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Card authorization terminal system in which one terminal transmits data to a designated other terminal

  • US 4,935,608 A
  • Filed: 03/30/1988
  • Issued: 06/19/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A card authorization terminal system comprising:

  • a data transmission line;

    a plurality of card authorization terminals connected to said data transmission line and;

    a terminal group management apparatus connected to said plurality of terminals, via said data transmission line, said group management apparatus managing data communications between said terminals and a host computer for a card authorization processing initiated at one of said terminals, at least one of said terminals being able to send data to another one of said terminals without the data passing through the group management apparatus, said at least one terminal comprising;

    memory means from which and into which data can be read out and written;

    data transmitting means for transmitting and receiving data through the data transmission line;

    transmission instructing means through which an operator instructs the transmission of data to said another one of said terminals; and

    control means for reading out the storage data from said memory means in accordance with an output of said transmission instructing means, and for controlling said data transmitting means to transmit said read out storage data to said another one of said terminals.

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