JPH03268096A - Sales data collection processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of various processing jobs of sales data by collecting automatically the sales data stored in plural data terminal equipments via a communication circuit and with no manual operation required. CONSTITUTION:A credit card sales data collection processor consists of plural CAT (Credit Authorization Terminal) terminal equipments 10i (i=1-n) provided at each branch office, a terminal controller 20 set at the head office, a store controller 30, and a CAFIS (Credit and Finance Information System) terminal equipment 40 which has an access to a data file of credit cards received from each card company 50i. In such a constitution, the sales data stored in plural data terminal equipments are automatically collected by the controller 30 via a communication circuit 60 in response to a fixed point of time after the end of a transaction. As a result, the sales data processing efficiency is improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a sales data collection and processing device, and in particular, the present invention relates to a sales data collection and processing device, and particularly to a sales data collection and processing device that uses the The present invention relates to a sales data collection and processing device in which a terminal control device collects and processes sales data that has been processed and accumulated in a data terminal device.

[Conventional technology] Traditionally, specialty stores that are owned by the same company and have branches all over the country have used CAT (Credit Authorization
A terminal device (abbreviation for ion Terminal) is provided, and credit transactions are performed using a credit card.

The plurality of CAT terminal devices are CAFIS (Credi
t and Finance Inf.

This is a data terminal device used in credit card member stores that is connected to a credit card (abbreviation for Rmation System) device for data communication and automatically performs tasks such as checking invalid credit cards, checking credit limits, issuing slips, and processing sales data. Therefore, when a product is purchased using the CAT terminal device, the desired information is provided by accessing the data file of each credit card company through the CAFIS device, making it easy to determine whether or not the transaction can be completed using the credit card. can.

Now, the sales data regarding the sales products for which the transaction was completed at each of the CAT terminal devices is sorted into slips for each branch. This sorted slip is sent to the head office (headquarters) as an invoice for the traded products, and based on this, the head office bills each credit card company for each credit card company.
Sales amounts from AT terminal devices were collected.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, while credit inquiries for credit cards in CAT terminal devices have been performed each time via public lines, collection of sales data and collection of sales amounts have to be done manually. It was.

In other words, each branch created a slip for the products that were transacted by card and sent it to the head office, and the head office billed each credit card company in a lump sum based on the sent slip. Therefore, the work of collecting and aggregating sales data for each credit company and creating invoices becomes complicated and requires manual labor, and there are problems in that it is time consuming, prone to errors, and is not efficient.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a data processing system between a plurality of data terminal devices that store sales data obtained through transaction processing and a terminal control device that is connected to the plurality of data terminal devices via a communication line. It is an object of the present invention to provide a sales data collection and processing device that automatically collects sales data stored in a data terminal device on a terminal control device side and processes the data.

[Means for Solving the Problems] A sales data collection and processing device according to the present invention includes a plurality of data terminal devices that store sales data obtained through transaction processing;
The sales data collection processing device includes the plurality of data terminal devices and a terminal control device connected via a communication line, and in detail, the plurality of data terminal devices have a memory that accumulates and stores the sales data. means, a timekeeping means for measuring the current time, and a timekeeping means for measuring the current time, and in response to the timekeeping means measuring a predetermined time for each of the data terminal devices after the completion of the transaction processing, the data is stored in the storage means. transmitting means for transmitting the accumulated sales data transmitted by the transmitting means to the terminal control device, and further, the terminal control device receives the accumulated sales data transmitted by the transmitting means from all connected data terminal devices. and a receiving and collecting means for collecting information.

Further, the plurality of data terminal devices include the storage means;
transmitting/receiving means for transmitting accumulated sales data stored in a storage means to the terminal control device in response to receiving a data collection request from the terminal control device; further, the terminal control device is configured to clock the current time; and a transmitting means for transmitting the data collection request signal to the plurality of data terminal devices in response to the clocking means measuring a time after the end of the transaction that is predetermined for each of the data terminal devices; and a receiving/collecting means for receiving and collecting accumulated sales data transmitted from the plurality of data terminal devices by the transmitting/receiving means.

[Function] Since the sales data collection and processing device according to the present invention is configured as described above, the sales data stored in the plurality of data terminal devices is calculated in response to the clocking of the fixed time after the end of the transaction by the clocking means. Data is automatically collected on the terminal control device side via the communication line.

[Embodiments] Hereinafter, two embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

In the following example, sales data from credit card transactions at branches are collected at the head office via public lines, and this data collection method is as in the first example described below. A method in which the terminal device makes a terminal call and sends sales data to the data collection controller at the head office, and a method in which the data collection controller calls each CAT terminal device to send sales data as in the example of measure 2 described later. There are ways to control it.

