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Transaction terminal with unlimited range of functions

  • US 3,970,992 A
  • Filed: 06/25/1974
  • Issued: 07/20/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/25/1974
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A transaction execution terminal comprising:

  • a card handling subsystem which receives cards and reads information stored on received cards under control of a control subsystem;

    a selectively variable display operating under control of a control subsystem and displaying information commanded by a control subsystem;

    a user keyboard having keys arranged in a plurality of keyboard fields with each keyboard field being related to a predetermined category of user transaction request information and including a plurality of keys each defining different mutually exclusive information states for the cetegory of user transaction request information to which the field relates, one key within at least one field being a variable information state key, the activation of which indicates that the information state indicated thereby is to be determined by a combination of at least one subsequent keyboard key activation in conjunction with a predeteremined schecule correlating key activation combinations with information states; and

    a control subsystem which controls the operation of the card handling subsystem and receives account card information therefrom, which commands the display of information on the variable display to aid a terminal user in the use of the terminal, and which receives keyboard key activtion information in a predetermined sequence requiring one information state indication from each of a plurality of successive keyboard fields.

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