Patent ID: 7216098
Filing Date: 2007-05-08
Classification: G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
1. A cash control system for a business establishment having one or more cash registers, the cash control system comprising: a safe assembly including a safe adapted to secure cash and a currency reader coupled to the safe and programmed to determine an amount of cash received in the safe; a memory in which a control software is stored, the control software programmed to update a pair of identifiers that distinguish deposit information accumulated only during an accounting period before a predetermined event and deposit information accumulated during an accounting period that includes a period after the predetermined event; a central control unit which receives deposit information from the safe assembly and generates and transmits deposit reports, the central control unit uses the control software to update and transmit the pair of identifiers, the central control unit comprising: a cash information server configured to receive the deposit information and the pair of identifiers from the central control unit and to identify the amount of cash collected by the business establishment during the accounting periods.