JPS61226871A - Transaction processor having center pause processing function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To retionalize a clerical work by providing a line changeover means for changing over the line so as to execute a data communication with a back up center and processing by the data communication with an ordinary center during a resting time of an operation of a data processing center. CONSTITUTION:In a memory 3 of a transacting device 20, a table 52 not shown, a work memory 53, a transmission buffer 54 and a receipt buffer 55 are disposed. Whether a receipt data stored in the buffer 55 in a CPU 28 is an operation resting information or not transmitted from a pause telegraphic sentence transmitter 13 is judged and subsequently, whether it has a resting processing function or not is judged. When it does not have the resting processing function, an operation pause is displayed by a display 28. When the resting processing function is provided, a telephone number of a back up center is called from the table 52, set in the memory 53, and a line is automatically connected to the center 40. As a result, a credit transaction information stored in the buffer 54 is fed to the center 40.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention provides an arrangement having the ability to cope with the suspension of operation of a data processing center in a transaction processing system.

The present invention relates to a pulling treatment device.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems] In recent years, credit transactions such as shopping, etc. can be carried out without paying cash by simply presenting a credit transaction processing card (hereinafter referred to as a card) such as a shopping card or credit card. Transaction processing systems are widespread.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional credit transaction processing system. Card issuer data processing center 10
is a transaction processing device 1 installed at a card issuer member store.
20 via a telephone switching network 30. Information from the card processed by the card processing unit of the transaction processing device 20 or information such as the amount input using input means such as a keyboard is sent to the data processing center 10 via the telephone switching network 30. Data is processed by a host computer 11 provided in this data processing center 10. This processing result is returned to the telephone switching network 3.
0 to the transaction processing device 20, and is displayed as an image or in print on display means such as a display or a printer provided in the transaction processing device 20.

By the way, the data processing center 10 is not always in operation during the day, but usually during downtime (for example, IS:O
o to 9:00) is defined. In addition, due to a failure of the host computer 11, etc., the data processing center 10
may not exhibit that function. When the operation of the data processing center 10 is suspended in this way, the switching means 1
2 is switched. When information is input from the transaction processing device 20, the suspension message processing device 13 sends a predetermined suspension message to the transaction processing device 20, and the display means displays this fact. Therefore, when the data processing center 10 is out of operation, member stores have to process sales transactions using handwritten slips, which is very troublesome. As a result, it was not possible to streamline administrative procedures.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention was made based on these circumstances,
The purpose of this is to enable processing through normal data communication with the center even when the data processing center is out of operation.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a transaction processing device with a center suspension processing function, which eliminates the need for complicated processing of handwritten slips and the like, and which can streamline office processing.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention is a transaction processing device suitable for processing information input from a transaction processing device by a data processing center, and having a backup center act on behalf of the data processing center when the data processing center is out of operation. The phone number of the data processing center and the phone number of the backup center are stored in the storage unit, and it is determined whether the data processing center has a suspension processing function based on the suspension information of the data processing center, and the data processing center is activated. If it is determined that the system is out of service, the line is switched to perform data communication with the backup center.

[Embodiments of the invention]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. Note that the same parts as in FIG. 5 are given the same reference numerals, and detailed explanations will be omitted. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 40 denotes a backup center, which processes information input from the terminal equipment 20 on behalf of the data processing center 10 when the data processing center 10 is out of operation.

This backup center 40 may be newly established,
Also, data processing centers of other card issuers may be applied.

On the other hand, transaction processing equipment! Reference numeral 20 includes a modem device (hereinafter referred to as 1100E) 21 and a network control unit (hereinafter referred to as NCU) 22 for performing data communication with the data processing device 1o or the backup center 40, and at least a telephone of the data processing center 10. number, a memory 23 for storing the telephone number of the backup center 40, a card processing unit 24 for reading various information recorded on the card and writing necessary information on the card, and a password for the card.

A keyboard 25 for inputting information necessary for credit transaction processing such as item name and amount, and a card processing section 24 or keyboard 2
A display 26 displays an image of each information from 5 or received data received from each center 10.40, a printer 27 prints a slip etc. based on each information or received data, and A central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CP) that controls the entire terminal device 20
It consists of 28 (abbreviated as U). In addition, the above-mentioned NC
U may be either an automatic origination/automatic terminating (AA) type NCU or an automatic origination/manual terminating (AM) type NCU.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a specific configuration of the memory 23. As shown in FIG.

