Patent ID: 9489554
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. An arrangement for assessing efficiency of transactions involving products that are associated with targets to be electro-optically read, comprising: a reader for electro-optically reading the targets to obtain read data; a controller for processing the read data to generate target data indicative of the associated products, for collecting metadata descriptive of the efficiency of the transactions, for associating the collected metadata with the target data, for comparing the collected metadata with an inefficiency threshold that is a predetermined long amount of decode time that is indicative of a slow reading performance, for storing the collected metadata that at least equals the inefficiency threshold, and for storing the target data associated with the stored metadata; and wherein the controller generates the target data by decoding the read data, and wherein the controller collects the metadata by determining each decode time period that is taken for each target data to be successfully decoded, and wherein the controller stores each decode time period that at least equals said predetermined long amount of decode time.