Patent ID: 8256672
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: G06Q,G07F,G07G

Abstract:
1. A self-checkout terminal comprising: an operation unit; a reading unit configured to read a data code attached to a commodity; a registration processing unit configured to acquire, based on the data code, at least price information and sales limitation information of the commodity; a limitation determining unit configured to determine, according to the sales limitation information acquired by the registration processing unit, whether the commodity is subjected to sales limitation; a first checking unit configured to transmit, if the limitation determining unit determines that the commodity is subjected to the sales limitation, first data for urging a check concerning whether a condition for the sales limitation is satisfied to a monitoring terminal and determine whether second data indicating completion of the check is returned from the monitoring terminal; a second checking unit configured to determine, if the limitation determining unit determines that the commodity is subjected to the sales limitation, whether indication that the condition for the sales limitation is satisfied is input by the operation unit; a setting unit configured to set processing by the second checking unit to be valid in response to receiving attendant absence notification from the monitoring terminal, and set processing by the first checking unit to be valid in response to receiving attendant presence notification from the monitoring terminal; and a settlement processing unit configured to inhibit, if the limitation determining unit determines that the commodity is subjected to the sales limitation, shift to settlement processing for the commodity and, if the processing by the first checking unit is set to be valid, enable, if the first checking unit determines that the second data indicating the completion of the check is received from the monitoring terminal, the shift to the settlement processing for the commodity and execute the settlement processing based on the price information of the commodity, and, if the processing by the second checking unit is set to be valid, enable, if indication that the condition for the sales limitation is satisfied is input by the operation unit, the shift to the settlement processing for the commodity and execute the settlement processing based on the price information of the commodity.