The data collection controller installed at the head office is hereinafter referred to as a terminal controller because it collectively controls each connected CAT terminal device.

First, a first example will be described.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a credit card sales data collection processing device according to first and second embodiments of the present invention.

In the figure, the credit card sales data collection and processing device includes a plurality of CAT terminal devices 101 (
(hereinafter referred to as i=l, 2.3...n), the terminal controller (terminal control device) 20 and store controller 30 provided at the head office, and data files related to the credit card provided by each card company 50i are accessed. Each CAT terminal device 10i includes a CAF I S device 40, and each CAT terminal device 10i is connected to a CA via a public communication line 60.
It is communicatively connected to the FIS device 40 and the terminal controller 20. Further, the terminal controller 20 connects to the CAFIS device 4 via a dedicated communication line 70.
0 and store controller 30, and furthermore, the CAFI S device 40 is connected to each card company 5.
0i and a dedicated communication line 70. It is assumed that the public communication line 60 is a public telephone line that is a wide area line.

The terminal controller 20 controls transmission of a plurality of CAT terminal devices 10i connected via the public communication line 60, and has functions such as terminal multiplex control and data storage/processing. Further, the store controller 30 stores data (including programs) required for control operations and data processing of the terminal controller 20, and provides information to the terminal controller 20 in response to requests.

As shown in FIG. 1, a request signal is sent to the CAFIS device 40 via the public communication line 60 for a credit card credit inquiry, etc. in the normal CAT terminal device 10i, and the CAFIS device 40 responds by sending a request signal to the CAFIS device 40. A data file related to a credit card provided in the relevant card company 50i is searched, and the result is sent back to the requesting CAT terminal device 10i via the public communication line 60.

On the other hand, the contents of credit card transactions stored in the CAT terminal device 10i, that is, tanked sales data, are transmitted to the terminal controller 20 via the public communication line 60. Accordingly, the terminal controller 20 temporarily stores the received sales tanking data in the store controller 30 for data processing.

FIG. 2 shows a CAT terminal device 100 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing the internal functional configuration of FIG.

In FIG. 2, a CAT terminal device 1001 includes a CPU (abbreviation for central processing unit) 11 that controls and supervises the device itself, and a CPU (abbreviation for central processing unit) 11 that controls and supervises the device itself, and a CPU (abbreviation for central processing unit) 11 that controls and supervises the device itself, and a CPU that stores data (including programs) required for processing operations of the device 1001. ROM (Read
0nly Memory) 12 and RAM (R
andom Access Memory)1
3. Keyboard control device 14, NCU/MODEM device 15 for controlling the connection with the public communication line 60, modulating and demodulating the transmitted and received signals, timer 16, and data stored in the credit card 18 presented by the customer. It includes a card reader control device 17 for reading and a power OFF control device 19.

The RAMI 3 includes the CAT terminal device 10 described above.
Sales tanking data 131 in 01 is stored. Further, the timer 16 allows the CAT terminal device 1001 to send the sales tanking data 131 to the terminal controller 2.
The timer 16 is provided to time the time at which a terminal call is made and transmitted at 0, and the set time of the timer 16 is changed for each branch.

In addition, the NCU/MODEM device 15 sends sales data for each normal card transaction by calling the CAF IS device 40 using a telephone number, and periodically (every day).
To transmit the sales tanking data 131, the terminal controller 20 is called using a telephone number and transmitted.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the internal functional configuration of the terminal controller 20a according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, the terminal controller 20a is a CPU that controls and monitors the terminal controller 2Oa itself.
21, hard disk device 22, input/output channel 23,
Communication control devices 241 to 243 and 25 are included.

The input/output channel 23 is connected to the flexible disk device 2
31, controls data input/output and data transfer of the magnetic tape device 232 and console 233;

Further, the communication control devices 241 to 243 each have a maximum of 16 channels, that is, up to 16 CAs.
A communication line can be connected to the T terminal device 1001, and the transmission speed thereof is, for example, 1.2 KBPS.

Further, the communication control device 25 controls communication with the CAFIS device 40 and the store controller 30.

Now, the above-mentioned terminal controller 20a connects a maximum of 16 channels of communication lines to each of the communication control devices 241 to 243, and connects up to the 16th device when all terminal calls are made from the CAT terminal devices 100i. Data processing is possible.

