Patent ID: 11915222
Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A point of sales (POS) system comprising:
a generation unit configured to generate receipt data in an unstructured data format including, as data elements, a store name, a purchase data, and a total purchase amount;
an output unit configured to determine, in response to receiving a cut command to cause a paper receipt to be cut, whether the receipt data in the unstructured data format includes a customer code; and
a conversion unit configured to:
convert a data format of each of the data elements included in the receipt data in the unstructured data format into a structured data format, when the output unit determines that the receipt data in the unstructured data format includes a customer code; and
not convert the data format of each of the data elements included in the receipt data in the unstructured data format into the structured data format, when the output unit determines that the receipt data in the unstructured data format includes no customer code, wherein

the output unit is further configured to output the receipt data including the elements in the structured data format when determining that the receipt data in the unstructured data format includes the customer code, and output the receipt data in the unstructured data format along with the cut command when determining that the receipt data in the unstructured data format includes no customer code.