Point of sale system having a customer terminal and a merchant terminal

US10607200B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• INC SQUARE, CO., LTD · JP

Inventors

• Koun Han · San Francisco, US
• Nicholas Dower · San Francisco, US
• Raymond Ryan · San Francisco, US
• Bruce Bell · New York, US
• Jared Travis Marr · Brookhaven, US
• Alexey Kalinichenko · San Francisco, US
• Tien Nguyen · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 25, 2017
• Grant date: Mar 31, 2020
• Expiry date: Dec 27, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07G1/01
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A point of sale system includes a merchant terminal and a customer terminal. The merchant terminal is configured to display a user interface (UI) window on the merchant terminal. The UI window on the merchant terminal displays a merchant-specific version of a screen displayed on the customer terminal. The merchant terminal receives updates from the customer terminal regarding the status of the payment portion for a transaction. The merchant terminal can provide an input to the UI window which is sent as a message to the customer terminal. Control of state for the point of sale system is shared such that when the system is in a first state, the merchant terminal is the state control terminal, and when the point of sale system is in a second state, the customer terminal is the state control terminal and has control of state for the system.