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Arrangement for a pay telephone payment system utilizing a payment card within the telecommunication system

  • US 4,577,061 A
  • Filed: 05/07/1984
  • Issued: 03/18/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/07/1982
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A payment system for a public telephone service and an auxiliary public service unrelated to said telephone service comprising:

  • a remote telephone facility adapted to be connected by a subscriber line to a telephone network central office, said remote telephone facility including;

    a public telephone service facility offering telephone service in exchange or payment via a payment card comprising;

    a reading device means for reading and debiting a payment card, said reading device connected to said telephone network;

    a first set of telephone subsidiary devices for interfacing said reading device via said subscriber line and a central computer to said telephone network, whereby information may be transferred between said payment card and central computer identifying the identity of the payment card;

    a second set of telephone subsidiary devices for interfacing said reading device via said subscriber line to communicate the residual value of the payment card to the computer facility;

    a third set of telephone subsidiary devices for communicating the erasure of information on said payment card to said readng device, whereby said payment card can be debited;

    an auxiliary public service facility offering services in exchange for payment via a payment card comprising;

    an auxiliary reading device for reading and debiting a payment card which is issued for subscribing to said service;

    first, second and third auxiliary devices for interconnecting said auxiliary reading device via said subscriber line to said central computer and transmitting the identity of an auxiliary payment card, residual value of said card and erasure information for said card;

    said auxiliary devices and telephone devices including filter means for maintaining signals destined for said telephone facility and auxiliary facility separate from each other.

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