JPH0682433B2 - Card authentication terminal group management device - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a card authentication terminal group management device, and in particular,
It is connected to multiple card authentication terminal devices and the card company's center device to transmit the card authentication data etc. to the credit company's center device when selling credits, and whether the card company's center device can make transactions. The present invention relates to a card authentication terminal group management device that transmits a result to a card authentication terminal device.

[Prior Art] As is well known, a card authentication terminal device called CAT (Credit Authorization Termyl) has been put into practical use in order to automate credit card authentication and the like with the spread of credit cards. Further, recently, a card authentication terminal group management device (hereinafter, referred to as a cluster controller) that manages a plurality of CATs and mediates data transmission between the CATs and a center device of a card company is provided. . FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a conventional transaction processing system. In the cluster controller 21 of this transaction processing system, a plurality of CAT2s are connected to the lower side (terminal side) communication channel, and the upper side communication channel is used for credit transaction via the modems 3, 4 and the dedicated line 5. It is connected to a center device 6 of a card company that performs authentication and a store controller 29 that performs a process of totalizing transaction data.

Then, the transaction data of the credit transaction is transmitted online from the CAT 2 to the center device 6 of the card company via the cluster controller 21, and it is determined whether or not the transaction is possible. Then, when it is determined that the transaction is possible, the transaction data is transmitted from the cluster controller 21 to the store controller 29, and is aggregated.

On the other hand, a plurality of ECRs (electronic cash registers) 7 shown in FIG. 6 are installed in a store that introduces such a credit transaction processing system.
The ECR 7 is connected to the store controller 29 via the CER concentrator 8. Then, the sales data from the ECR 7 is transmitted to the store controller 29 for total management.

[Problems to Be Solved by the Invention] Recently, since personal computers having various functions have been supplied at low cost, the use of personal computers as the above-mentioned store controller has been studied. However, since the personal computer has only one transmission channel, the cluster controller 21 and the EC shown in FIG.
It is impossible to connect the R concentrator 8 and perform data transmission with each device.

For this reason, it is possible to use two personal computers, but the problem is that the system is expensive, and the transaction data for credit transactions and the sales data from ECR are managed by different personal computers. There is a problem that the transaction data of the credit transaction and the sales data from the ECR cannot be associated with each other and processed.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and a cluster that transmits credit transaction data to a store controller and also receives sales data from ECR and transmits it to the store controller. It is intended to provide a controller.

[Means for Solving Problems] A card authentication terminal group management device of the present invention is connected to both a plurality of card authentication terminal devices and a center device of a card company, and can be used in any of a plurality of card authentication terminal devices. The card authentication request message transmitted from the card device is transmitted to the card company center device, and the transaction approval / disapproval result message from the card company center device is transmitted to the card authentication terminal device, and a plurality of electronic cash registers, 1st connected to a sales management device that manages by summing up and managing transaction data of credit transactions by a card authentication terminal device and sales data of sales by an electronic cash register, and performing data transmission with the sales management device Second data transmission means for performing data transmission between the data transmission means and the plurality of electronic cash registers, Based on the transaction approval / disapproval result telegram from the center device of the card company, the determining means for determining whether or not the credit transaction has been established, and the credit according to the determination means determining that the credit transaction has been established. The transaction data of the transaction is transmitted to the sales management device via the first data transmission means, and the sales data is transmitted from any of the plurality of electronic cash registers via the second transmission means. Accordingly, the sales data is configured to include transmission control means for controlling the sales data to be transmitted to the sales management device via the first data transmission means.

[Operation] According to the present invention, the transaction data of the credit transaction is transmitted to the sales management device through the first data transmission means in response to the determination that the credit transaction has been established by the determination means. In response to the sales data being transmitted from any one of the electronic cash registers of the stand via the second transmitting means, the sales data is transmitted to the sales management device via the first data transmitting means. Therefore, the sales management device only needs to have one transmission channel.

[Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a transaction processing system including a cluster controller to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied. The transaction processing system shown in FIG. 1 is the same as the conventional transaction processing system shown in FIG. 6 except for the cluster controller 1 and the store controller 9. Therefore, the same parts are designated by the same reference numerals and will not be described. Omit it.

In FIG. 1, the cluster controller 1 is provided with a new transmission channel for data transmission between the ECR concentrators 8. In FIG. 1, the cluster controller 1 has the following functions. That is, (1) The card authentication request message from CAT2 is received and transmitted to the card company center device 6.

