Internet access device to facilitate financial services at a fuel dispenser
First Claim
1. A system for use in a fuel dispenser environment, comprising:
- a connection facility enabling connection to a communications network;
data means for providing at least one resource identifier each specifying a host resource in said communications network; and
access means, operatively coupled to said connection facility, for accessing the host resource specified by a one of the at least one resource identifier and for receiving information retrieved therefrom.
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Abstract
An Internet-enabled fuel dispenser includes a card reader adapted to retrieve a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) data element from a portable card encoded with the URL information and carried by the customer. A client machine at the dispenser position accesses the World Wide Web server specified by the retrieved URL data element and receives a Web page downloaded from the accessed server. The Web page includes customer financial information representing various payment options such as digital cash and credit card account numbers. The Web page is presented for viewing on a graphical user interface (GUI) touch-screen display that enables the customer to select one of the displayed payment options and thereby initiate further processing of the refueling transaction request by submitting the payment selection to the refueling point-of-sale (POS) facility.
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28 Claims
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1. A system for use in a fuel dispenser environment, comprising:
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a connection facility enabling connection to a communications network;
data means for providing at least one resource identifier each specifying a host resource in said communications network; and
access means, operatively coupled to said connection facility, for accessing the host resource specified by a one of the at least one resource identifier and for receiving information retrieved therefrom. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system for use in a fuel dispenser environment having a plurality of dispenser positions, said system comprising:
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connection means for enabling connection to a communications network;
each dispenser position respectively comprising;
a mechanism to provide at least one resource identifier each specifying a host resource in said communications network, and an access device to access the host resource specified by a one of the at least one resource identifier and to receive information retrieved therefrom. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An apparatus for use in combination with a fuel dispenser environment and a communications network, said apparatus comprising:
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a connection device to connect to said communications network;
a mechanism to provide at least one Uniform Resource Locator (URL) data element each specifying a host resource in said communications network; and
an access device to access the host resource specified by a one of the at least one resource identifier and to receive information retrieved therefrom. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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