However, if 16 or more terminals make calls at the same time, the CAT terminal device 1001 from the 17th device that made the call will be called by the terminal controller 20.
The communication line with a is set from busy to a standby state until it becomes empty. As described above, it is necessary to divide the CAT terminal apparatuses 1i100i into blocks of 16 units and L5, and set the terminal call timer for each block.

FIG. 4 shows a CAT terminal device 20 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining a situation in which a terminal call is made in units of blocks of a.

As shown in the figure, a plurality of CAT terminal devices 1001 connected to the terminal controller 20a are divided into 1 block for every 16 devices, and after the elapse of time after transmitting n blocks, the next (n+1) block transmits data. In this way, the terminal controller 20a collects the sales tanking data 131 of each CAT terminal device 1001.

That is, the configuration of the CAT terminal device 1001 installed at each branch is divided into blocks. Therefore, the set times of the timers 16 of the CAT terminal devices 1001 in each block are unified so that the terminal calling times for transmitting the sales tanking data 131 are all the same. Therefore, if n blocks are set at time T, (n+1
) block starts the timer 16 at the time (T10t) after the elapse of time and makes a terminal call. In this way, terminal calls are made sequentially and the sales tanking data 131 of all the connected CAT terminal devices 1001 are automatically transmitted to the terminal controller 2Oa side, so data collection can be carried out efficiently.

FIG. 5(a) shows sales tanking data 1 during normal operation of the CAT terminal device 1001 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic processing flow diagram when transmitting data using T.31 transmission.

FIG. 5(b) is a schematic processing flow diagram when the terminal controller 20a collects the sales tanking data 131 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

The processing flow shown in FIG. 5(a) is stored in advance as a program in the ROM 12 of the CAT terminal device 1001, and is executed under the control of the CPU 1. Also,
The processing flow shown in FIG. 5(b) is stored in advance as a program in the hard disk device 22 of the terminal controller 20a, and is executed under the control of the CPU 21.

Next, the CAT terminal device 10 according to the first embodiment of the present invention
The data collection operation of the sales tanking data 131 by calling the terminal No. 01 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5 (a) and (b).

In the following explanation, the CAT terminal device 1001 performs normal transaction processing using the credit card 18, and in response to the arrival of a fixed time after closing (end of transaction), the CAT terminal device 1001 generates sales tanking data 131 based on credit card transactions for the day. A terminal call is made to the terminal controller 20a and the information is transmitted.

On the other hand, the terminal controller 2Oa side receives the sales tanking data 131 and sends it to each card company 50i.
Data processing such as tabulating and creating invoices is performed.

First, in each CAT terminal device 100i, a normal credit card transaction process is started. The loop process consisting of is repeated until the closing time.

First, in step S10, the customer presents the credit card 18 and a credit transaction begins.

The data stored on the presented credit card 18 is read by the card reader control device 17.

In step S20, the identity of the person is verified based on the data read from the credit card 18 in step S10, and it is determined whether or not the card has been used fraudulently.

In step S30, in response to the processing result of step S20 described above, if an unauthorized card is used, step S65 is determined.
The process branches to step S10 to stop the transaction using the presented credit card 18, and returns to step S10 to perform error processing such as starting a new transaction using the next credit card 18.

Returning to the process of step S30, if the presented credit card 18 and the person match, the process moves to the next step S40, and the keyboard control device 14 is operated to input the transaction amount etc. . The key input data and the data read from the credit card 18 are transferred to the NCU/MODE in the next step S50 as sales data by the credit card 18.
CAF I via M device 15 and public communication line 60
It is transmitted to the S device 40. In other words, NCU/MODE
The M device 15 uses the telephone number to contact the CAF I S device 40.
call to establish a communication line connection. The communicatively modulated sales data is then received by CAFIS device 40 . Thereafter, the CAFIS device 40 quickly reads data regarding the credit card 18 held by the card company 50i via the dedicated communication line 70, and checks whether the current transaction amount is within the credit limit of the card 18, etc. A determination is made as to whether or not the transaction can be completed based on the following.

At this time, if the transaction is successful, the transaction count data is incremented and the transaction amount is registered in the data file of the card company 50i.

In this way, it is determined whether or not the transaction can be concluded, and a signal indicating whether or not the transaction can be concluded is sent from the CAFIS device 40 to the source C.
To AT terminal device 1001, public communication line 60 and NC
It is transmitted via the U/MODEM device 15.

