Patents Assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holding Corporation
  • Computing device docking systems
    Patent number: 9429993
    Abstract: Computing device docking systems are disclosed. According to an aspect, a computing device docking system includes a docking station component having an opening defined within a surface. The system includes a pin including a body and an end having a member extending laterally from the body. The end of the pin is receivable within an opening of a computing device component for attaching the computing device component to the docking station. The pin is moveable within the opening between a first position and a second position. In the first position, at least a portion of the body and at least a portion of the member is positioned within the opening of the docking station component. In the second position, at least a portion of the body is within the opening and the member is outside of the opening of the docking station component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff D. Thomas, Dean F. Herring, Brad M. Johnson, Robert A. Myers, Danny Addison, Phillip McLamb
  • Method, computer program product, and system for providing a sensor-based environment
    Patent number: 9424601
    Abstract: Method, computer program product, and system to facilitate a checkout transaction for a person within an environment having a plurality of items. The method includes determining, using a visual sensor disposed within the environment, image information associated with the person. The method further includes analyzing the image information to identify one or more of the plurality of items that are selected by the person to be presented during the checkout transaction. In some cases, the method also includes determining whether the identified items belong to a predetermined class of items deemed to be “difficult.” The method further includes determining, based on the one or more identified items, a level of assistance to provide to the person during the checkout transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susan Winter Brosnan, Daniel Robert Goins, Patricia Stephany Hogan, David Christopher Klages, Jessica Suzanne King Snead
  • POINT-OF-SALE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND SYSTEM THEREOF FOR OUTPUTTING RECEIPT IMAGE FOR A CAMERA OF A PERSONAL COMPUTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160203456
    Abstract: POS apparatus, control method, and system thereof for outputting receipt image for a camera of a personal computing device. According to an aspect, a POS apparatus includes a computing device including a CPU and a memory, where the computing device is configured to execute a commodity registration process and a settlement processing, and a receipt image output device coupled to the computing device is configured to output a receipt image for camera image capture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dean Frederick HERRING, Brad M. JOHNSON, Jeffrey SMITH, Seth TEEPLES
  • Receipt printer configurable for full or partial cut
    Patent number: 9387707
    Abstract: A paper tape printer includes a receipt printer and a scissor cutter for cutting off a receipt from a paper tape. The scissor cutter includes: a moving blade having a fixed range of motion; and an adjustable stationary blade, which is stationary during a cutting operation and is moveable laterally relative to the moving blade to allow the paper tape to be selectively (i) fully cut when the stationary blade is positioned for a full cut of the paper tape, or (ii) partially cut, when the stationary blade is repositioned laterally to a partial cut position relative to the moving blade, which enables a partial cut of the paper tape. If a full cut is desired, the stationary blade is positioned against the full width of the paper tape. For a partial cut, the stationary blade is positioned against only a portion of the width of the paper tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Andrew Myers
  • Detecting primitive events at checkout
    Patent number: 9299229
    Abstract: Techniques for detecting one or more events are provided. The techniques include identifying one or more segments in a video sequence as one or more candidates for one or more events by a temporal ordering of the one or more candidates, and analyzing one or more motion patterns of the one or more candidates to detect the one or more events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Russell Patrick Bobbitt, Quanfu Fan, Arun Hampapur, Frederik Kjeldsen, Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti, Akira Yanagawa, Yun Zhai
  • Reconfigurable checkout station
    Patent number: 9275382
    Abstract: A checkout station for a retail store is configurable between an employee-assisted mode and a self-service mode. In the employee-assisted mode, the checkout station is positioned on a checkout lane and a merchant operates the checkout station to checkout a customer from the store. In the self-service mode, the checkout station is positioned on the opposite side of the checkout lane and the customer performs the checkout functions with little or no help from the merchant. A motor in the checkout station is controlled to move the entire checkout station laterally across the checkout lane in response to receiving reconfiguration commands from the merchant. The reconfiguration commands may also control the checkout station to raise or lower its vertical height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Thierry Dubois, Pierre Luguern, Catherine Mengin
  • Server, information communication terminal, product sale management method, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor
    Patent number: 9218617
    Abstract: A product retail sales management server for managing the retail sales of a product across a communication network comprises: a retail sales management module for managing the retail sales of the product; a price update module 13 for dynamically setting the price of the product in accordance with rules and the retail sales state of the product and in accordance with the actual retail sales state of the product when managed by the retail sales management module; and an acceptance module 11 for, upon the receipt of an information request via the communication network, furnishing a request transmission source with the information concerning the product and the price of the product, set by the price update module at the time the information request is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naishin Seki, Hideki Tai
  • PER-ITEM SECURITY CHECKS DURING SELF CHECKOUT PROCESSES
    Publication number: 20150347997
    Abstract: System, method, and computer program product to determine whether to apply a security check to items during a self-checkout process, by, responsive to receiving identification information for an item, generating a random number for the item, and upon determining that the random number exceeds a security value, applying the security check to the item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory Harris DELOTT, Scott Andrew MARTIN, Ankit SINGH
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVERTISING BASED ON A CONTEXT OF USE OF A COMPUTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150339725
    Abstract: Systems and methods for advertising based on a context of use of a computing device are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving advertisement content for presentation on a computing device. The method also includes determining a context of use of the computing device by a user. Further, the method includes determining supplemental content for presentation with the advertisement content based on the context of use. The method also includes presenting the advertisement content and the supplemental content via the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Divya Padmanabha, Kavita Prasad, Prakash Krishnan
