Patent ID: 11966899
Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A commodity registration method for a point of sales (POS) system, the method comprising:
storing, in a POS server, a list of commodities registered for purchase in association with identification information that identifies a customer;
acquiring the identification information through a POS terminal attached to a shopping cart and comprising first and second scanners that are arranged along a handlebar of the shopping cart and have respective reading windows facing a same direction crossing the handlebar;
reading a commodity code of a commodity through the first scanner of the POS terminal, and transmitting first data including the commodity code read through the first scanner and the acquired identification information from the POS terminal to the POS server;
reading a commodity code of a commodity through the second scanner of the POS terminal, and transmitting second data including the commodity code read through the second scanner and the acquired identification information from the POS terminal to the POS server;
receiving the first data by the POS server, and registering the commodity having the commodity code included in the first data in the list; and
receiving the second data by the POS server, and deleting the commodity having the commodity code included in the second data from the list.