Patent ID: 11880818
Assignee: BLOCK, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A point-of-sale (POS) system used in performing POS transactions between a customer and a merchant, the POS system comprising:
a customer terminal having a customer POS interface configured to receive input from the customer during a POS transaction with the merchant;
a merchant terminal having a merchant POS interface configured to receive input from the merchant during the POS transaction with the customer;
an interface control mechanism;
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions executable by the one or more processors, wherein the instructions program the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
for a specific transaction between the customer and the merchant:
determining, by the interface control mechanism, an indication of interaction with the customer POS interface of the customer terminal;
enabling, by the interface control mechanism and based at least in part on the determining, the merchant POS interface of the merchant terminal to standby to receive input from the customer via the customer POS interface, wherein enabling the merchant POS interface to standby to receive the input comprises causing, by the interface control mechanism, a locked mode of the merchant POS interface to engage;
enabling, by the interface control mechanism, the customer to provide the input via the customer POS interface on the customer terminal while the merchant POS interface stands by for the input from the customer; and
in response to determining that the customer POS interface has received the input, enabling, by the interface control mechanism, the merchant POS interface of the merchant terminal to complete the specific transaction, wherein enabling the merchant POS interface to complete the specific transaction comprises causing, by the interface control mechanism, the locked mode of the merchant POS interface to disengage.