As described above, the CAT terminal device 1001 determines whether or not a transaction can be completed using the presented credit card 18.
The information is processed and determined through data communication with the FIS device 40. Therefore, each CAT terminal device 1
The details of transactions (number of transactions, transaction amount, etc.) made with the credit card 18 at 001 are reported to CAF I each time.
It will be registered in the data file provided by each card company 50i via the S device 40.

Now, after receiving the process of step S50 described above, step S
At 60, the signal transmitted from the CAFIS equipment ff140 indicating whether or not the transaction can be concluded is determined. In other words, if the transaction is possible, the process moves to the next step 370. However, if the transaction is not possible, the process branches to step S65, the transaction using the credit card 18 is not carried out, and an error process such as switching to a cash transaction is performed, and the process returns to step S65.
Returning to the IO processing, the credit card 18 transaction for the next customer is performed.

Returning to the process of step S60, if it is determined that the transaction is possible, in the process of the next step S70, a slip is created for the store's copy as well as to be issued to the customer. At this time, current sales data is stored in the RAM 13 as sales tanking data 131 in parallel. Thereafter, in the process of step S80, the presented credit card 18 is returned to the customer in response to the conclusion of the current card transaction.

In other words, while the credit card 18 is used for normal transactions, the sales data is stored in the RAM 13 and sequentially accumulated as the sales tanking data 131.

Next, in the process of step S90, it is determined whether the closing time has come and the transaction processing in the CAT terminal device 100i has ended. This determination process is performed, for example, by timer 1.
6 has clocked the preset closing time;
A signal is input to the CPU 11. Therefore, during normal transaction processing before the closing time, Step SIO to Step S
90 loop processing is repeatedly executed for each card transaction, and as a result, sales data for each card transaction is stored in the RAM 13 as sales tanking data 131.

In the process of step S90, when it is determined that the business has ended, the determination process of step 5100a is carried out until the timer 16 inputs a signal indicating that it is the terminal calling time for transmitting the sales tanking data 131. repeated. In other words, when it is determined in S90 that the work has ended, the CAT terminal device 1001 is set to a state in which no data input from the outside is possible from then on, and the RAMI 3
The stored contents, that is, the sales tanking data 131 of today's card transactions are protected from data destruction.

In the process of step 5100a, when the timer 16 inputs a signal to measure the terminal call time to the CPU II,
The process moves to step 5LIO.

In the process of step S11.0, the CPU 11
Today's sales tanking data stored at AM13 1
31 to the terminal controller 20a.

That is, the CPU 1 reads the sales tanking data 131 from the RAM 13 and provides it to the NCU/MODEM device 15. In response, the NCU/MODEM device 15 modulates the given sales tanking data 131 to enable communication, calls the terminal controller 20a with the telephone number to establish a communication line connection, and transmits the modulated sales tanking data 131 to the public. It is transmitted to the terminal controller 20a via the communication line 60.

At this time, as described above, the sales tanking data 131 is transmitted to the terminal controller 20a for each block.

On the other hand, on the terminal controller 2Oa side, the sales tanking data 131 for each block is received via one of the communication control devices 241 to 243, and if it is received normally, an acknowledgment is sent to the sender. C
It is transmitted to the AT terminal device 1001. Therefore, CA
The T terminal device 1100i is the terminal controller 20a.
It is confirmed in the process of step 5120 whether or not the acknowledgment has been received and the process has ended normally. In step 5120, if an acknowledgment is not received, the process branches to error processing in step $125.

In the error processing of step 5125, since the current sending process of the sales tanking data 131 did not end normally due to some kind of failure that occurred in the line, it is necessary to execute the sending process again or to send the next time, that is, the next day's processed data. Process the data so that it can be carried out in conjunction with

Thereafter, in step 5140, automatically! OFF
! The CAT terminal device ff1i10 is controlled by the illI control device 19.
0i's power is turned off.

Returning to the process of step 5120 described above, step 51
If the data transmission/reception process in step 10 is successfully completed and the CAT terminal device 1001 receives an acknowledgment from the terminal controller 20, the process moves to the next step 5130.

In step 5130, the storage area for today's sales tanking data 131 stored in the RAM 13 is cleared and set in preparation for the next day's transaction processing.

Thereafter, in the process of step 3140, the power OFF control device 19 automatically turns off the power of the CAT terminal device 100i.

Note that in the error processing at step 5125 described above,
If the transmission process of today's sales tanking data 131 is to be performed on the next day, the sales tanking data 131 is stored in the flexible disk device 231, etc.
Store it in an external storage medium or keep it in RAM even after the power is turned off.
By supplying backup power only to 13, the storage state of today's sales tanking data 131 is maintained, so that the next day's transmission processing can be performed.

