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

Claim 0:
1. A product code reading device, comprising:
a communication interface configured to communicate with a point-of-sale terminal;
a commodity reader configured to read commodity information from a commodity for identifying the commodity in a 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 communication interface to transmit the commodity information read by the commodity reader to the point-of-sale terminal for registration in the sales transaction,
initialize the 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 point-of-sale terminal has failed during the sales transaction, and
cause the output device to signal a communication failure to the user of the commodity reader when transmission of the commodity information to the point-of-sale terminal 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 communication interface has been initialized.