Score processing system for use with ID cards

• US 4,268,744 A
• Filed: 12/05/1979
• Issued: 05/19/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Magtek Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Thomas C. Mcgeary
• Inventors: McGeary, Thomas C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cook, Daryl W.
• Application Number:
  US06/100,572
• Time in Patent Office: 531 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/419, 235/431, 235/432, 235/434, 235/92 GA
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2102/32 Golf
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/06 Indicating or scoring devices for games or players , or for other sports activities
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/00 Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus

Abstract

A system is disclosed for use in cooperation with identification cards which incorporate a magnetic stripe and which functions to preserve a record and control the effect of scoring data, as a golfer'"'"'s handicap. As disclosed herein, the system includes two components, a player unit and an office unit. The player unit processes the data on the identification card to issue score cards and indicate a player'"'"'s handicap. The functions of the office unit include: entering fresh scores which are used to develop new handicaps, verifying data on the card and clearing any signals from the card that have resulted from mis-use and which inhibit the player unit. The system includes security aspects that discourage score manipulation or mis-use.

Claims

1. A control system for scoring, as in golf, for operation with a card or the like, bearing a record medium comprising:

means for sensing said record medium to provide signals from a specific card identified with a specific person and representative of a scoring composite for that person;

a controlled access input panel for forming signals representative of a current score by said specific person;

computer means for receiving said signals representative of a current score and said signals representative of said scoring composite to compute a fresh scoring composite;

means for recording said signals on said card, updated to include said current score; and

means for regulating the operation of said means for recording to verify recording for said specific person on said specific card.

2. A system according to claim 1 wherein said means for regulating includes an input device for receiving confidential code data from said specific person.

3. A system according to claim 1 wherein said means for regulating includes means for recording on said card check signals indicative of a playing commitment and means controlled by said check signals for conditioning the operation of said means for recording.

4. A system according to claim 3 further including means for issuing a scorecard to manifest said playing commitment.

5. A system in accordance with claim 4 wherein said means for issuing a playing scorecard includes means for inprinting said scorecard with scoring information.

6. A system according to claim 1 wherein said means for regulating includes means for recording personal identification signals for said specific person on said card and means for displaying said personal identification upon the operation of said means for recording.

7. A control system for scoring, as in golf, for operation with a card or the like, bearing a record medium comprising:

a first structure including means for sensing said recording medium to provide signals from a specific card identified with a specific person and representative of a scoring composite for that person, a controlled access input panel for forming signals representative of a current score by said specific person, computer means for receiving said signals representative of a current score and said signals representative of said scoring composite to compute a fresh scoring composite, and means for recording said signals on said card, updated to include said current score; and

a second structure physically separate from said first structure and including means for issuing a score sheet and concurrently registering the fact of said issuance on said card.