As described above, the CAT terminal device 100i sends the sales tanking data 131 in response to the scheduled time measurement of the timer 16.
By making a terminal call for each block and transmitting it to the terminal controller 20a (IQ), it is possible to automate the manual aggregation and transmission process of sales data.

Next, the CAT terminal device 1001 shown in FIG. 5(a)
The processing operations performed on the terminal controller 20a side in response to the sales tanking data 131 transmission process will be described with reference to FIG. 5(b).

The terminal controller 20a performs the process shown in FIG. 5(b) at step 5110 shown in FIG. 5(a).
Sales tanking data 13 of CAT terminal device 1001
Execution starts in response to the transmission of 1.

First, in the process of step $200, the CPU 21 of the terminal controller 20a detects whether or not a call signal is received due to a terminal call from the connected CAT terminal device 1001. In other words, the call signal is transmitted to the communication control device 2.
41 to 243, and this detection signal is transmitted to the CPU 21 as an incoming call signal. This process of determining whether or not there is an incoming call based on the terminal call is repeated until an incoming call is detected, but once the incoming call is detected, the process moves to the next step 5210.

In the process of step 5210, it is determined what data is received following the paging signal, and the process branches depending on the determination result. That is, if the data received following the call signal is the sales tanking data 131, the process moves to step 5220, but if other data is received, the process moves to the process according to the received data.

Step 5220 after receiving the determination result of step 5210
In the process, the received sales tanking data 131 is temporarily stored in the hard disk device 22. Then, in the next step 5230, all connected CAT
It is determined whether reception of the sales tanking data 131 from the terminal device 1001 has been completed. In other words, if a signal indicating the end of transmission is received, the CPU 21 proceeds to the process of step 5240, but as long as the signal indicating the end of transmission is not received, the CPU 21 returns to the process of step 5200 and starts transmitting data from the next block. The process for the data is repeated in the same way.

All the sales tanking data 131 transmitted block by block as described above is stored in the hard disk device 22 by repeating the loop process consisting of steps 5200 to 5230.

In the process of step 5240, the above-mentioned step 5
In response to the determination result of 230, the terminal controller 20
A and the card company 50i exchange sales tanking data 131 via the CAFIS device 40 for data collation, thereby increasing the reliability of the data. To explain in detail, as described in FIG. 5(a), sales data transmitted and received between each CAT terminal device 100i and each card company 50i through normal card transactions is also stored in the card company 50i. ing. Therefore, CAF I exchanges data including the number of transactions between the sales data accumulated in each card company 50i and the sales tanking data 131 stored in the terminal controller 20a.
By performing this via the S device 40 and the dedicated communication line 70, the terminal controller 20a and each card company 501 can perform data comparison between the independently accumulated sales data and the sales tanking data 131.

It is sufficient if the mutual data contents match through the data matching process described above, but if they do not match, it is determined that a sales data registration error has occurred at each CAT terminal device 1001 or each card company 50i, In order to resolve the discrepancy, the mutually exchanged sales data is temporarily stored in each other's memory to take measures to resolve the registration error.

Note that the data matching process is carried out by each CAT terminal device 10.
A public communication line 60, a CAF I S system f140, and a dedicated communication line 7 are established between 0i and each card company 50i.
It may also be done via 0.

In the process of step 5250, the sales tanking data 131 temporarily stored in the hard disk drive 22 on the terminal controller 2Oa side is processed to create a summary table showing transaction details for each card company 50i. Thereafter, in the process of step 8260, a bill is created for each card company 50i based on the summary table created in the process of step 5250 described above.

Thereafter, the created summary table, invoice, and sales tanking data 131 may be transmitted to the store controller 30 for collective management, and may also be transmitted to the flexible disk device 231 via the input/output channel 23.
Alternatively, the magnetic tape device 232 may be driven and controlled to collectively store data in an external storage medium.

As described above, according to the first embodiment of the present invention, data collection processing of the sales tanking data 131 is performed on the terminal controller 2Oa side in response to a terminal call from the CAT terminal device 1001, so that each CAT terminal device 1001
It is possible to automate the collection of data on transaction details.

Next, a second example will be described.

In the second embodiment, unlike the first embodiment described above, the collection of sales tanking data 131 is not started by a terminal call from the CAT terminal device 10i, but by the terminal controller 20 calling the CAT terminal device Lot. The system is started by controlling users to prompt them to send sales data.

