| 摘要 |
A mobile scanner gun system is designed for a retail store with integrated mobile tablet device carried by employees. The mobile tablet device is connected to the pistol gun base housing through a base mount universal receiver with rotational coupling, and communicates to a USB barcode scanner/reader and MSR through a specialized universal serial bus wiring harness. The Main PCB has an EEPROM controlling operations of a scanner and an MSR. The mobile tablet device has mobile applications which allow wireless communication in the form of Wi-Fi or wireless cellular with a POS store systems server and corporate ERP system, and also commands the EEPROM. Merchandise to be purchased is scanned and received by the mobile tablet device and then sent wirelessly to the POS store systems server and corporate ERP system to obtain product data concerning description, price, inventory, electronic and physical coupon, promotions, customer loyalty data and rewards. |
| 主权项 |
1. A mobile scanner gun system adapted to receive a mobile tablet device for processing a retail store purchase, comprising:
a) a mobile tablet device removably mounted on said mobile scanner gun system and having mobile application software providing Wi-Fi and wireless cellular secure communicative capability with a POS store systems server in a retail store, which is connected to a corporate ERP system; b) said mobile tablet device being attached to barcode scanner and MSR devices through a specialized universal serial bus wiring harness; c) said mobile tablet device having a previously programmed electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) controlling all actions of said USB barcode scanner and a gun trigger input devices for activating a scan operation of an item of interest to a customer by an employee of a retail establishment; d) activating said scan operation causing said EEPROM of the Main PCB to communicate with said mobile tablet device, launching said application software to ready said mobile tablet device for receiving a scanned barcode; e) said Main PCB having a previously programmed electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) controlling all actions of said USB MSR input device by swiping a customer payment card through the MSR slot for processing customer payment through the proper secured bank card processing network; f) activating said MSR operation causing said EEPROM to communicate with said mobile tablet device, launching said application software to ready said mobile tablet device for receiving customer payment card data; g) said application communicating with said corporate ERP system to obtain detailed information for daily inventory management purposes for such tasks as physical inventory, cycle counting, inventory receiving, store to store transfers, return to vendor and product re-ticketing; h) said application software communicating with said store systems server to obtain detailed information of the product scanned, its inventory, selling price , electronic and physical coupons, available promotions and customer loyalty data and rewards and displaying product data on a display screen of said mobile tablet device; i) said employee of the retail establishment communicating to a customer the detailed information of the product scanned, its inventory, selling price , electronic and physical coupons, available promotions and customer loyalty data and rewards of each item scanned; j) said customer deciding to purchase the item and the employee accessing a sales transaction routine of said mobile POS application software, entering customer name, address and e-mail address if not already in customer loyalty database and swiping customer data, and said mobile tablet device communicating formatted customer data securely to said store systems server; k) said POS store systems server contacting a bank card processing authority authorizing said purchase and communicating to the mobile tablet device that the customer has purchased the scanned merchandise; l) said corporate ERP system adjusting said product inventory visible chain-wide and sending a receipt therefor to the e-mail address of the customer if requested, and printing a hard copy of the transaction on a central printer; m) said mobile tablet device being operative, in the event that said authorization is denied, to inform the employee of this credit denial on the mobile tablet device display and alternate payment requested, so that said customer is informed; whereby the customer purchases merchandise from any retail store employee having a mobile scanner gun system receiving full product details, price and promotions and charges the purchase in a friendly, efficient, informative atmosphere without having the need to bring the merchandise to a central checkout station and waiting in queue to check out. |
