Patent ID: 11915222
Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. An operation method of a point of sales (POS) system comprising:
generating receipt data in an unstructured data format including, as data elements, a store name, a purchase data, and a total purchase amount;
in response to a cut command to cause a paper receipt to be cut, determining whether the receipt data in the unstructured data format includes a customer code;
when determining that the receipt data in the unstructured data format includes a customer code, converting a data format of each of the data elements included in the receipt data in the unstructured data format into a structured data format, and outputting the receipt data including the elements in the structured data format; and
when determining that the receipt data in the unstructured data format includes no customer code, outputting the receipt data in the unstructured data format along with the cut command, without converting the data format of each of the data elements included in the receipt data in the unstructured data format into the structured data format.