The general configuration of the credit card sales data collection and processing device in the second embodiment is as shown in FIG.
It is transmitted to each card company 50i via the FIS device 40. In addition, sales tanking data 131 is for each CA.
It is transmitted from the T terminal device 10i to the terminal controller 20 via the public communication line 60.

FIG. 6 shows a CAT terminal device 10 according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing the internal functional configuration of 00i.

CAT terminal device 100 of the second embodiment shown in FIG.
Comparing 0i with the CAT terminal device 1001 of the first embodiment shown in FIG. In other words, the CAT terminal device 1.000i does not have the function of making a terminal call in response to the timer 16 measuring a fixed time.

In FIG. 6, the CAT terminal device 1000i is
Similarly to the CAT terminal device 1001 in the figure, the CPU II,
ROM 12, RAM 13 in which sales tanking data 131 is stored, keyboard control device 14, NCU/MOD
EM device 15, card reader control device 17 that reads data stored in credit card 18, and power off
Includes an F control device 19.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing the internal functional configuration of the terminal controller 20b according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

The terminal controller 20b of the second embodiment shown in FIG. 7 is compared with the terminal controller 20a of the first embodiment shown in FIG. The point is that they are prepared.

In other words, the terminal controller 20b of the second embodiment
is connected in response to the timer 26's scheduled time measurement.
It has a function of transmitting a calling signal to the AT terminal device 1000i and controlling the AT terminal device 1000i to transmit sales tanking data 131.

In FIG. 7, the terminal controller 20b is connected to the CP in the same way as the terminal controller 20a in FIG.
U2 L hard disk device 22 flexible disk device 231, magnetic tape device 232 and console 2
an input/output channel 23 that connects the CA 33 and controls its input/output, communication control devices 241 to 243 that control data communication with the connected CAT terminal device 1000i, and a CA
A communication control device 25 and a timer 26 that control data communication with the FIS device 40 and the store controller 30
including.

The terminal controller 20b is configured as described above, and the timer 26 measures a specified time after the operation of the CAT terminal device 1000i installed at each branch office ends. In response to the specified time measurement signal input from the timer 26, the CPU 21 treats the 16 CAT terminal devices 1000i as one block in the same way as in the first embodiment.
A call signal for collecting sales tanking data 131 is transmitted in units of one block, and sales tanking data 131 transmitted from each CAT terminal device 1000i in response to reception of the call signal is collected.

Therefore, the signal input from the timer 26 to the CPU 21 for collecting the sales tanking data 131 is as follows:
If it is set at time T for n blocks, (n+1)
For blocks, the time after a certain period of time (T+t)
so that it is set to . In this way, the sales tanking data 131 of all the connected CAT terminal devices 1000i are sequentially transmitted to the terminal controller 20b, so that data collection can be efficiently completed in a short time.

FIG. 8(a) is a schematic processing flow diagram during normal operation of the CAT terminal device 1000i and when the sales tanking data 131 is transmitted according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8(b) is a schematic processing flow diagram when the terminal controller 20b collects the sales tanking data 131 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

The processing flow shown in FIG. 8(a) is stored in advance as a program in the ROM 12 of the CAT terminal device 1000i, and is executed under the control of the CPU 11. Further, the processing flow shown in FIG. 8(b) is also stored in advance as a program in the hard disk device 22 of the terminal controller 20b, and is executed under the control of the CPU 21.

Next, the terminal controller 2 of the second embodiment of the present invention
The data collection operation of the sales tanking data 131 transmitted in response to the call signal of 0b will be explained with reference to FIGS. 1 and 6 to 8.

In the following description, the CAT terminal device 1. OOOi performs transaction processing using a normal credit card 18 in the same manner as in the first embodiment. On the other hand, the terminal controller 2Ob side provided at the head office is the CAT terminal equipment (If
In response to the arrival of a certain time after the end of the Loooi transaction, sales tanking data 131 from credit card transactions on -day is received from each CAT terminal device 1000i to collect the data, and then sent to each card company 50.
The data is aggregated for each i and data processing such as bill creation is performed.

When it comes to each CAT terminal device 1000i, normal credit card transaction processing is started, but this normal transaction processing is performed in the same manner as in the first embodiment shown in FIG. 5(a) above. Since the loop process consisting of steps SIO to S90 in FIG. 8(a) is repeated until the transaction end time, this normal transaction process will be briefly explained.

