Patent ID: 6460763
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: G07G

Abstract:
A system processing information relating to commodities involved in transactions, the information comprising commodity information identifying commodities involved in a related transaction and transaction information identifying the related transaction in which the commodities are involved, comprising:plural terminal units, each having an identification code and processing one or more commodities involved in a transaction, in each of plural successive transactions, each transaction being individually identified by a transaction code, each terminal unit further comprising: an input unit inputting to the terminal unit commodity information identifying commodities involved in a related transaction and transaction information identifying the related transaction, a memory storing unit prices corresponding to the commodities, a converter converting commodity information and related transaction information into, and outputting, corresponding bar code print information, and a printer, selectively printing on each of a receipt sheet and a journal sheet, human readable characters and machine readable bar code patterns in accordance with character print information and bar code print information supplied thereto, a controller in response to each initiation of a transaction related to the purchase of one or more commodities obtaining, as specific transaction information, the identification and stored, unit price of each purchased commodity from the input unit and the memory, respectively, and determining, at the conclusion of the related transaction, the aggregate results thereof including the aggregate of all units of all purchased commodities and the respective, total purchase price thereof, the controller, further, supplying to the printer corresponding character print information and bar code print information and controlling the printer to print, on a receipt sheet, the character print information and the bar code print information corresponding to the specific transaction information, as human readable characters and a machine readable bar code pattern, respectively, and to print, on a journal sheet, a selected, reduced amount of the character print information relative to that printed on a receipt sheet and the bar code print information corresponding to the specific transaction information, as human readable characters, of a corresponding, reduced amount relative to those printed on the receipt sheet, and a machine readable bar code pattern, respectively; a host computer connected over a network to each of the plural terminal units; each terminal unit, upon completion of a transaction, transmitting the corresponding specific transaction information over the network to the host computer; and the host computer managing transactions of the plural terminal units, based on the respective, specific transaction information thereof transmitted thereto.