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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2018
Toast, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Oleg Golberg, Cambridge, MA (US);
TOAST, INC., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for fulfilling orders under non-persistent network conditions includes a plurality of point-of-sale (POS) terminals and a server. Each of the terminals generates state changes corresponding to one or more orders, queues the changes in order queues, and transmits the changes in the order queues, from oldest to youngest, when operably connected to a network. The server receives the changes and transmits the changes to a subset of the terminals. The synchronization server has a queue processor and a service area map. The queue processor is configured to queue the state changes in terminal queues that correspond to the subset, where the changes are transmitted to a first one of the subset, from oldest to youngest, when it is operably connected to the network, and where the changes are maintained in other terminal queues corresponding to other ones of the subset while the other ones of the subset remain operably disconnected from the network. The service area map associates each of the terminals to one or more service areas, where the subset corresponds to one of the one or more service areas.