Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Accounting
Patent
1997-02-25
2000-11-07
Voeltz, Emanuel Todd
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Accounting
705 34, 705 50, 705 53, G06F 1760
Patent
active
061449466
ABSTRACT:
An accounting device of the invention cooperates with a terminal station to allow one to use information from an information provider, and includes a first input unit for inputting first data PIDi and PIDj regarding the contents of providing information, a second input unit for inputting second data TIDi and TIDj regarding the use of hardware to carry out the use of the providing information at the terminal station, a third input unit for inputting third data PPC indicative of money information, and a checking unit for discriminating between a permission and an inhibition (prohibition) of the use of the information at the terminal station by using at least one of the first and second, and third data. The checking unit outputs a discrimination result about the permission or inhibition of the use to the external of the accounting device, thereby properly prohibit illegal use of the terminal station and contributing to a spread of network terminal apparatus.
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Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Hayes John W.
Todd Voeltz Emanuel
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