DOCUMENT-CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS

• US 3,602,695 A
• Filed: 06/19/1967
• Issued: 08/31/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/1967
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bruce Boss
• Original Assignee: Bruce Boss
• Inventors: Boss, Bruce
• Primary Examiner(s): Cook, Daryl W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kilgore, Robert M.
• Application Number:
  US04/646,999
• Time in Patent Office: 1,534 Days
• Field of Search: 235/61.71,61.7,61.11R 340/149A 194/4
• US Class Current: 235/381
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3437 the counter having non-monetary units, e.g. trips
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/02 by keys or other credit registering devices

Abstract

A system employing document coding includes a first means for storing data read from an encoded document and a second means for storing a code generated independently of the document data. The codes stored in the first and second means are compared and a comparison signal is generated when a relation of one sense exists between the document data and the independently generated code. A new code is generated in response to the comparison signal and transferred to a document while simultaneously, in response to said comparison signal, performing a second desired function.

Claims

1. A method of document coding comprising:

sensing a credit limit from data encoded on said document, storing the credit limit data sensed from a presented document in a first means, storing article coded data introduced into said system independently of said document in a second means, comparing the contents of said first and second means, generating an article-dispensing signal when the data in said first means bears a relation of one sense to the data in said second means, combining the data stored in the first means with the second means in response to the generated signal thereby producing new coded data, and coding said presented document in response to said articledispensing signal with said new data and releasing said document from the system.

2. The method of claim 1 including the step of printing the generated signal on a permanent record for storage in said system.

3. The method of claim 1 including the step of generating a second sense signal when the data in said first means bears a relation of a second sense to the data in said second means, and rejecting the coded document in response to a second sense signal.

4. The method of claim 1 including the step of dispensing an object identified by the independently generated data.

5. In an article-dispensing system actuated by a coded document, comprising:

a reader for sensing a credit limit from encoded data on said document and for generating a credit limit code, means for generating an article code representing an article selected to be dispensed, means for comparing the credit limit code with the generated article code and producing an article-dispensing signal where the credit limit code exceeds the article code, means responsive to the article-dispensing signal for subtracting the article code from the credit limit code to reflect the selected article and thereby reduce the credit limit, means for recoding said document with the encoded data repreSenting the reduced credit limit, and means responsive to the article-dispensing signal to release the selected article from the dispensing system.

6. In an article-dispensing system as set forth in claim 5 including:

means for generating a reject signal when a comparison of the credit limit code with the generated article code bears a relationship such that the article value exceeds the credit limit value, and means responsive to the reject signal to indicate said document is not acceptable to the system.

7. In an article-dispensing system as set forth in claim 5 wherein said reader is sensitive to magnetic data encoded on said document.

8. In an article-dispensing system as set forth in claim 5 wherein said reader is light responsive and the data on said document is in the form of punched holes.

9. In an article-dispensing system as set forth in claim 5 wherein the modified data is applied to a document in the form of a series of punched holes.

10. In an article-dispensing system actuated by a coded document, comprising:

a reader for sensing a credit limit from encoded data on said document and for generating a credit limit code, means for storing the credit limit code from said reader, means for generating an article code representing an article selected to be dispensed independently of said document, means for storing the generated article code introduced into said system independently of said document, means for comparing the contents of said first and second storing means and producing an article-dispensing signal when the credit limit exceeds the article value, means responsive to the article-dispensing signal for subtracting the article code in the second storing means from the credit limit code in the first storing means to reflect the selected article value to thereby reduce the credit limit, means responsive to the article-dispensing signal for applying encoded data representing the new credit limit to said document and for releasing said document from the system, and means responsive to the article-dispensing signal to release the selected article from the dispensing signal.

11. In an article-dispensing system as set forth in claim 10 including:

means for generating a reject signal when the code in said second storing means representing the value of an article selected is greater than a code in said first storing means representing a credit limit value, and means responsive to the reject signal to indicate the document is unacceptable to the system.

12. In an article-dispensing system as set forth in claim 10 including means for permanently storing in the system data from said first and second storing means.