Point-of-sale (POS) systems that use a peripheral device for point-of-sale applications and methods of operating the same

摘要

A point-of-sale (POS) system includes a POS host terminal that includes a first POS management module that is configured to facilitate a POS transaction. A peripheral device, which may be for example, a smart card/debit card reader with an optional signature capture, is communicatively coupled to the POS host terminal and includes a second POS management module that is configured to facilitate the POS transaction with the POS host terminal being under the control of the peripheral device.