POS Terminal Integrating Mobile Settlement Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
The integration of sales data from mobile settlement systems with conventional POS systems is complex, as the POS server cannot aggregate sales data from mobile transactions, hindering comprehensive sales analysis and understanding in stores using both systems in parallel.
Innovation Solution
A POS system configuration where one POS terminal functions as a sales processing device to acquire and integrate sales data from mobile settlement systems into the POS server's aggregated data, enabling seamless data transmission and analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If both mobile settlement system and conventional POS system are used in parallel, then customers have more payment options and store can reduce labor costs, but sales data integration becomes complex and comprehensive sales analysis cannot be performed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component (sales data integration unit) that acts as a mediator between the mobile settlement system and the conventional POS system. This intermediary receives sales data from both systems, standardizes the data formats, and integrates them into a unified sales dataset that can be analyzed comprehensively, thereby resolving the complexity of direct data integration between the two disparate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal data integration platform that can handle multiple data sources (mobile settlement system and conventional POS system) with different data formats and structures. This universal interface enables the system to process and integrate various types of sales data through a single standardized mechanism, simplifying the overall integration process.
2Productivity
If mobile settlement system is introduced, then store can reduce congestion in payment area and reduce labor costs, but POS server cannot aggregate sales data from mobile transactions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a data collection and integration component that acts as an intermediary between the mobile settlement system and the POS server. This intermediary captures sales data from mobile transactions and forwards it to the POS server in a standardized format, ensuring that the POS server can aggregate complete sales data from both mobile and conventional POS transactions without requiring direct modification of the mobile settlement system.
3Loss of information
If complex data integration work is performed to combine mobile and POS sales data, then comprehensive sales analysis can be achieved, but time and resources are significantly consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary data standardization and formatting processes within the integration component. By pre-processing and standardizing data from both mobile settlement system and POS system before integration, the system eliminates the need for complex post-integration processing, thereby reducing the time and computational resources required for comprehensive sales data aggregation and analysis.
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AI summary
A point of sale (POS) system includes a POS server configured to manage sales data of a store, and a plurality of POS terminals installed in the store and configured to perform processing for commercial transactions at the store and transmit data of the commercial transactions to the POS server. One of the POS terminals is connectable to a mobile settlement system including one or more mobile terminals and a mobile settlement server configured to store data of commercial transactions performed using the mobile terminals. The one of the POS terminals is configured to acquire the data of the commercial transactions performed using the mobile terminals from the mobile settlement server, generate sales data from the acquired data, and transmit the generated sales data to the POS server.