Automatic price display control by emulation of electronic cash register price lookup
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    发明授权
    Automatic price display control by emulation of electronic cash register price lookup 有权
    自动价格显示控制通过仿真电子收银机价格查询

    公开(公告)号:US09058621B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-06-16

    申请号:US13168574

    申请日:2011-06-24

    摘要: A system and method for distribution of product price and/or sales data in a retail establishment. Product price and/or sales data is stored locally, either in a central computer or master electronic cash register (ECR) or remotely at a master computer. The product price data is stored in the form of a price look-up (PLU) table. The price data can be pushed from the master ECR, local or master computers to and ECR emulation hub to an ECR emulation hub. Similarly, the ECR emulation hub can request product price data from the master ECR, local or master computers. Once the product price data arrives at the ECR emulation hub, it can be processed and sent to a display, which will be located near the appropriate product. The ECR emulation hub can also record and/or transmit prices actually charged for products over time to allow for automatic auditing of promotional pricing offers such as those made by manufacturers of the product. The ECR emulation hub acts like an ECR, thereby requiring no special software or hardware modifications to existing pricing display systems that already support ECRs.

    摘要翻译: 用于在零售企业中分发产品价格和/或销售数据的系统和方法。 产品价格和/或销售数据在本地存储在中央计算机或主电子收银机(ECR)中或远程存储在主计算机上。 产品价格数据以价格查询(PLU)表的形式存储。 价格数据可以从主ECR,本地或主计算机推送到ECR仿真集线器到ECR仿真集线器。 类似地,ECR仿真中心可以从主ECR,本地或主计算机请求产品价格数据。 一旦产品价格数据到达ECR仿真集线器,它可以被处理并发送到显示器,显示器将位于相应的产品附近。 ECR仿真中心还可以记录和/或传输产品实际收取的价格随时间推移的价格,以便对产品制造商制作的促销定价提供自动审核。 ECR仿真集线器的作用就像ECR,从而不需要对已经支持ECR的现有定价显示系统进行特殊的软件或硬件修改。