EP0199232A1 - Système de saisie de données comportant plusieurs postes de travail, en particulier des caisses enregistreuses - Google Patents

Système de saisie de données comportant plusieurs postes de travail, en particulier des caisses enregistreuses Download PDF

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EP0199232A1
EP0199232A1 EP86105066A EP86105066A EP0199232A1 EP 0199232 A1 EP0199232 A1 EP 0199232A1 EP 86105066 A EP86105066 A EP 86105066A EP 86105066 A EP86105066 A EP 86105066A EP 0199232 A1 EP0199232 A1 EP 0199232A1
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data acquisition
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Robert Dipl.-Ing. Lindner
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Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
    • G07G1/00—Cash registers
    • G07G1/12—Cash registers electronically operated
    • G07G1/14—Systems including one or more distant stations co-operating with a central processing unit

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  • the invention relates to a data acquisition system according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • merchandise management systems data acquisition is taking up more and more space, whereby the requirements placed on the individual data acquisition devices increase accordingly and can no longer be met satisfactorily with conventional data acquisition devices. It is therefore necessary to equip the respective data acquisition device, for example a data terminal, with correspondingly extensive intelligence.
  • this data acquisition device must contain a so-called PLU file (Price Look-Up), in which all fixed data of a range of goods, such as article numbers, exact article names and the respectively associated price list, are kept. The individual goods movements are also stored as variable data in a further memory area.
  • PLU file Price Look-Up
  • the present invention is based on the object of designing a data acquisition system with a plurality of operator stations in such a way that it is suitable both for possible expansions and changes in the area of the periphery and in relation to various configurations of data acquisition systems with or without a control computer and thus also to increased requirements can be relatively easily adapted to the changed conditions of the system.
  • Another advantage of a computer module designed in this way is that, depending on requirements, various configurations from simple multi-user systems to complex network systems with or without a control computer can be implemented.
  • This multi-user system consists of a computer module RM as a so-called ntem cash register core, to which several operator stations BP1, ..., BP4 can be connected via individual interfaces SS1, ..., SS4.
  • the RM computer module has a powerful, for example 16-bit wide microprocessor and a relatively large memory in which, among other things, the fixed data of the entire range of goods with article number, article name and price, a so-called PLU (price look-up) file, is stored. Further features of this RM computer module are a comfortable operating system, free programmability in a higher programming language and extensive user software.
  • the computer module RM has a data transmission interface SS-DÜ for connection to over or. subordinate systems.
  • Each of the operator stations BP1,... BP4 that can be connected to the computer module RM in turn contains an input / output processor IOP that controls the entire peripheral connection devices.
  • the various peripheral connection devices include, for example, a journal / receipt printer JD and a flatbed printer FLD, both controlled by a printer control unit DC, an OCR / barcode scanner SC, a cash drawer GS, a customer display KAZ, and a refund provider RGG, and in each case via a common input / output control unit IOC - a keyboard TA, an operator display BAZ, an operator lock BDS, an ID reader AWL and a barcode reader pen BCL.
  • the advantage of such a structure is that the hardware is essentially concentrated in the operator station and the entire periphery of each operator station BP1 ... BP4 via a single interface SS1 ... SS4 defined in physics and logic with the computer module RM is wrong, while the software is concentrated in the RM computer module. Free programming of the entire terminal structure is therefore only possible via the RM computer module, which can operate several operator stations with the help of a multi-user operating system.
  • the connection to higher-level systems is established solely via the RM computer module. Since the software of the computer module runs via logical interfaces both with the individual operator stations as well as with a higher-level control computer and internal and external data memories, extensive independence from the physics of the respective data registers is guaranteed. When using a uniform, higher programming language for interface operation, driver modules, operating system and cash register programs, this results in easy portability of the cash register software to other processor types.
  • FIG. 2 shows a system structure in which a computer module RM1 takes over the control of a network and further computer modules RM2 ... RMn are connected to a control computer STR via a multi-point connection MPV.
  • each computer module RM1, RM2 ... RMn is assigned several operator stations BP11, 12 .. BP21, 22 ... BPn1 ....
  • the connection to higher-level systems is established in the RM1 computer module by activating one of the existing interfaces as the SS-DÜ data transmission interface.
  • the presence of several computing modules gives the possibility of switching the operator stations connected there to free connections of other computer modules, the switching in the simplest case being possible by changing the connecting cable.
  • the switchover can also be carried out with the aid of an interface switch, which is either attached externally and can be operated manually or can be switched over in the operator station by means of a command.
  • an interface switch which is either attached externally and can be operated manually or can be switched over in the operator station by means of a command.
  • the two operator stations BP13, BP14 are each switched to a free connection of the computer modules RM2 and RMn.
  • FIG. 3 shows a system structure in which a plurality of computer modules RM1, RM2... RMn are connected to a control computer STR via a multi-point connection MPV. If, in addition, the same interface is available on the STR control computer in this system configuration as between the computer module and the operator station, this allows the direct connection of this operator station to the STR control computer, as shown in the example of the BP12 operator station. Because of its extensive hardware and software functions, the control computer can thus be used both as a development system for software creation of cash register programs and for various test purposes. The connection to higher-level systems is also made here on the control computer STR via the data transmission interface SS-DÜ.

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EP86105066A 1985-04-16 1986-04-14 Système de saisie de données comportant plusieurs postes de travail, en particulier des caisses enregistreuses Withdrawn EP0199232A1 (fr)

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EP0910030A3 (fr) * 1997-10-14 2001-02-14 Ncr International Inc. Système de point de vente avec une couche logicielle d'isolation

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WO1982001609A1 (fr) * 1980-10-25 1982-05-13 Metcalf John E Registre de tiroir-caisse
GB2109966A (en) * 1981-09-16 1983-06-08 Menzies Communications Systems Control systems

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WO1982001609A1 (fr) * 1980-10-25 1982-05-13 Metcalf John E Registre de tiroir-caisse
GB2109966A (en) * 1981-09-16 1983-06-08 Menzies Communications Systems Control systems

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EP0910030A3 (fr) * 1997-10-14 2001-02-14 Ncr International Inc. Système de point de vente avec une couche logicielle d'isolation
USRE40576E1 (en) 1997-10-14 2008-11-18 Ncr Corporation Point-of-sale system including isolation layer between client and server software

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