Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Finance
Patent
1996-04-18
1999-03-23
Voeltz, Emanuel Todd
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Finance
37520042, 705 35, 705 41, G06F 1260
Patent
active
058872736
ABSTRACT:
An offering plate that permits an attender at a religious service to make a donation that consists of a cash donation acceptor, an envelope donation acceptor, a credit card donation processor, and/or a debit card donation processor. The offering plate associates a donation with an account of a member, tallies information regarding a number of donations, and stores information regarding a donation, and a plurality of donations. The offering plate is part of an offering plate network which consists of an offering plate, a clergy member's terminal, and a communication link between the offering plate and the clergy member's terminal. The offering plate network collects, analyzes, and displays statistical information.
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Hughet William N.
Todd Voeltz Emanuel
Ziarno Witold
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