POS (Point Of Sale) terminal program package downloading method and system

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a POS (Point Of Sale) terminal management method and a POS terminal management system. The method comprises the steps that: a remote management system receives a program downloading request sent by a POS terminal; the remote management system transfers a program package corresponding to the POS terminal based on the request and sends the program package to a dynamic library stored with a recognizable downloading protocol of the POS terminal; the dynamic library packages the program package through the downloading protocol stored by the dynamic library and returns the packaged program package to the remote management system; and the POS terminal downloads the packaged program package from the remote management system, wherein the system comprises the remote management system for transferring the program package corresponding to the POS terminal based on the request, and transmitting the program package to the dynamic library stored with the recognizable downloading protocol of the POS terminal, and the dynamic library for obtaining the program package transferred by the remote management system, packaging the program package through the downloading protocol stored by the dynamic library, and returning the packaged program package to the remote management system.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of communication technology, in particular to a method and system for downloading program packages of a POS terminal. Background technique [0002] POS terminal (Point of sales terminal) means "point of sale" in Chinese, and its full name is point of sale information management system. It is a terminal reader equipped with barcode or optical character Barter quota cashier function. [0003] At present, POS terminals have been widely used in the transaction processing and recording of retail and service industries, such as banks, department stores, supermarkets, clothing industry, medical industry (hospital, pharmacy), entertainment and other places where consumption is required. terminal. The application of POS terminals enables enterprises to simplify the supply chain, facilitate self-service transactions, and reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining retail infrastructure. POS terminals have become an indispens...

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Problems solved by technology

At present, the upgrade and maintenance of POS terminals are mainly completed through manual serial port download, that is, the maintenance personnel bring the computer with the upgrade program to the POS terminal site for manual download operation, which is a waste of manpower and material resources, and cannot guarantee POS Timeliness of Terminal Program Updates

[0005] In the current prior art, there are technical solutions for some POS terminal management systems to update and maintain POS terminals remotely through the network; However, the existing POS terminal management system can only manage and maintain POS terminals with the same download protocol, and the management scope is very narrow; and the download protocol of POS machines is a secret technology of each manufacturer, which cannot be disclosed, so the current technical solution There is no POS terminal management system in China that can manage POS terminals with multiple different download protocols compatible to achieve extensive and comprehensive POS terminal management

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