Patent ID: 11941956
Assignee: TELLERMATE LIMITED
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A cash management system, the cash management system comprising a management terminal, a plurality of Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) terminals and at least one intelligent point of sale safe, wherein there are a greater number of EPOS terminals than intelligent point of sale safes, whereby the at least one intelligent point of sale safe acts as a virtual cash holding unit for more than one EPOS terminal; the management terminal operable to reconcile transactions carried out by a user on a separate EPOS terminal and intelligent point of sale safe; wherein:
the at least one intelligent point of sale safe comprises a receiver operable to receive a signal comprising an identifier associated with a user, an access module operable, in response to the received signal, to allow access to the intelligent point of sale safe, a counter which increments each time access is allowed to provide a sequence number identifying a transaction at the at least one intelligent point of sale safe, and a controller operable, in response to the received signal, to allow access to the at least one intelligent point of sale safe, wherein the controller is operable to send a report comprising an identifier relating to the user and data relating to the contents of the at least one intelligent point of sale safe and the sequence number identifying the transaction to at least one external device; wherein
the plurality of EPOS terminals are operable to calculate an amount owed based on inputs and operable to output the amount owed to the management terminal together with an identifier relating to the user; and wherein
the management terminal is operable to reconcile data by receiving from the at least one intelligent point of sale safe data relating to the contents of the at least one intelligent point of sale safe together with the identifier relating to the user and by receiving from the EPOS terminal data indicating the amount owed together with the identifier relating to the user and comparing the data where the identifiers relating to the user match and wherein the management terminal is arranged to verify that all data packets sent from each intelligent point of sale safe have been received by checking that for each intelligent point of sale safe there are no gaps in the sequence numbers received from the respective intelligent point of sale safe, wherein if a missing data packet is identified, the management terminal is operable to send a request for certain particular data, identified by sequence number to the relevant intelligent cash holding unit.