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Method, system and apparatus for teleprinting

  • US 5,173,935 A
  • Filed: 03/27/1989
  • Issued: 12/22/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a teleprinting method for periodically transmitting billing data to a user of a meter for measuring service and of allowing the user to control and pay the bill to a supplier of the service at a telephone user, the steps comprising:

  • collecting service data referred to a service utilized by the user from a user meter associated with a telephone installed at the telephone user to a central processor installed at a supplier location and storing said service data in a memory of said central processor;

    processing the service data and a corresponding service rate for the service data stored in the memory of the central processor to obtain a service charge related to a given period of time, including additional charges and taxes;

    assembling said service data, service rate and service charge with all other data related to the user and stored in the memory of the central processor and intended to be shown in a bill;

    periodically sending through said telephone at the telephone user the assembled data related to the user from the central processor installed at the user location and storing said data in a memory of said remote processor, said assembled data being sent through a communication line;

    sending a command from the central processor to the remote processor through said communication line for printing the data stored in said remote processor on a blank bill form available to the user at the supplier location; and

    printing the blank bill form supplied by the user to a printing machine, the resulting bill form being the document allowing the user to control the billed data and carry out payment for the service received.

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