(2) The transaction approval / disapproval result message from the card company center device 6 is received and transmitted to CAT2.

(3) The transaction data of the credit transaction determined to be transactable by the card company center device 6 is transmitted to the store controller 9.

(4) Mediates data transmission between the ECR concentrator 8 and the store controller 9.

The above-mentioned (1) to (3) have the same functions as those in the conventional transaction processing system shown in FIG. The feature of the present invention is that it has the function of (4) described above.

The store controller 9 aggregates the credit transaction data by CAT and the sales data by ECR transmitted from the cluster controller 1 to calculate the daily sales amount for each sales floor where CAT and ECR are provided and the sales amount by department. Is used to create a sales report for the entire store. For example, a personal computer or the like is used.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the cluster controller 1 shown in FIG. In Figure 2, CP
The ROM 11 and the RAM 12 are connected to the U10, and the store controller side transmission unit 13, the card company center device side transmission unit 14, and the CA provided corresponding to the four transmission channels are provided.
The T side transmission unit 15 and the ECR concentrator side output transmission unit 16 are connected. The ROM 11 stores the operation program of the CPU 10 based on the flowchart shown in FIG. 5 described later. The RAM 12 includes a buffer for temporarily storing the transmitted data, a work area for executing a program, and the like. The store controller side transmission unit 13 mediates data transmission between the CPU 10 and the store controller 9. The card company center device side transmission unit 14 mediates data transmission between the CPU 10 and the card company center device 6. The CAT-side transmission unit 15 mediates data transmission between the CPU 10 and CAT2. ECR concentrator side transmission unit 16 is CPU10
Data transmission between the ECR concentrator 8 and the ECR concentrator 8.

FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are diagrams showing formats of electronic messages exchanged between the respective devices shown in FIG. FIG. 3 (a) is a diagram showing a card authentication request message transmitted from CAT2 to the cluster controller 1. This card authentication request message 20 includes a code indicating the distinction between sales and cancellation, transaction amount data, the product code of the product purchased by the customer, the customer's personal identification number, the card data read from the credit card, the transaction date and the transmission. It consists of the original terminal number.
FIG. 3B is a diagram showing a card authentication request message transmitted from the cluster controller 1 to the card company center device 6. The card authentication request message 30 shown in FIG. 3 (b) includes the code indicating the cluster controller 9 of the transmission source and the code of the card company center device 6 of the transmission destination in the card authentication request message 20 shown in FIG. 3 (a). It is added. FIG. 3C is a diagram showing a transaction approval / disapproval result message transmitted from the card company center device 6 to the cluster controller 1. The transaction approval / disapproval result message 40 is composed of a code of the card company center device 6 indicating the transmission destination, a cluster controller 1 code indicating the transmission destination, an error code, and an approval number. Here, the error code is a code indicating the error content when the card company center device 6 determines that the transaction is not possible, and the approval number is a number given when it is determined that the transaction is possible. . Thus, if the transaction is possible, the error code portion is replaced with, for example, the space character, and if the transaction is not possible, the authorization number portion is similarly replaced with, for example, the space character. FIG. 3 (d) is from the cluster controller 1.
It is a figure which is transmitted to CAT2 and shows a card transaction report message. The card transaction report message 50 is composed of display data to be displayed on the CAT2 display and print data to be printed by the CAT2 printer.

FIG. 4 (a) is a diagram showing an aggregated data electronic message transmitted from the ECR 7 to the ECR concentrator 8. This aggregated data message 60
Is composed of the daily total amount, the daily total number of customers, and the amount of data customers for each department.

FIG. 4 (b) is a diagram showing an aggregated data message transmitted from the ECR concentrator 8 to the cluster controller 1. This aggregated data telegram 70 is the aggregated data telegram shown in FIG. 4 (a).
"1" indicating that the data is from the ECR concentrator is added to the head of 60. FIG. 4 (c) is a diagram showing a total data message 80 transmitted from the cluster controller 1 to the store controller 9. This aggregated data telegram 80 is similar to the aggregated data telegram 70 shown in FIG. 4 (b). FIG. 4 (d) is a diagram showing a credit transaction data message transmitted from the cluster controller 1 to the store controller 9. The credit transaction data message 90 is composed of "2" indicating that the transaction data is the credit transaction data transmitted from the cluster controller 1 to the store controller 9 and the following credit transaction data.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the embodiment of the present invention. Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

The CPU 10 of the cluster controller 1 initializes each channel of the store controller side transmission unit 13, the card company center device side transmission unit 14, the CAT side transmission unit 15, and the ECR concentrator side transmission unit 16. Then, it waits until data is transmitted from any of the transmission channels. And from CAT2 to CA
In response to receiving the card authentication request message 20 via the T side transmission unit 15, the received card authentication request message 20 is edited to create the card authentication request message 30, and the card company center device side transmission unit 14 Via the card company center device 6.

