Abstract: A relay device, expansion board, coupon issuing system, control method for a relay device, and a program enable adding a coupon issuing function at a low cost. A coupon-issuing control unit that generates and outputs coupon print data corresponding to receipt print data to a printer provides a relay device that has an expiration information acquisition unit that acquires expiration information corresponding to a product code, a coupon-issuing period calculation unit that calculates a coupon-issuing period from the expiration information, a coupon print data generating unit that generates coupon print data when the current date and time is in the coupon-issuing period, and a coupon print data output unit that outputs coupon print data to the printer.

Abstract: A processing system for managed prepaid cards can be introduced at low cost without requiring changing POS terminals. An expansion board is used connected to an activation server that activates prepaid cards, a barcode scanner, and a POS terminal. The expansion board has a product information acquisition unit that acquires product information from the barcode scanner; a product information discrimination unit that determines if the acquired product information is for a managed prepaid card that requires activation; a product information conversion unit that converts the product information to product information data that can be interpreted by the POS terminal; a product information data output unit that outputs the product information data to the POS terminal; and an activation request unit that sends the product information with an activation request to the activation request for validation.

Abstract: When a CPU issues an instruction conforming to a second architecture, the instruction is accepted by an I/O acceptance device within a subcontroller. If an event is set in an SMI status display device in accordance with the contents of the instruction, an SMI generation device simultaneously outputs an SMI signal to the CPU. If that happens, an SMM handler executes given processing corresponding to the event, and a translated instruction is transferred to a first device control device. An instruction that can be translated by hardware circuitry is translated by an instruction translation device that comprises microcode memory. This ensures that a first device control device can be used as a structural component of hardware of a second architecture. It also allows the implementation of compatibility with a number of different computer architectures.