Apparatus and method for lottery and point-of-sale transactions.

摘要

In a system for performing both lottery ticket transactions and merchandise sales transactions and maintaining a record of both, a group of lottery terminals (70) are coupled to a lottery controller (72) which is coupled to a central processing center. A POS (point of sale) terminal (68) and a bar code scanner (74) are coupled to each lottery terminal (70). The lottery terminal (70) can pass through information from the bar code scanner (74) to the POS terminal (68) through a scanner interface of the POS terminal (68) using a predetermined scanner data format and can also transmit lottery ticket information to the POS terminal (68) using a similar data format. A group of POS terminals (68) may be coupled to an in-store processor (102) to enable both lottery and merchandise data to be recognized and recorded. <IMAGE>