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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2016
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Troy Edwards, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Lukas Skoog, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amish Babu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jesse Dorogusker, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A point-of-sale system includes a stand that supports a tablet computer. The tablet computer can run a merchant application to provide the typical functionality for a point-of-sale system. The stand can be rotatable to face either the merchant or the customer. The stand can incorporate a card reader. The tablet computer can be connected through a hub to other peripheral components, such as a controllable cash drawer, a printer and/or a bar code reader. The cash drawer can include a slidable drawer having sliding rails that are hidden from a top view of the drawer.