Patent ID: 6530520
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: A47F,G07G,G08B

Abstract:
A method of operating a retail terminal having a checkout system and an audible message generating device, comprising the steps of:detecting an intervention-needed activity and generating an intervention-needed control signal in response thereto; operating a wireless RF signal transmitter of said checkout system so as to transmit an RF personnel-request signal in response to generation of said intervention-needed control signal, said RF personnel-request signal having a message code which corresponds to one of a plurality of prerecorded messages stored in said audible message generating device; receiving said RF personnel-request signal with a wireless RF signal receiver of said audible message generating device; and generating an audible message which corresponds to said one of said plurality of prerecorded messages with said audible message generating device in response to receipt of said RF personnel-request signal.