  • ADVERTISING FOR SENSOR-ENABLED CLOTHING
    Publication number: 20150339726
    Abstract: A system, computer program product, and method for advertising that include coupling a body-worn sensor device associated with an article of clothing to a receiver, and retrieving data from the sensor device. The retrieved data includes one or more measures indicating a state of wear of the article of clothing. The method further includes generating an advertisement based on the retrieved data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dean Frederick Herring, Brad Matthew Johnson, Jason Monsak Chirakansakcharoen, Jeffrey John Smith
  • Abbreviated Authentication of an Electronic Device's User
    Publication number: 20150324560
    Abstract: A method authenticates a user of an electronic device located in and affiliated with a retail environment. The method includes prohibiting certain operations from being performed on the electronic device in a locked state. The method also includes, responsive to a user authenticating himself or herself through an authentication process, allowing those certain operations to be performed on the electronic device in an unlocked state. The method further entails configuring an extent to which the authentication process required for authentication at any given time is abbreviated. The method performs this configuring depending on whether operations performed on the electronic device at or within a defined interval before the given time are included in a defined list of operations. This defined list includes operations performed in the course of business associated with the retail environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Smith, Brad M. Johnson, Randall C. Humes, Dean Frederick Herring
  • Abbreviated User Authentication for a Retail-Affiliated Device
    Publication number: 20150324780
    Abstract: A method authenticates a user of an electronic device located in and affiliated with a retail environment. The method includes prohibiting certain operations from being performed on the electronic device in a locked state. The method also includes, responsive to a user authenticating himself or herself through an authentication process, allowing those certain operations to be performed on the electronic device in an unlocked state. The method further entails configuring an extent to which the authentication process required for authentication at any given time is abbreviated. The method performs this configuring depending on a level of customer activity detected within the retail environment with which the electronic device is affiliated and in which the electronic device is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Smith, Brad M. Johnson, Randall C. Humes, Dean Frederick Herring
  • PRINTER COVER OPENING METHOD AND MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20150314624
    Abstract: A printer that may be part of a point of sales terminal. The printer includes a latching mechanism that helps hold the printer's cover in the closed position when latched, but allows the cover to open when unlatched. The latching mechanism is automatically moved to an unlatched state by reversing the paper feed motor. Related methods of operating a printer are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Richard Hunter Harris
  • Customer checkout accelerator
    Patent number: 9171432
    Abstract: A system and method for accelerating customer sales transactions in a retail store. A customer checkout accelerator provides a customer user interface to initiate a request for a preapproval amount for a sales transaction before reaching the point of sale terminal for completion of the purchase transaction. A card reader integrated into the customer checkout accelerator reads a customer payment card number when the payment card is swiped through the reader. A customer checkout accelerator server module resident on a store controller server determines a preapproval amount for the sales transaction and transmits the request to an external card services system for payment approval. The customer checkout accelerator also provides the ability to purchase additional promotional items in the checkout lane with this process integrated into the payment preapproval process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: John Kenyon Gerken, III, Thomas Joseph Prorock, William S. Werdel
  • System and method for replacing java beans
    Patent number: 9164740
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for reconfiguring application comprising a plurality of base code components at startup. A control application first retrieves the plurality of base components responsive to receiving a command to execute the application program. Prior to beginning execution, however, the control application replaces a selected base code component with another code component, and then subsequently replaces that newly inserted code component with yet another code component. Whether any given code component is to be replaced at startup is determined based on an annotation included in the code components. Once the application program has been reconfigured to include the appropriate code components, the application program is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Bobby Ray Hargett, Jr., Zachary McCain Darden, Christopher Louis Capps, Jarrad A. Giles
  • Display screen assembly having a selectively engageable mount assembly
    Patent number: 9164537
    Abstract: A display screen assembly is provided. The display screen defines a channel for allowing selective engagement of the display screen. A mount assembly is provided and includes a base for supporting the display screen assembly about a support surface, and a locking assembly that selectively engages the channel to thereby lock the mount assembly to the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Chiu-Jung Tsen, Zong-Han You, Cheng-Hong Chen, Wen-Yao Nien, Dean F. Herring, Jeff D. Thomas
  • Point of sale system with item image capture and deferred invoicing capability
    Patent number: 9159089
    Abstract: A novel and useful mechanism and method for processing transactions on a point of sale system comprising of a conveyor system which continuously moves when one ore more items or items are resting on the conveyor system, and a sensing system to capture the information necessary to identify the items on the conveyor. When all items are correctly recognized by the sensing devices, the customer is charged for the items and an invoice is printed. In the event all the items are not correctly recognized the captured information is forwarded to a remote location for automated recognition processing and manual identification, if necessary. Once all the items are successfully identified, the customer is charged for the purchase and an invoice is processed and sent to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ehud Dov Karnin, Eugeniusz Walach
  • INTELLIGENT RETAIL CONTAINER
    Publication number: 20150278790
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method that includes a retail container forming an enclosure for retaining a product, a measurement device for calculating an amount of the product removed from the container, an output unit causing a display device to display the removed amount and a total price of the removed amount, a printing device for encoding a representation of the total price onto a label, and a controller for updating an inventory system based on the removed amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Anil Jain
  • Universal serial bus (USB) plug system
    Patent number: D753662
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Stacy Arrington, Timothy Crockett, Jose Figueroa
  • Universal serial bus (USB) plug system
    Patent number: D762586
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Crockett, Stacy Arrington, Jose Figueroa