Whether or not a normal transaction can be completed using a credit card 18 is as follows.
The CAT terminal device 1000i performs data communication with each card company 50i via the CAFI S device 40, and the data is processed and determined. Therefore each CA
The transaction details (number of transactions, transaction amount, etc.) performed by the credit card 18 on the T terminal device 1000i are transmitted via the CAFI S device 40 each time, that is, each time the loop processing consisting of steps SIO to S90 is repeated. The information is registered in the data file of each card company 50i. In parallel, on the CAT terminal device 10001 side, sales data is stored in the RAM 13 every time a transaction is completed using the credit card 18, and is sequentially stored as sales tanking data 131.

Now, in the process of step S90 in FIG. 8(a), it is determined whether the closing time has come and the transaction processing in the CAT terminal device 10001 has ended. This discrimination process is
For example, the CPU 1 determines that there is data input from the keyboard control device 214 to the effect that transaction processing has ended.

If it is determined in the process of step S90 that today's work has ended, then the next determination process of step 5100b is repeated until the arrival of a call signal from the terminal controller 20b is detected. In other words, when it is determined that the transaction processing is completed in the determination process of step 390 described above, the CAT terminal device 1000i is set to a state in which no data input from the outside is possible from then on, and the RAM is
The stored contents of 13, ie, sales tanking data 131 from today's card transactions, are protected from data destruction.

In the process of step 5100b, when a request to send the sales tanking data 131 is received following detection of the arrival of a call signal from the terminal controller 20b, the process moves to the next step $110.

The processing from step 5110 to step 5140 is performed in the same manner as in the first embodiment shown in FIG. 5(a) above. That is, in the process of step 5100b, in response to the detection of the incoming call signal, the connection of the public communication line 60 is established between the CAT terminal device 1000i and the terminal controller 20b, and the data is stored in the RAM 13. The transmitted sales tanking data 131 is started to be transmitted to the terminal controller 2Ob side.

As described above, the CAT terminal device 1000i responds to the detection of the incoming call signal from the terminal controller 20b and downloads the sales tanking data 1 stored in the RAM 13.
31 to the terminal controller 20b side, it is possible to automate the manual aggregation and transmission process of sales data.

Next, the CAT terminal device 10001 shown in FIG. 8(a)
The processing operation of the terminal controller 20b that is executed in parallel with the processing for transmitting the sales tanking data 131 will be described with reference to FIG. 8(b).

First, the terminal controller 20b is connected to the terminal controller 20b shown in FIG.
) CAT terminal device 10 shown in step 5100b
Following the call signal of 00i, step 519 is performed to issue a sales tanking data 131 transmission request signal.
5 to step 5215 are executed.

In the process of step 5195, the CPU 21 determines whether or not there is a signal input from the timer 26 by counting the specified time. In other words, when the transaction processing is completed in the CAT terminal device 1000i and the designated time to start collecting the sales tanking data 131 is reached, the CPU 2
1, there is a signal input indicating that the specified time has arrived. CPU2
1 repeats the determination process shown in step 5195 until this signal input is detected.

When a signal input from the timer 26 is detected in the determination process of step 5195, the process moves to the next step, block 5205.

In the process of step 5205, the CAT terminal device 1
A paging signal is sent to establish a communication line connection with 000i. That is, as described above, the CPU 21 performs data communication in units of blocks, and transmits a call signal to the CAT terminal device 10001 via one of the communication control devices 241 to 243. The call signal transmitted in this way is sent to the CAT terminal device 100 described above.
0i is received in processing step 5100b.

As described above, in response to the reception of the calling signal transmitted from the terminal controller 20b by the CAT terminal device 10001, the terminal controller 20b and the CA
A connection of the public communication line 60 is established with the T terminal device 1000i.

Next, in the process of step 5215, a request signal to send the sales tanking data 131 is sent following the call signal. When this sales tanking data 131 transmission request signal is received by the CAT terminal device 10001, the sales tanking data 131 is transmitted block by block to the terminal controller 2Ob side through the process of step 5llO described above. Therefore, the terminal controller 2Ob side can receive the sales tanking data 131 transmitted from the CAT terminal device 1000i and temporarily store it in the hard disk device 22.

After that, in the determination process of step 5230, all CA
It is determined whether data collection from the T terminal device 1000i has been completed in the same manner as step 5230 in FIG. 5(b) described above.

After receiving the determination processing in step 5230, if the reception processing for data collection is not completed, step 519 is performed again.
Returning to the process in step 5, the data collection process for the sales tanking data 131 for the next 1 program is performed in the same manner. When the reception process for data collection is completed, the process branches to the next step 5240 and subsequent steps, which will be described later.

