POS (Point Of Sale) terminal program updating method and system

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a POS (Point Of Sale) terminal program updating method and a POS terminal program updating system. The method comprises the steps that: the POS terminal establishes a connection with a remote management system and sends an inquiry; the remote management system searches an updating program corresponding to the POS terminal according to the inquiry, and determines that the program of the POS terminal needs to be updated after finding the updating program; the remote management system and the POS terminal perform a two-way authentication; the remote management system provides the updating program to the POS terminal if the authorization passes; and the POS terminal downloads the updating program and completes the updating, wherein the system comprises the POS terminal and the remote management system; the POS terminal is used for establishing the connection with the remote management system and sending the inquiry and downloading the updating program and completing updating; and the remote management system is used for searching the updating program corresponding to the POS terminal based on the inquiry, and determining that the program of the POS terminal needs to be updated if finding the updating program, and providing the updating program to the POS terminal.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of communication technology, in particular to a method and system for updating POS terminal programs. Background technique [0002] POS terminal (Point of sales terminal) means "point of sale" in Chinese, and its full name is point of sale information management system. It is a terminal reader equipped with barcode or optical character Barter quota cashier function. [0003] At present, POS terminals have been widely used in the transaction processing and recording of retail and service industries, such as banks, department stores, supermarkets, clothing industry, medical industry (hospital, pharmacy), entertainment and other places where consumption is required. terminal. The application of POS terminals enables enterprises to simplify the supply chain, facilitate self-service transactions, and reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining retail infrastructure. POS terminals have become an indispensable payment col...

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Problems solved by technology

At present, the upgrade and maintenance of POS terminals are mainly done by manually downloading from the serial port of the computer at the merchant site, that is, the maintenance personnel bring the computer with the upgrade program to the POS terminal site for manual download operation, which is a waste of manpower and material resources. Can not guarantee the timeliness of POS terminal program update

[0005] At present, in this technical field, there is a remote management system (Terminal Management System, referred to as TMS) that can remotely manage POS terminals. remote management, but the remote management system does not realize the process of mutual authentication between the management system and the POS terminal in the process of information interaction with the POS terminal, and the security is relatively low in a complex network environment, which brings difficulties for the normal use of the POS terminal. A certain degree of safety hazard

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