EP0176072A2 - Système de caisse enregistreuse incorporant une mémoire de données de produits locaux - Google Patents

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EP0176072A2
EP0176072A2 EP85112049A EP85112049A EP0176072A2 EP 0176072 A2 EP0176072 A2 EP 0176072A2 EP 85112049 A EP85112049 A EP 85112049A EP 85112049 A EP85112049 A EP 85112049A EP 0176072 A2 EP0176072 A2 EP 0176072A2
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  • the present invention relates to the field of electronic cash register systems, and in particular relates to such an electronic cash register system in which some of the data relating to goods which are to be sold is available locally at each cash register.
  • This prior art system is structured in this way because an information storage means for storing such a master file which contains information on all the various types of goods which are to be sold using the system is required to have a considerably large capacity, and accordingly is quite high in cost as well as being possibly large in physical size. Therefore, it is not considered to be efficient to store such a master file at each of the individual electronic cash registers, and, in order to reduce the unit price of the electronic cash registers, a single master file is maintained on the master electronic cash register or host computer, thu avoiding duplication of storage.
  • Another problem that has arisen in such a conventional type of multiple electronic cash register system has related to failure thereof. It is inevitable that at some time such a master file should become unusable, either for a relatively short time as because of breakdown of the master electronic cash register or host computer, or for a relatively long time as because of failure of the file storage media itself. In the case of such an event, the attendant at each of the electronic cash registers is required to enter on the keyboard of his or her electronic cash register all the data such as price data and other data for each item of goods which is sold, and not only is the speed of operation drastically reduced but also the entire processing of transactions may become unmanageable.
  • an electronic cash register system for dealing with a set of items of goods, comprising: (a) a means for storing a master file having reference data for the entirety of said set of items of goods; (b) a transfer means; (c) a plurality of electronic cash registers, each comprising: (cl) a means for storing a sub file having reference data for a subset of said set of items of goods; and: (c2) a means for consulting said sub file for reference data for a particular item of goods which is to be dealt with and for, if and only if said sub file does not hold said reference data, obtaining said reference data from said master file via said transfer means; (d) a means for, according to data of goods dealt with, determining a subset of said set of items of goods the members of which are often dealt with; and: (e) a means for updating said sub files kept at said electronic cash registers according to said subset of said set of items of goods determined by said
  • each of the individual electronic cash registers is equipped with its own sub file which holds the reference data for a subset of said set of items of goods which preferably is a subset including those of said set of items of goods which are more frequently to be dealt with, the dealing with items of goods at said individual electronic cash registers can mostly be accomplished locally, without using the transfer means for extracting reference data from the master file.
  • this electronic cash register system can increase the speed of transaction processing during normal operation of the system. Further, this electronic cash register system minimizes the load upon such a transfer means connecting the various electronic cash registers thereof, and accordingly can effectively function by utilizing such a transfer means which is relatively inexpensive and of low transmission capability. Furthermore, because the means at each of the electronic cash registers for storing its sub file is only required to storing the reference data for a subset of said set of items of goods, therefore the capacity of each such means can be much smaller than the capacity of the means for storing the master file which must hold all the reference data for the entirety of said set of items of goods. Accordingly, this electronic cash register system is inexpensive, because the individual electronic cash registers thereof themselves are relatively inexpensive. Further, these individual electronic cash registers themselves can be relatively compact.
  • this electronic cash register system can provide fairly effective transaction processing, because the individual electronic cash registers can still perform extraction of reference data from their local sub files, and, since this represents the majority of data which will be required, no substantial problem need occur for the majority of transactions. Yet further, since the sub files are updated by the means for updating them, the data in these sub files may be kept current and effective.
  • each of said plurality of electronic cash registers further comprises a means for maintaining a total relating to goods dealt with; further comprising a means for forwarding said totals maintained by said electronic cash registers to said determining means.
