR in which article data stored in a memory is altered according to sales data  
A POS system includes a center file and a file control unit, and a plurality of electronic cash registers each including a memory having a predetermined number of data areas each for storing...
4859838 POS terminal device  
To improve reliability of a POS (point of sales) terminal device, an internal memory umit is further provided in addition to two external memory units having PLU (price look-up) files. Therefore,...
4855908 POS system  
In a POS system including at least one controller and a plurality of POS terminals, the controller includes a price look-up file formed by a price look-up table and a sum table. When the price...
4843546 POS system with means for automatically reconfiguring the center PLU and local files  
A representative one of a plurality of POS terminals is provided with a center PLU file and a local PLU file, and each of the POS terminals is provided with a local PLU buffer which holds a copy of...
4841442 POS system for updating look-up table  
A POS system is made up of a central computer and a plurality of POS terminals. The central computer includes a price look-up (PLU) table and informs the POS terminals of the article data in...
4787037 ECR with data memory structure for transmitting sales data and re-stock data to an external unit  
An electrical cash register is disclosed, which is provided with a numerical data memory in which sales data input from a keyboard are successively accumulated, and also in which commodity data for...
4771382 Master ECR for interrogating the state and data contents of a slave ECR  
An electronic cash register system of the register-in-line type includes a master machine and a plurality of slave machines which communicate with the master machine. A state determination system...
4752875 Electronic cash register with a specialized data capturing function  
An electronic cash register according to the present invention stores price data on commodities inputted through ten keys (12) and department codes inputted through department keys (13) in a buffer...
4727243 Financial transaction system  
A financial transaction system makes use of an automated terminal or terminals in communication with a host computer which is capable of accessing any of a number of institutionalized or private...
4713760 Transaction processing system for separate registration and settlement functions  
A transaction processing system comprises an electronic cash register machine (ECR) and a balance settling machine. The ECR includes a keyboard from which the figures for individual items in one...
4683536 Product sales data processing system for on-line connection to host CPU  
A product sales data processing system includes a plurality of interconnected credit authorization terminals for performing the transmission and reception of data with an outside host computer. One...
4626844 Addressable electronic switch  
An addressable electronic switch which switches power to an electromechanical device upon detection of an individual access code in a serial data stream. The addressable switch is capable of series...
4594664 Cash processing method and system  
A cash processing method is disclosed for aggregating sales data from cash processing units. Each cash processing unit has a coin counter and bill counter for accepting coins and bills received...
4589069 Data input/output system for gasoline stations  
A data input/output system for gasoline stations which has a console arranged in an office cabin and electrically connected to each of a plurality of outdoor fuel dispensers, said console...
4502120 System for data transmission between electronic cash registers  
A subsystem comprises an input device for inputting data, an operation device for operating the data, a memory device for memorizing the data, and a transmitting device for dividing the data into...
4468750 Clustered terminals with writable microcode memories & removable media for applications code & transactions data  
A clustered system of data-entry terminals includes a plurality of physically separate data-entry terminals coupled to a communications link in a cluster. Each of the terminals includes a...
4398250 Electronic cash register mutual transmission system for plurality of cash registers  
In an electronic cash register mutual transmission system, a plurality of electronic cash registers each having a memory for storing total data are electrically connected to each other. A search is...
4360872 Electronic cash register system  
An electronic cash register system having a plurality of electronic cash registers which are connected to a common bus and assignable to a plurality of operators given respective operator codes, at...
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