Point of sale integrator

US7575159B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Dell Products L.P. · US

Inventors

• Karen Weisblatt · Austin, US
• John M. Adams · Mechanicsville, US
• Michael Shawn Gray · Cedar Park, US
• Kuoyong Huang · Seattle, US
• Brian Slaughter · Round Rock, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 10, 2006
• Grant date: Aug 18, 2009
• Expiry date: Oct 13, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q20/20
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A point of sale terminal is disclosed. The point of sale terminal includes a terminal housing with a controller portion and a cash drawer portion, a sliding sled coupled to the terminal housing residing within the controller portion of the terminal housing and between a first position and a second position wherein the first position is within the controller portion of the terminal housing and the second position is without the controller portion of the terminal housing, and a system controller coupled to the sliding sled such that when the sliding sled is without the controller portion of the terminal housing, the system controller is exposed for service.