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Credit card billing system

  • US 4,939,352 A
  • Filed: 11/02/1989
  • Issued: 07/03/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/17/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A credit card billing system for use with an automated device for providing goods or services based upon input of a credit card, said credit card billing system comprising:

  • a card reader associated with said device and adapted to read card information from a credit card;

    computer means associatively linked with said card reader for controlling said device, said computer means being programmed to;

    read card information from said card reader, control said device to provide said goods or services, develop use information, store said use information, and periodically relay said use information to a central host system;

    a central host billing system (central host) communicatively linked to said branch computer, said central host being adapted to receive said use information from said computer means and to develop billing information.

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