Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Credit or identification card systems
Patent
1995-06-13
1997-06-10
Hajec, Donald T.
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Credit or identification card systems
235380, G06F 708
Patent
active
056378459
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for controlling and monitoring credit card transactions of a vending machine which dispenses and or encodes prepaid cards. Means are provided for reading magnetically stored information from a credit card, receiving an authorization amount for the transaction from a credit verification source which is external to the vending machine, storing the authorization amount, selecting a prepaid amount to be encoded on a prepaid card, determining whether a selected prepaid amount is below a maximum allowed transaction amount, controlling the encoding of a prepaid card in response to a selected prepaid amount, and storing transaction information corresponding to the operation of the prepaid card vending machine and the magnetic information from the credit card.
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Hajec Donald T.
Tremblay Mark
USA Technologies Inc.
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