Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Including point of sale terminal or electronic cash register
Patent
1995-09-25
2000-07-18
Swann, Tod R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Including point of sale terminal or electronic cash register
705 16, G06F 1760
Patent
active
060920521
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a method of capturing monetary donations or monetary gifts made by donors or gift givers at points in time and space in which said donors or gift givers are optimally motivated to make said donations or gifts, said donations or gifts being the donation or gift perferences of respective donors or gift givers. The method comprises the steps of inputting a multiplicity of sequences of data comprised of monetary donations or monetary gifts. The monetary donations or monetary gifts are made by a plurality of said respective donors or gift givers consecutively free of input of information unrelated to said respective monetary donations or monetary gifts at a multiplicity of distinct sites where said donations and gifts are being received in one variant. The sequences or strings of data are temporarily captured at the multiplicity of distinct sites on a plurality of respective electronic devices physically located at said sites to obtain temporarily captured sequences. The temporarily captured sequences are then transmitted from the electronic devices to a processing device remote from a plurality of said distinct sites for processing. The method further comprises the optional the step of statistically manipulating at least a respective sequence of said data. In one variant, the present invention provides a donation kettle for accepting information from an information bearing card. The electronic terminal includes means for tallying the amount of card donations accepted, and collecting, analyzing, and displaying information regarding the donation.
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Smithers Matthew
Swann Tod R.
Ziarno Witold
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