EP0987640A1 - Procédé de libération d'une commande de client après un paiement enregistré - Google Patents

Procédé de libération d'une commande de client après un paiement enregistré Download PDF

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EP0987640A1
EP0987640A1 EP98117503A EP98117503A EP0987640A1 EP 0987640 A1 EP0987640 A1 EP 0987640A1 EP 98117503 A EP98117503 A EP 98117503A EP 98117503 A EP98117503 A EP 98117503A EP 0987640 A1 EP0987640 A1 EP 0987640A1
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Gerd c/o Kodak Aktiengesellschaft Fecher
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
    • G07G1/00—Cash registers
    • G07G1/0036—Checkout procedures
    • G07G1/0045—Checkout procedures with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
    • G07G1/00—Cash registers
    • G07G1/12—Cash registers electronically operated
    • G07G1/14—Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit

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  • the invention relates to a system for releasing a customer order after a registered payment.
  • the system having a plurality of in put stations for registering the payment, at least one multiplexer for electrically connecting the input stations to at least one output station located in a store, and a plurality of input ports and one output port are provided by the multiplexer.
  • the Japanese Patent Application JP-09192354 discloses a system for transmitting video games into a hotel room.
  • a scanner in each hotel room is used to transmit the location of the screen to a central processing unit. This determines the location where a video game has to be displayed.
  • the central processing unit has a multiplexer, which enables the localization of the screen.
  • the system comprises several hardware devices; each of them holds a different video game. Each hardware device is connected to the screen by way of two multiplexers.
  • the information from the scanner is routed to the central processing unit, which instructs the first multiplexer to determine the location of the screen. Parallel thereto, the central processing unit instructs the second multiplexer to load the selected video game software to the appropriate terminal.
  • WO 93/05475 discloses a system for displaying prices of articles on labels in a supermarket.
  • the system is controlled by a central computer, which receives from and sends to labels information, respectively.
  • a plurality of switches and converters are present, which allow the localization of each label in the supermarket.
  • a response from the label to the central computer or from the central computer to the label receive a note attached by the converter or the switch. This note enables determination of the switch or the converter and additionally the localization of the label.
  • the employees use barcode scanners in the supermarket for transmitting a request to the central computer to display a different information on the labels in certain areas of the supermarket.
  • the system above described allows a fast and efficient actualization of labels in a supermarket.
  • the object is attained by a system which is characterized in that: a first converter is attached to the output port of the multiplexer; and each of the output stations in the store are connected to a second converter being attached to an input port of each of the output stations, and wherein each of said second converters are connected electrically to said first converter, so that all the data generated at the plurality of input stations is fed to each of the output stations.
  • the advantage of the inventive system is that an unlimited number of input stations can be monitored. Regardless at which input station in a store the customer receipt is scanned or inputted after the payment, the system makes sure that the temporarily stored data representing a customer stored print job are released for transmitting to a remote print station. In case if there are more than one output stations in a store, the data stream gained from the input stations is sent to all output stations in that store. In the present case the output stations are order stations which allow a user to generate an order for prints of digital image data. The prints are made at a remote location to which the image data are sent; for example via a conventional telephone line.
  • each order station Since the data gained from the customer receipts contain address information of the order station on which the order was generated, each order station extracts from the data stream the address information which matches the address of the particular order station. Therefore the system is capable of finding the order station on which a customer has generated the print job.
  • the order station 2 for performing the process is shown in a perspective view in Fig. 1.
  • the order station 2 comprises a housing 4 open on one side and enclosing several devices, for example, a monitor 10, a computer 12, a storage compartment 14 for digital cameras, to which compartment are attached several cable guides 15 for the cables (not shown) for connecting the digital cameras, and a document printer 16.
  • the housing 4 is covered by a front panel 6.
  • the front panel 6 can be designed lockable by a lock (not shown) in order to allow only an authorized person access to the interior of the housing 4.
  • the front panel 6 is configured such that the devices in the interior of the housing 4 are protected against vandalism.
  • the electrical connections from the interior of the housing 4 to the outside are achieved by a plug connector 20 to supply the necessary electric power to the devices and also to make the required communication connections to external devices or to a central printing station (not shown).
  • the computer 12 is accessible to the user from the outside such that in addition to the supply of digitized picture data directly from the internal memory of the digital camera, the input of digitized picture data from further data carriers such as a PC card, diskettes or zip drives are also possible. To that end, the appropriate drives (not shown) are integrated directly into the computer 12.
  • a further possibility for input is a scanner (not shown) for films of the ADVANCED PHOTO SYSTEM that matches in its installation size the standard sizes of the conventional drives mentioned above.
  • a glass sheet 18 with integrated touch recognition In front of the monitor 10 is a glass sheet 18 with integrated touch recognition.
  • the glass sheet 18 protects the monitor against vandalism and the touch recognition permits certain functions or activities of the order station shown by the symbols or characters on the monitor 10 to be activated by touching the glass sheet 18.
  • the monitor 10 displays the various user interfaces necessary for operating and using the order station and capable of being activated or deactivated by touching the glass sheet 18 at the location of an appropriate symbol.
