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

Claim 10:
11. A point-of-sale apparatus, comprising:
a display screen for displaying commodity information related to a sales transaction;
a first communication interface configured to receive commodity information; and
a product code reading device including:
a second communication interface configured for communication of commodity information to first communication interface;
a commodity reader configured to read commodity information from a commodity for identifying the commodity in the sales transaction;
an output device configured to signal to a user of the commodity reader that the commodity reader has successfully read commodity information from the commodity; and
a controller configured to:
cause the second communication interface to transmit the commodity information read by the commodity reader to the first communication interface for registration in the sales transaction,
initialize the second communication interface so as to recover a communicable state after a communication failure when it is determined that transmission of the commodity information to the first communication interface has failed during the sales transaction, and
cause the output device to signal a communication failure when transmission of the commodity information to the first communication interface has failed during the sales transaction, wherein

the controller is further configured to initialize other components of the product code reading device in a prescribed order if the communicable state is not recovered after the second communication interface has been initialized.