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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2008
Iouri Kloubakov, Beaconsfield, CA;
Bruce Mcvicar, Pincourt, CA;
Thierry Leroux-demers, Longueuil, CA;
Iouri Kloubakov, Beaconsfield, CA;
Bruce McVicar, Pincourt, CA;
Thierry Leroux-Demers, Longueuil, CA;
Fujitsu Frontech North America, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A customer self-checkout system includes one or more checkout stations and multiple supervisor terminals. The supervisor terminals provide support to, and control over, the self-checkout system and checkout stations. A controller is used to coordinate communications among the checkout stations and supervisor terminals over a wired and/or wireless network interfaces. A user may provide input at supervisory terminal using an interface providing context sensitive prompting to enable control using a simple keyboard interface.