POINT OF SALE NORMALIZATION AND EXTENSION SERVICES FOR INVOICE MANAGEMENT

摘要

A method and a device are disclosed including software components that run on a computing device to allow extension of services to customers of a provider of services and/or goods, such as a restaurant. The extension of services include remote pre-selection and pre-ordering of goods and services prior to making contact with a Point Of Sale (POS) by a customer, authorization and/or authentication of users, association of the customer with one of multiple POS via a Quick Response Code (QRC), updating of orders, adaptive learning of order patterns to generate customer profiles, recommendation of goods/services, normalization of data, separate billing for various payers, and the like. The software components provide a set of integrated interfaces for data communication between a customer's computing device, such as a smartphone, and the POS Normalization and Extension Services (POSNES), and between the POSNES and a business having one or more POS.