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System for printing personalized charge-card service receipts at remote locations

  • US 5,173,594 A
  • Filed: 09/27/1991
  • Issued: 12/22/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for initiating the generation of a customer receipt at a selected location in response to customer use of a charge card activated system comprising the steps ofstoring in a computer a personal profile data base file for each customer including charge card data fields and target address data fields which include selected locations for generating customer receipts,storing in said computer a billing file for each customer including charge card data fields and transaction data fields in response to use of the charge card activated system, for each charge card data field in each of the billing file and the personal profile data base file there existing a corresponding transaction data field in the transaction data fields and a corresponding target address data field in the target address data fields that is used when a respective charge card data field in a billing file and a respective charge card data field in a personal profile data base file are matched,comparing in the computer the billing file for a using customer with the personal profile data base files to identify matching charge card data fields for the using customer in the personal profile data base files and the billing files,upon identification of such matching charge card data fields, generating and sending from the computer a first signal to a location indicated by said corresponding target address data field for a selected location for initiation of generation of the using customer'"'"'s receipt, andgenerating and sending from the computer a second signal, representative of said corresponding transaction data field, to initiate generation of the receipt for the using customer at the selected location.

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