Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Article handling
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-21
2010-12-28
Waggoner, Timothy R (Department: 3651)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Article handling
C700S242000, C700S244000, C221S097000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07860604
ABSTRACT:
A method for controlling access to and segregating items dispensed from a vending machine having a stock of said items, said method comprising:vending an item only when a control procedure is satisfied; storing a record indicating said vended item has been dispensed;if said vended item is not distributable to an authorized recipient; quarantining said vended item including inserting said vended item into a port on an exterior of said vending machine that conveys said inserted vended item to a secure repository in the interior of said machine; and updating said record to indicate said vended item has been returned to said machine.
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Waggoner Timothy R
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