The program memory 51 is composed of a ROM, and has a system program stored therein in advance. On the other hand, the table 52 includes the telephone number of the data processing center 10, the telephone number of the backup center 40, and the telephone number of the data processing center 1.
A center suspension flag that is turned ON based on operation suspension information from the suspension message sending device 13 of No. 0 is stored. The work memory 53 also stores the table 52 as needed.
The telephone number etc. of each center 10.40 called from is stored therein. Further, the transmission buffer 54 stores information from the card read by the card processing section 24 or information inputted from the keyboard 25, and the reception buffer 55 stores information received from the data processing center 10 or the backup center 40. It is used to store received data. In addition, table 5
2. Work memory 53. Transmission buffer 54. The reception buffer 55 consists of a RAM.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the arrangement of the keyboard 25,
In the figure, reference numeral 61 indicates a business key, 62 a numeric key, and 63 a function key.

Next, the operation of the transaction processing device 20 in this device will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. When executing a credit transaction process, first, input the information recorded on the card by inserting the card into the card processing section 24, and enter the card's PIN number 9 using the keyboard 25.
Enter necessary information such as product name and amount (step (hereinafter S)
(abbreviated as T) 1) These input credit transaction processing information are stored in the transmission buffer 54 of the memory 23.

After inputting each piece of information, the send key 63a of the function keys 63 of the keyboard 25 is turned on (ST2). Then, the telephone number of the data processing center 10 stored in the table 52 is set in the work memory 53 (ST3), and a line is automatically connected to the data processing center 10 (ST4). As a result, the margin transaction processing information stored in the transmission buffer 54 is
ODEM21. It is transmitted by the NCU 22 to the data processing center 10 via the telephone switching network 30.

Next, the CPU 28 determines whether there is a response from the data processing center 10 in response to the transmission of information from the transaction processing device 20 (ST5). If there is a response, this response, that is, the received data, is stored in the reception buffer 55 of the memory 23 (ST6).

Next, the CPU 28 determines whether the received data stored in the reception buffer 55 is the suspension information sent from the suspension message sending device 13 (ST7). If it is not operation suspension information, the data communication is performed as is, the data is processed, and a slip is issued according to the processing result. On the other hand, if the information is suspension information, it is determined whether or not it has a suspension processing function (ST8). In this case, the determination is made based on whether or not there is a center suspension flag in the table 52. If there is no flag, that is, if the data processing center does not have a suspension processing function, the display 26 or printer 27 displays an image or print indicating that the data processing center is suspended (ST9). On the other hand, if there is a flag, that is, if it has a suspension processing function, the telephone number of the backup center 4o is called from the table 52 and set in the work memory 53 (ST1
0), the line is automatically connected to the backup center 40 (ST11). As a result, the margin transaction processing information stored in the transmission buffer 54 is transferred to the backup center 4.
Sent to 0.

Next, the CPU 28 determines whether there is a response from the backup center 40 in response to the transmission (ST12).

If there is a response, this response, that is, the data processed at the backup center 40, is transferred to the reception buffer 5.
5 (ST13), and then a slip corresponding to the received data is printed out by the printer 27 (ST15).

Thus, the credit transaction process is completed.

As described above, according to the present apparatus, even when the data processing center 10 is not functioning as a center due to an outage period or a failure of the host computer 11, normal data processing is performed by the backup center 40. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to perform complicated processing such as processing handwritten slips when the center is out of operation as in the past, and it is possible to streamline office processing.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments,
Of course, various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.

〔Effect of the invention〕

In the present invention, when a data processing center is out of operation, the line is automatically switched so that a backup center processes information on its behalf, and at least the telephone number of the data processing center and the telephone number of the backup center are automatically switched. The number is stored in a storage unit, and a determining means determines whether or not the data processing center has a suspension processing function based on suspension information of the data processing center, and it is determined that the data processing center is suspended. In some cases, the line is switched to perform data communication with the backup center.

Therefore, according to the present invention, even when the data processing center is out of operation, processing can be performed through data communication with the normal center, and complicated processing such as handwritten slips can be performed.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 4 are diagrams showing an embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the specific configuration of the memory, FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of keyboard arrangement, and FIG. 4 is a flow chart for explaining the operation.
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a conventional transaction processing system. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10... Data processing device, 11... Host computer, 13... Pause message sending device, 20... Transaction processing device, 21... Modification Xl@location (M・ODEM), 2
2...Network control bag @ (NCU), 23...Memory, 2
4...Card processing section, 25...Keyboard, 26.
...Display, 27...Printer, 28...C
PU, 30... Telephone switching network, 40... Backup center, 51... Program memory, 52... Table, 53... Work memory, 54... Transmission buffer? , 55... Reception buffer, 61... Business key, 6
2... Number keys, 63... Function keys. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 2, Figure 3! i! ! 1 Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A transaction processing device including a reception buffer that stores suspension information sent when a data processing center is suspended, which stores at least a telephone number of the data processing center and a telephone number of the backup center. a storage unit for determining whether or not the data processing center has a suspension processing function based on suspension information stored in the reception buffer; A transaction processing device with a center suspension processing function, characterized in that the transaction processing device is equipped with a line switching means for switching the line so as to perform data communication with the backup center when it is determined that the transaction processing device has a center suspension processing function.