  • the determining means may usefully employ this information about totals relating to goods dealt with, which has been compiled by the individual electronic cash registers, without having to compile said information itself. This represents an economy of operation.
  • Fig. 1 shows in a very schematic block diagram form said preferred embodiment of the electronic cash register system of the present invention.
  • This electronic cash register system comprises a plurality of electronic cash registers, referred to in the figures as #1, #2, #3, . « in, which are mutually interconnected by a transfer line L.
  • the electronic cash register #1 which will hereinafter be referred to as the master electronic cash register, performs overall control of the electronic cash register system as a whole.
  • the master electronic cash register #1 not only performs the processing of normal transactions in the same way as do the other electronic cash registers #2, #3, ....
  • slave electronic cash registers which hereinafter will be referred to as slave electronic cash registers
  • a host computer may be installed, but according to this shown preferred embodiment a system which is solely comprised of a plurality of master and slave electronic cash registers as shown in the drawing is considered.
  • Fig. 2 shows in schematic block diagrammatical form the construction of a typical one of the slave electronic cash registers #2, i3, ...... #n.
  • This slave electronic cash register comprises a microcomputer 1 as its central element and a keyboard 2 for serving as an input means for said microcomputer 1, and further comprises as output means a display 3 for indicating data visually to the operator and/or the customer and a printer 4 for printing receipts and the like.
  • a transfer device 5 which interfaces between the microcomputer 1 and the transfer line L, and a random access memory unit (RAM) 6 which stores data on goods which are to be sold in the form of files, as will be particularly described hereinafter.
  • the structure of the master electronic cash register #l is substantially the same as that shown in Fig. 2, except that the capacity of the RAM 6 is much larger, for storing more data as will be explained later; alternatively, a backup storage means such as a disk storage device or the like may be provided for said master electronic cash register fl.
  • the keyboard 2 of each of the electronic cash registers comprises a tenkey pad 31, a set 32 of classification keys, a set of function keys 33, and a key switch 34 for mode switch over.
  • a key switch 34 for mode switch over.
  • this data is available in said local RAM 6 of this slave electronic cash register, then it is retrieved; but, if the local RAM 6 of this slave electronic cash register does not contain such data, then the microcomputer 1 sends a signal out via the transfer device 5 and the transfer line L to order this data from the exhaustive data file available on the master electronic cash register #1, and, waits until said data is received. Then, in either case, when the data becomes available, the price of the item of goods is displayed on the display 3, and also a receipt entry is issued from the printer 4. Thereby, so called price look up processing is performed.
  • FIG. 4 there are schematically shown in its subfigure 4(A) a part of the contents of the RAM 6 of the master electronic cash register ⁇ 1 and in its subfigure 4(B) a part of the contents of one of the slave electronic cash registers #2, #3, ...... #n; in this discussion, for the purposes of simplicity of explanation, it will be assumed that the relevant contents of the RAMs 6 of the various slave electronic cash registers f2, #3, — in are identical, but in fact this is not necessarily the case.
  • the part of the contents of the RAM 6 of the master electronic cash register #1 shown in Fig. 4(A) constitutes master files 41 for each of the classifications (DP), while the part of the contents of the RAMs 6 of the slave electronic cash registers #2, #3, & #n shown in Fig. 4(B) constitutes a sub file 42 for each of the classifications (DP).
  • Each of the master files 41 and the sub files 42 incorporates a goods data box a and a total box b; the total box of the master file 41 is designated as bl, and the total box of the sub files 42 is designated as b2.
  • the goods data box a lists the goods code of a type of goods and the unit price and so on for each of the classifications (DP), and the total boxes bl and b2 each have a cash total box and a units total box.
  • the total box bl of the master file 41 stores long term totals, for instance the totals over a period of one month or over a period corresponding to a certain season.
  • the total boxes b2 of the sub files 42 contain short term totals, for instance the totals for the current day.
