Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1988-12-28
1991-06-25
Ruggiero, Joseph
Boots, shoes, and leggings
235381, 364138, 364465, G06F 1546
Patent
active
050272829
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to pump systems more particularly but not exclusively the invention relates to gasoline pump interactive systems.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
For many years gasoline pumps were mechanical devices. They did not accept payment from customers prior to allowing the customer to pump gas. In self service operations, customers would often drive away from the station without paying for gas which they had pumped into their cars.
These mechanical devices did not keep track of transaction data for individual transactions.
In order to diagnose any problems the pump may have had, a serviceman was required to actually be at the pump location.
In the electronic age pumps are made to operate on electronic systems. These electronic pumps can accept prepayment when equipped with a card and note reading facility. Transaction data is displayed to customers via liquid crystal displays similar in function and layout to the mechanical display system used in mechanical pumps. The electronic pump can keep track of transaction data for itself.
Neither the mechanical pump nor the electronic pump is very user friendly. A customer encountering the pump for the first time is often intimidated by the cold look of the solely numerical display and the separate card and note reader. Even to a veteran self service pump user, pump problems encountered during use can cause this feeling of intimidation. The provision of a long list of printed instructions does not improve the situation.
The object of the invention is to provide improved prepayment, point of sale information, display, instruction, remote system problem diagnostic, and remote problem correction capabilities.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An interactive pump system capable of interacting with and responding to responses from a user, comprises; a pump means; a central processing unit connected to the pump means; and a display and input means including a plurality of instruction displays, and being connected to the pump means and the central processing unit; wherein the pump means transmits transaction data concerning fluid pumped to the display and input means which displays the transaction data, displays one instruction display, and transfer input responses from a user to the central processing unit, and the central processing unit processes the input responses and controls the pump means according to the responses.
The invention can be capable of taking a user through a transaction with step by step instruction displays dependant on the input responses of the user.
Additionally the central processing unit can concurrently run separate tasks controlling the pump means and the display and input means, and an application task receiving and processing the input responses and transferring resultant pump directions to the task controlling the pump means.
The means of control may include the transfer of commands to, and receiving of responses from, the pump means and the display and input means. The display and input means processing the responses from the user and transferring resultant requests to the application task. The application task processing the requests and transferring directions to the pump task.
Similarly the pump task can be capable of processing responses from the pump means and transferring resultant pump requests to the application task. The application task would be capable of processing the requests and transferring resultant directions to the display and input task. The display and input task processes the display and input directions.
The system can employ a queue and queue task controlling the queue. The queue would accept requests from the controlling tasks and transfer them to the application task when required. Thus the system is capable of responding to responses from any of the controlling tasks.
The display and input means may be divided into separate display means and input means. Correspondingly the display and input task would be divided into a display task and an input task with corresponding command, response, requests, and dire
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patent: 4589069 (1986-05-01), Endo et al.
patent: 4630754 (1986-12-01), Komukai
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