By the way, when the process branches to step 5195 in response to the determination result in step 5230, communication processing for data collection for the next block is similarly performed, but in the process of step 5195, , the presence or absence of the next signal input from the timer 26 is determined.

In other words, the timer 26 continues to measure time even after the collection start time of the sales tanking data 131, and inputs a signal to the CPU 21 at regular intervals thereafter. The fixed time interval is 1 of the CAT terminal device 1000i.
Since the time required to collect sales tanking data 131 through data communication for each program is included, the CAT terminal device 1000i side can send data sequentially in block units and at fixed time intervals. , data can be continuously received on the terminal controller 20b side.

In response to the determination processing in step 8230 described above, step 5
When the process moves to steps 240 onwards, data processing is performed on the total sales tanking data 131 collected in the terminal controller 20b in the same way as in the first embodiment described above, and card transactions are sent to each card company 50i. The sales amount is billed through processing.

As described above, according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the terminal controller 20b transmits a paging signal for collecting the sales tanking data 131 to the CAT terminal device 1000i. Sales tanking data 1
31 data transmission is performed, the collection process of sales tanking data 131 is automatically performed.

Note that steps 5240 to 826 described above
0 is processed by a program provided on the terminal controller 20 side.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, the terminal control device transmits a request signal for data collection to each data terminal device to cause each data terminal device to transmit accumulated sales data. In addition, each data terminal device makes a terminal call and transmits the accumulated sales data to the terminal control device, and the terminal control device automatically collects sales data. (1) Sales data accumulated in multiple data terminal devices can be automatically collected via communication lines without manual intervention, so sales data can be collected automatically. (2) The sales data collection process described in (1) above measures a fixed time after the transaction processing is completed on each data terminal device side. (3) The use of the communication line by the sales data collection process described in (1) above is relatively simple. Since the time period when the load on the network is low is selected, the network can be used intensively and reliably in a short period of time, and the cost of using the line is low.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a credit card sales data collection processing device according to first and second embodiments of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing the internal functional configuration of the CAT terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the internal functional configuration of the terminal controller according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a situation in which a terminal call is made in units of blocks of the CAT terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5(a) is a schematic processing flow diagram of the CAT terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention during normal operation and when transmitting sales tanking data. FIG. 5(b) is a schematic processing flow diagram when collecting sales tanking data of the terminal controller according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing the internal functional configuration of a CAT terminal device according to a second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing the internal functional configuration of a terminal controller according to a second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8(a) is a schematic processing flow diagram during normal operation and sales tanking data transmission of the CAT terminal device according to the second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8(b) is a schematic processing flow diagram when collecting sales tanking data by the terminal controller according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 10i, 100i and 10001 are CA
T terminal device, 20, 20a and 20b are terminal controllers, 30 is a store controller, 40 is CAF
IS device, 50i is a card company, 60 is a public communication line, 70 is a dedicated communication line, 13 is RAM, 131 is sales tanking data, 16 and 26 are timers, 241
．． 242, 243 and 25 are communication control devices. In each figure, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts. Figure 4

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A sales data collection and processing device including a plurality of data terminal devices that store sales data obtained through transaction processing, and a terminal control device connected to the plurality of data terminal devices via a communication line, The plurality of data terminal devices include: a storage means for accumulating and storing the sales data; a timekeeping means for counting the current time; , transmitting means for transmitting the accumulated sales data stored in the storage means to the terminal control device via the communication line, the terminal control device transmitting the accumulated sales data transmitted by the transmitting means. A sales data collection and processing device, comprising a receiving and collecting means for receiving and collecting sales data from all of the data terminal devices, wherein the fixed time is predetermined for each of the data terminal devices. (2) A sales data collection and processing device including a plurality of data terminal devices that store sales data obtained through transaction processing, and a terminal control device connected to the plurality of data terminal devices via a communication line, The plurality of data terminal devices include: storage means for accumulating and storing the sales data; and in response to receiving a data collection request from the terminal control device, the storage means for storing the accumulated sales data stored in the storage means. a transmitting/receiving means for transmitting data to the terminal control device via a communication line, the terminal control device comprising: a timekeeping means for measuring the current time; and a timekeeping means for measuring the current time; and a timekeeping means for measuring the current time; transmitting means for transmitting the data collection request signal to the plurality of data terminal devices via the communication line in response to the data collection request signal; and transmitting means for transmitting the accumulated sales data transmitted from the plurality of data terminal devices by the transmitting and receiving means. a sales data collection processing device, comprising a reception and collection means for receiving and collecting data, wherein the fixed time is predetermined for each of the data terminal devices.