Home merchandise ordering telecommunications terminal

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1984-11-07

1987-03-31

George, Keith E.

Telephonic communications

Telephone line or system combined with diverse electrical...

Having transmission of a digital message signal over a...

379 91, H04M 1100

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046544828

ABSTRACT:
A terminal provides for ordering merchandise from any one of a plurality of merchants over the direct distance dial telephone network while remaining at home. Printed merchandise codes are electronically read by a wand of a bar code reader that is passed thereacross, automating data entry. Separate or integral memory cartridges carry a set of recognition data for each merchant order receiving device, the recognition data being required to validate the entry of an order in an order receiving device. A liquid crystal character display, indicator lights and user actuated switches provided for guiding a user through the ordering sequence for each merchant.

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A. Turbat, "Telepayment and Electronic Money, The Smart Card", Communication & Transmission, Pub. by Sotelec, Paris, Dec. 1982, pp. 11-20.

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