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

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program configured to, when executed, cause a point of sales (POS) system to perform an operation 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.