SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TRANSACTION SERVICES TO A PLURALITY OF USER DEVICES
First Claim
1. A system for providing access to a plurality of services from service providers to users at remote locations, comprising:
- a plurality of resource managers, each disposed at a given one of the remote locations, each of the resource managers interfacing with a user through one or more physical resources to provide access to a to a user selected one of the services;
a central processing center for communicating with each of the plurality of resource managers and with each of the plurality of services providers and operating in conjunction with the resource managers to execute a predetermined sequence of actions for accessing a desired one of the services from the service providers providing such service;
wherein some of the plurality of resource managers requesting a desired one of the services and managing the one or more physical resources required for execution of a portion of the predetermined sequence of actions required for the requested service to interface with a user; and
the central processing center executing the remaining portion of the predetermined sequence of actions required for the requested service to interface with a user.
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Abstract
A system for providing access to a plurality of services from third party service providers to users at remote locations includes a plurality of resource managers having associated physical system resources for enabling a user to access a user selected service each resource manager including a processing platform with an operating system running thereon, a data store, including configuration information for each of the services available to a user through the resource manager, wherein there are multiple configurations associated with different ones of the predetermined services and one or more of the available physical system resources, and central processing center that communicates with each of the plurality of resource managers to enable or disable selected ones of the services on given ones of the resource managers based upon predetermined criteria and operates in conjunction with the resource managers to execute predetermined sequences of actions for accessing user selected ones of the services from the service providers providing such services.
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1. A system for providing access to a plurality of services from service providers to users at remote locations, comprising:
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a plurality of resource managers, each disposed at a given one of the remote locations, each of the resource managers interfacing with a user through one or more physical resources to provide access to a to a user selected one of the services; a central processing center for communicating with each of the plurality of resource managers and with each of the plurality of services providers and operating in conjunction with the resource managers to execute a predetermined sequence of actions for accessing a desired one of the services from the service providers providing such service;
wherein some of the plurality of resource managers requesting a desired one of the services and managing the one or more physical resources required for execution of a portion of the predetermined sequence of actions required for the requested service to interface with a user; andthe central processing center executing the remaining portion of the predetermined sequence of actions required for the requested service to interface with a user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for providing access to a plurality of services from third party service providers to users at remote locations, comprising:
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a plurality of resource managers, each including associated physical system resources for enabling a user to access a user selected service available through the resource manager, each of the resource managers including a processing platform with an operating system running thereon; each of the resource managers further comprising a data store, including configuration information for each of the services available to a user through the resource manager, wherein there are multiple configurations associated with different ones of the predetermined services and one or more of the available physical system resources; and a central processing center for communicating with each of the plurality of resource managers to enable or disable selected ones of the services on given ones of the resource managers based upon predetermined criteria and operating in conjunction with the resource managers to execute predetermined sequences of actions for accessing user selected ones of the services from the service providers providing such services. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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