Patent ID: 7827063
Filing Date: 2010-11-02
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A system for connecting one or more point of sale peripheral device at a point of sale for communicative connection to a back-office server performing sale functions, comprising: (i) a backplane unit, comprising a chassis including: (ii) a point of sale engine unit, comprising a frame slidably engageable with the backplane unit including: (iii) a cooling module of the point of sale engine unit, the cooling module is communicatively connected to the processor by the at least one plug connector on mating with the at least one port connector when the frame of the point of sale engine unit is slidably engaged with backplane unit; wherein the cooling module is controlled by the processor of the backplane unit to prevent overheating of the one or more point of sale peripheral device when connected to the point of sale engine unit; wherein the maintenance module monitors the one or more point of sale peripheral device when connected to the point of sale engine unit and initiates signaling by the communications module external to the system for maintaining operational the one or more point of sale peripheral device and the system.