System for printing personalized charge-card service receipts at

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1991-09-27

1992-12-22

Weinhardt, Robert

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Systems controlled by data bearing records

Credit or identification card systems

235375, 235432, 364400, 379116, 379 91, G06F 1521

Patent

active

051735946

ABSTRACT:
A receipt generator which produces written receipts at locations remote to the location of use for a conventional charge-card activated system is disclosed. The charge-card activated system provides a telecommunications service and maintains billing records which are supplied at predetermined intervals, such as daily, to a receipt transmission computer. The receipt transmission computer communicates with a personal profile database that associates charge-card numbers with phone numbers assigned to the remote locations. Printing devices, such as facsimile machines, couple to phone lines at these remote locations. The receipt transmission computer identifies, through an examination of charge-card identifiers, particular ones of the billing records for which personal profile database entries exist. The receipt transmission computer then formats a text file for such records. For each of such records, this text file includes transaction parameters describing use of the service within the previous predetermined interval. Attempts are then made to send the text file to the phone number recorded in the personal profile database. When a successful attempt occurs, the written receipt is printed at the printing device in the remote location.

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