18789614. INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS (TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA)
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS
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Takahiro Ogisu of Izunokuni Shizuoka JP
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18789614 titled 'INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS
Original Abstract Submitted
A store system includes a plurality of point-of-sale (POS) terminals each installed at a store; and an edge device connectable to the POS terminals via a store network for executing sales data processing on sales data generated by the POS terminals. The edge device includes a plurality of circuit boards, each of which can operate as a primary board or a secondary board and is configured to, when operating as the primary board: acquire a request for executing the sales data processing from a POS terminal, assign the sales data processing to another circuit board that is operating as the secondary board, and output a result of the sales data processing to the POS terminal.