Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Credit or identification card systems
Patent
1981-06-29
1983-11-08
Pitts, Harold I.
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Credit or identification card systems
235379, 235380, G06K 500
Patent
active
044144679
ABSTRACT:
A terminal is provided at which a user can selectively preview or order a videocassette. The terminal comprises customer identification means for receiving information relative to the user; mode selection means enabling the user to choose a preview or order mode; cassette selection means for selecting and identifying a desired videocassette; terminal control means including a memory coupled to the customer identification means and the cassette selection means to receive and store information representative of the user, the data, and the selected videocassettes. Vending means are provided for storing a plurality of videocassettes and for selectively vending the selected videocassette; and vending control means are coupled to the terminal control means for communicating the information between the memory and the vending means to command the vending of the selected videocassette when the order mode has been selected. Preview display means coupled to the terminal control means receive the information and display a trailer corresponding to the selected videocassette when the preview mode has been selected.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3224544 (1965-12-01), Shoher
patent: 3718906 (1973-02-01), Lightner
patent: 4134537 (1979-01-01), Glaser
Gould George K.
Steinberg Eric
Pitts Harold I.
Video Corporation of America
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