Patent ID: 11954664
Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A sales transaction registration method, comprising:
reading commodity information for identifying a commodity in a sales transaction using a commodity reader device;
signaling to a user of the commodity reader device using a first audible sound that commodity reader device has successfully read commodity information of a commodity in the sales transaction;
attempting transmission of the commodity information from the commodity reader device to a sales registration device via a communication interface of the commodity reader device;
initializing the communication interface so as to recover a communicable state after a communication failure if the attempted transmission of commodity information fails;
signaling a communication failure to the user of the commodity reader device using a second audible sound distinct from the first sound if the attempted transmission of commodity information fails; and
initializing other components of the commodity reader device in a prescribed order if the communicable state is not recovered after the communication interface has been initialized.