  • the touch recognition integrated into the glass sheet 18 registers the spot touched and accordingly initiates an action assigned to that symbol by means of the computer 12.
  • the user interface comprises several individual interfaces that can be displayed and that can be called depending on the user's inputs. Furthermore, the user receives, from the user interface, guidance though the ordering process for the order he is working on.
  • the individual interfaces are stored with their respective symbols in the memory (not shown) of the computer 12 provided in the order station. The individual interfaces are then called and displayed on the monitor in accordance with the user's inputs.
  • the receipt 30 issued to the user by the document printer 18 of the order station 2 is shown in Fig. 2.
  • the receipt 30 is subdivided into seven blocks.
  • the number and the layout of the individual blocks is within the inventive skill of a person skilled in the art.
  • a first block 31 is provided for imprinting a logo or mark.
  • a second block 32 is provided for imprinting the name and the address of a supplier on whose premises the order station 2 stands.
  • a third block is provided for imprinting the address of the user or of the person to whom the completed print order is to be sent.
  • a fourth block 34 is intended for imprinting the total price of the print order.
  • a fifth block 35 is provided for imprinting the order number.
  • a sixth block 36 is provided for imprinting a barcode that states the total price of the order.
  • a seventh block 37 is provided for imprinting a barcode stating the order number of the order.
  • the sixth block 36 with the barcode for the price of the order and the seventh block 37 with the barcode for the order number and/or address of the order station are scanned (other input possibilities such as keying in, scanning and keying in, are also feasible).
  • the receipt 30 has no seventh block 37 with the barcode for the order number and /or address of the order station.
  • the address of the order station 2, which was used to create the order, may be encoded in the barcode of the sixth block 36 as well.
  • the design of the receipt is within the skill of a person skilled in the art.
  • FIG. 3 One embodiment of the inventive system is disclosed in Fig. 3.
  • the system allows the connection of up to eight input stations 40 1 , 40 2 ... 40 8 to at least one output station 2 1 , 2 2 .
  • the input stations are scanner 40 1 , 40 2 ... 40 8 locations and the output station is a order station 2 1 , 2 2 .
  • the scanner location 40 1 , 40 2 ... 40 8 is usually at a cashdesk, where the customer checks out and pays his order created at least at one order station 2 1 , 2 2 .
  • Each scanner location 40 1 , 40 2 ... 40 8 is connected via an electrical cable 42 1 , 42 2 ... 42 8 to a multiplexer 44.
  • the 40 8 to the multiplexer 44 is a conventional RS232 connection.
  • the multiplexer 44 has eight input ports 43 1 , 43 2 ... 43 8 wherein each receives the one of the electrical cables 42 1 , 42 2 ... 42 8 coming from the scanner locations 40 1 , 40 2 ... 40 8 .
  • the multiplexer 44 has an output port 45, which is connected via an electric cable 46 to a first converter 48 downstream of the multiplexer 44.
  • the first converter 48 has an output port 49, which is connected by a second electric cable 50 to at least one second converter 52 1 and 52 2 . Every order station 2 1 or 2 2 has one of the second converters positioned upstream.
  • the amount of second converters positioned upstream the order stations 2 1 , 2 2 is linked to the number of order stations used within one store.
  • Each of the second converters 52 1 or 52 2 is connected via an electric cable 53 1 or 53 2 to the respective order station 2 1 , 2 2 .
  • the electric cable 53 1 or 53 2 , connecting the second converter 52 1 or 52 2 and the respective order station 2 1 , 2 2 is a conventional RS232 connection. Since at least two scanner locations are connected to the multiplexer 44 there is the possibility that a simultaneous transmission of data from the scanner locations may occur. In order to avoid a mix up of the incoming data, a handshake process is implemented.
  • the electric cable 50 connecting the first converter 48 downstream the multiplexer 44 with the second converters 52 1 and 52 2 upstream each order station 2 1 , 2 2 is a RS485 type cable.
  • This cable 50 allows a transmission of data over a cable length up to 1000 meters. All of the order stations 2 1 , 2 2 receive simultaneously the same data stream. The data also include the address of the order station 2 1 , 2 2 on which the customer order was created. Each order station 2 1 , 2 2 has extraction means 54 1 , 54 2 , so that the order station with the matching address extracts those data from the data stream.
  • the result of the analysis is that the customer order temporarily stored in the memory of the order station, on which the order has been created, is now set free for transmission to a central printing station (not shown).
  • a second embodiment of the inventive system is shown in Fig. 4.
  • the second embodiment is modified in that more than eight scanner locations can be attached to the system, which comprises at least one order station 2 1 or 2 2 .
  • the amount of order stations 2 1 , 2 2 as disclosed in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 is not regarded as a limitation.
  • a second multiplexer 440 is attached with its output port 450 to the eighth input port 43 8 of the first multiplexer 44. This construction results in seven available input ports 43 1 , 43 2 , ... ,43 7 on the first multiplexer 44 and eight available input ports 430 1 , 430 2 , ...
  • the first 44 and the second 440 multiplexer are connected to each other in a cascade like manner.
  • the number of available input ports can easily be increased by increasing the number of the cascade like connected multiplexers.
  • Each of the first scanner locations 40 1 , 40 2 ... 40 7 is connected via electrical cable 42 1 , 42 2 ... 42 7 to the first multiplexer 44 and each of the second scanner locations 400 1 , 400 2 ... 400 8 is connected via electrical cable 420 1 , 420 2 ... 420 8 to the second multiplexer 440.
  • the output port 45 of the first multiplexer 44 is connected via an electric cable 46 to a first converter 48 downstream of the first multiplexer 44.
  • the first converter 48 has an output port 49 which is connected by a second electric cable 50 to at least one second converter 52 1 or 52 2 which is positioned upstream of the order station 2 1 , 2 2 .
  • Each of the second converters 52 1 or 52 2 is connected via an electric cable 53 1 or 53 2 to the respective order station 2 1 , 2 2 .
  • the electric cable 53 1 or 53 2 connecting the second converters 52 1 or 52 2 and the respective order station 2 1 , 2 2 is a conventional RS232 connection.
  • the electric cable 50, connecting the first converter 48 downstream of the first multiplexer 44 with the second converters 52 1 and 52 2 upstream of each order station 2 1 , 2 2 is a RS485 type cable.

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