Patent ID: 9021350
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A point of sale system comprising: an order terminal that acquires order information including items; a computer that generates output data including a specific identification (ID) for a first item in the items in conjunction with acquiring the order information from the order terminal and sends the output data as a first markup document; a server that stores an output style sheet for printing an order content for the first item with the specific ID using a target device and acquires the first markup document and information related to the target device from the computer and converts the first markup document to a second markup document describing a command for printing the order content based on the output style sheet and sends the second markup document; and a printer that receives the second markup document and prints the order content as the target device; at least one additional printer; wherein, the output style sheet type is specified by output style sheet information contained in receiver information of distribution information from the computer; wherein, if the printer is not operating normally, the server stores at least another output style sheet for printing the order content for the item with at least another specific ID and acquires the second markup document and converts the second markup document to a markup document describing a command for printing the order content based on the at least another output style sheet and sends the markup document describing a command for printing the order content to the at least one additional printer.