Telephone/Transaction Entry Device and System for Entering Transaction Data into Databases
First Claim
1. A portable telephone, comprising:
- telephone electronics which allows sending a voice call over a channel; and
a browser portion, which allows entry of information indicative of a transaction, and where said transaction is operating system independent.
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Abstract
A data transaction processing system in which transaction data is entered by the user in response to prompts in a template which is tailored to each user application. The template and entered data are accumulated into data transactions which are immediately transmitted upon completion to an external database server for processing and storage. The data transactions are not locally stored for processing, and no conventional operating system is necessary. No local processing needs to be provided, and the only local storage is a flash PROM which stored the control firmware, a flash memory which stores the data streams making up the forms and menus, and a small RAM which operates as an input/output transaction buffer for storing the data streams of the template and the user replies to the prompts during assembly of a data transaction. The data transaction is received via standard protocols at a database server which, depending upon the application, stores the entire data transaction, explodes the data transaction to produce ancillary records which are then stored, and/or forwards the data transaction or some or all of the ancillary records to other database servers for updating other databases associated with those database servers. Also, in response to requests from the transaction entry device, the database server may return data streams for use in completing the fields in the data transaction or in presenting a menu on the display which was read in from the database server or a remote phone mail system. The transaction entry device is integrated with a telephone and is accessed via a touch screen, an optional keyboard, a magnetic card reader, voice entry, a modem, and the like.
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26 Claims
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1. A portable telephone, comprising:
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telephone electronics which allows sending a voice call over a channel; and
a browser portion, which allows entry of information indicative of a transaction, and where said transaction is operating system independent. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A portable telephone, comprising:
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telephone electronics which allows sending a voice call over a telephone channels; and
a processing portion, including a data entry device, allowing data to be entered, a memory, storing data, a processor, running at least a browser that operates based on said data, and a display screen which displays information to a user, accepts responses from the user, and sends information indicative of said responses to a remote server. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A method, comprising:
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allowing, at a first time, a call to be made using the telephone;
at a second time, using the telephone to conduct a transaction with a remote server, based on specified data that is stored in the telephone, where the specified data is independent of operating system of the telephone. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method, comprising:
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allowing, at a first time, a call to be made using a telephone; and
at a second time, using the telephone to conduct a transaction with a remote server, based on specified data that is stored in the telephone, where the specified data includes forms indicative of multiple different transactions, and each form being associated with information indicative of a remote server that should obtain information from the form. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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24. A method, comprising:
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from a telephone, sending information to a remote server based on data that has been entered by a user at the telephone; and
sending a first portion of the information to a first fileserver that operates using a first operating system, and sending a second portion of the information to a second fileserver that operates using a second file system. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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