  • the contents of the sub file 42 of each of the slave electronic cash registers are supposed to be identical, and the total box bl of the master file 41 simply holds totals for each of the goods without classifying them for each of the slave electronic cash registers.
  • Fig. 5 is a schematic flow chart showing the action of the overall system, and is referred to in the following description. It should be understood that this flow chart is only an informal one for aiding the understanding of the system according to the present invention, and does not actually represent the operation of any of the individual microcomputers in the electronic cash registers #1, #2, #3 ....... #n.
  • the steps 501 and 502 are initial processing steps for the master electronic cash register #1, and this initial processing involves forming of the master file 41 in the RAM 6 of said master electronic cash register #1 (in the step 501), extracting the data relevant to a certain number, for instance 2000, of the best selling goods for the section where each of the electronic cash registers is installed, and storing this data in a certain area of the RAM 6 of each of the slave electronic cash registers #2, 13, ising #n as sub file data 42 by extracting this data from said master file of the RAM 6 of said master electronic cash register #1 (in the step 502).
  • This system initial processing is performed, for instance, when the system is started up.
  • the sub file 42 of this slave electronic cash register has the goods code, it is looked up, and if not the master file 41 of the master electronic cash register #l is looked up by way of the transfer line L in the step 507, and then not only the unit price and the total price of the goods is displayed on the display 33 but also an appropriate receipt is issued from the printer 4, and then the totalling processing of the step 506 is performed.
  • the totalling processing of the step 506 consists of adding the price and the quantity to the total box b2 of the sub file 42 if the type of goods is one whose code was available in said sub file 42 of this slave electronic cash register, and on the other hand in creating a sub file for this type of goods if the data on the goods was required to be obtained by looking up the master file 41 in the step 507.
  • the total data which has been totalled up in the step 506 as described above is transferred to the master file in the master electronic cash register #1 all together, in the step 508.
  • the master electronic cash register fl the total data which is transferred from each of the slave electronic cash registers #2, #3, — #n every day is entered into the total box bl of the master file 41 each time in a cumulative manner, and when for instance the total data for one month have been obtained, in the step 509, the best selling goods are determined by statistical techniques, for instance according to the order of sales volume or the order of the increase rate in sales volume, in the step 510.
  • a group of goods for instance the top 2000 best selling goods, is extracted from the master file 41 as data for the sub files, and by comparing these data for the sub files with the contents of the sub files 42 of the slave electronic cash registers #2, #3, ... #n, disagreeing data on the goods are obtained, so that they may be transferred to the corresponding sub files 42 of the corresponding slave electronic cash registers, in the step 503 when it is next performed.
  • the improvement of the processing speed may be achieved from the beginning of the operation of the system.
  • the sub file data is prepared in advance as part of the system initial processing, this invention is not to be considered as limited thereby, but it is also possible to prepare the data for the sub files during the initial period of the system start up from the results of looking up the master file for each transaction at each of the electronic cash registers for a certain number of goods, and renewing the sub file according to the subsequent determination of well selling goods.
  • the determination of the best selling goods is performed by the master electronic cash register, but it is also possible for each individual electronic cash register to do the determination. And, in an electronic cash register system using a host computer, it is possible to provide the master file in the host computer, and to perform the determination of best selling goods and creation of data for the sub files on the part of the host computer, as a matter of course.

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EP0276815A2 (fr) * 1987-01-27 1988-08-03 OMRON Corporation Dispositif de traitement de transactions ayant un dispositif de mémoire externe qui lui est relié
EP0276815A3 (fr) * 1987-01-27 1990-01-24 OMRON Corporation Dispositif de traitement de transactions ayant un dispositif de mémoire externe qui lui est relié
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GB2343764A (en) * 1998-11-10 2000-05-17 Int Computers Ltd Data processing system for integrated business solution
EP3358540A1 (fr) * 2017-02-07 2018-08-08 Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha Système de reconnaissance d'objet

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