POS system including use of expiration dates in commodity codes

Details POS system including use of expiration dates in commodity codes POS system including use of expiration dates in commodity codes

1989-11-09

1992-06-30

Hayes, Gail O.

Boots, shoes, and leggings

235383, G07G 112

Patent

active

051269350

ABSTRACT:
A POS terminal device which performs the function of a cash register upon input of a commodity code, with date and hour data included in the commodity code being checked at the time of data input and a caution indication that the term of validity has expired or the term of validity is approaching. The POS terminal device comprising time measuring device, input device for inputting a commodity code including date and hour data, judgment step for comparing date and hour data indicated by the time measuring device with date and hour data included in a commodity code inputted by the input device, and caution device, whereby in the case where the date and hour data indicated by the time measuring device represents a time not earlier than that represented by the date and hour data included in the commodity code as a result of comparison in the judgment step, and which informs an operator about that fact.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4674041 (1987-06-01), Lemon
patent: 4882695 (1989-11-01), Nichtberger
patent: 5008519 (1991-04-01), Cunningham

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