AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION SYSTEM

• US 3,573,739 A
• Filed: 04/22/1968
• Issued: 04/06/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard A. Zeitlin
• Original Assignee: Richard A. Zeitlin
• Inventors: Zeitlin, Richard A.
• Application Number:
  US04/722,980
• Time in Patent Office: 1,079 Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.32
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/22 using successive scanning, e.g. polling G06F13/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/1008 Personal calling arrangements or devices, i.e. paging systems selective calling systems and call receivers H04W84/00, H04W68/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A computer compatible system with apparatus for the automatic registration of status information of persons or articles; the automatic registration and assignment of a portable device to a particular person or place; the registration of ancillary data pertaining to persons or articles; and the retrieval of all such information and data; wherein access to a remote memory device is provided at a plurality of locations, each location independently operable through a time multiplexed scanning system.

Claims

1. A system for storing and retrieving information relating to the presence or absence of predetermined individuals from a facility, and the status of predetermined articles related to said facility for facilitating temporary arbitrary association of any one of said individuals with any one of said articles said system including:

a plurality of access stations distributed about said facility, each being responsive at a first predetermined data entry point to a first multibit data input in a format related to said predetermined individuals and being responsive at a second predetermined data entry point to a second multibit data input in a format related to said predetermined articles for providing a multibit data signal indicating said arbitrary association of one of said individuals with one of said articles;

a memory selectively responsive to said multibit data signal in accordance with an IN signal and an OUT signal, said memory storing said multibit data signal in response to said IN signal and removing said multibit data signal, if already contained therein in response to said OUT signal so that the association of any one of said predetermined individuals with any one of said articles may be entered for storage or removed from storage in said memory; and

means located at each of said access stations for selectively providing said IN signal and said OUT signal so that said arbitrary association can be established at any of said plurality of access stations and said arbitrary association can be disestablished at the same or any other of said plurality of access stations.

2. A system as described in claim 1 in which said first predetermined entry point is actuated by a card having a plurality of recesses therein.

3. The system as defined in claim 2 in which said second predetermined entry point is actuated by conductive patterns on a printed circuit card.

4. The system as defined in claim 3 and also including:

a radio receiver having an edge; and

means for affixing said printed-circuit card to said radio receiver with said conductive patterns extending beyond said edge for contacting said second predetermined entry point.

5. The system as defined in claim 1 in which said first predetermined entry point is actuated by a decimal switch.

6. The system as defined in claim 1 in which said first predetermined entry point is actuated by operation of a 10-key keyboard.

7. The system as defined in claim 1 in which said first predetermined entry point is actuated by operation of a rotary dial switch.

8. The system as defined in claim 1 in which said second predetermined entry point is responsive to a printed-circuit card having conductive patterns thereon.

9. The system as defined in claim 8 also including:

a radio receiver having an edge; and

means for affixing said printed-circuit card to said radio receiver with said conductive patterns extending beyond said edge for contacting said second predetermined entry point.

10. The system as defined in claim 1 also including:

means responsive to a third multibit data input in a format related to said predetermined individuals for selectively retrieving data from said memory related to the arbitrary association of said predetermined individuals with said predetermined radio receivers.

11. The system as defined in claim 1 in which said predetermined articles are radio receivers.