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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2018
Toast, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Oleg Golberg, Cambridge, MA (US);
TOAST, INC., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A synchronization server for fulfilling orders under non-persistent network conditions is provided. The server includes a terminal update element and a queue processor. The terminal update element receives state changes corresponding to one or more orders from one or more of a plurality of POS terminals. The queue processor queues the state changes in a plurality of durable terminal queues that correspond to the plurality of POS terminals, where the state changes are accessed by the terminal update element and are transmitted to a first one of the of plurality of POS terminals, from oldest to youngest, when the first one of the plurality of POS terminals is operably connected to the network, and where the state changes are maintained in durable terminal queues corresponding to other ones of the plurality of POS terminals while the other ones of the plurality of POS terminals remain operably disconnected from the network.