In response to receiving the transaction approval / disapproval result message 40 from the card company center device 6, the card transaction report message 50 is edited and CA
It is transmitted to the corresponding CAT2 via the T-side transmission unit 15. Then, it is determined whether or not the transaction has been established based on the transaction approval / disapproval result message 40 transmitted from the card company center device 6, and if the transaction is successful, the credit transaction data message 90 is edited and stored. Data is transmitted to the store controller 9 via the controller-side transmission unit 13.

On the other hand, in response to receiving the aggregated data telegram 70 from the ECR concentrator 8 via the ECR concentrator side transmission unit 16, the received aggregated data telegram 70 is directly sent to the store controller 9 via the store controller side transmission unit 13. To transmit.

Further, when data is transmitted from the store controller 9 via the store controller side transmission unit 13, the transmitted data is transmitted to the ECR line concentrator 8 via the ECR line concentrator side transmission unit 16.

Thus, since the credit transaction data by CAT2 and the sales data by ECR7 are transmitted to the store controller 9, for example, the credit transaction and ECR for each sales floor are performed.
It is possible to perform a totaling process by relating both data, such as calculation of the total amount of sales data by. Also,
Since the store controller 9 can be realized by a device such as a personal computer which is inexpensive, easy to handle, and uses a relatively easy to handle language, the hardware and software costs are low.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, in a card authentication terminal device that mediates data transmission between a card authentication terminal device and a card company center device, data transmission is performed with a sales management device. A first data transmission means for performing and a second data transmission means for performing data transmission between a plurality of electronic cash registers are provided, and the determination means determines that a credit transaction has been established. Then, the transaction data of the credit transaction is transmitted to the sales management device via the first data transmission means, and the sales data from the electronic cash register is transmitted via the second transmission means. Since the sales data is transmitted to the sales management device via the first data transmission means, the sales management device only needs to have one transmission channel.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a transaction processing system including a cluster controller to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied. FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the cluster controller shown in FIG. FIGS. 3A and 3B are diagrams showing a card authentication request message. FIG. 3C is a diagram showing a transaction approval / disapproval result message. FIG. 3 (d) is a diagram showing a card transaction report message. FIGS. 4 (a), (b) and (c) are diagrams showing aggregate data telegrams. FIG. 4D is a diagram showing a credit transaction data electronic message. FIG. 5 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a conventional transaction processing system. In the figure, 1 is a cluster controller, 2 is CAT, 3
And 4, a modem, 5 a dedicated line, 6 a card company center device, 7 ECR, 8 ECR concentrator, 10 CPU, 11 RO
M, 12 RAM, 13 store controller side transmission unit, 14 card company center device side transmission unit, 15 CAT side transmission unit, 16 E
The transmission unit on the CR concentrator side is shown.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A card authentication request message transmitted from any one of the plurality of card authentication terminal devices, which is connected to both a plurality of card authentication terminal devices and a center device of the card company. To the device, and the transaction approval / disapproval result telegram from the center device of the card company is transmitted to the card authentication terminal device, and a plurality of electronic cash registers, the transaction data of the credit transaction by the card authentication terminal device, and the A card authentication terminal group management device connected to a sales management device that totalizes and manages sales data of sales by an electronic cash register, the first data performing data transmission with the sales management device. Transmitting means, second data transmitting means for transmitting data between the plurality of electronic cash registers, A determination means for determining whether or not a credit transaction has been established based on a transaction approval / disapproval result message from the center device of the card company, and the credit according to the determination means determining that the credit transaction has been established. The transaction data of the transaction is transmitted to the sales management device via the first data transmission means, and the sales data from any one of the plurality of electronic cash registers is transmitted via the second transmission means. A card authentication terminal group management device comprising a transmission control means for controlling the sales data to be transmitted to the sales management device via the first data transmission means in response to the transmission.