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Systems and apparatus for electronic communication and storage of time encoded information

  • US 5,734,891 A
  • Filed: 06/12/1996
  • Issued: 03/31/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An electronic personal library apparatus for use in a system for providing, on an accountable basis, user requested library information for display, the system including a transportable data storage medium, a centralized computer having a central information storage bank in which may be entered and stored various selectable items of library information, in electronic form, and a localized book bank unit communicatively coupled to said centralized computer, the book bank unit including a book bank memory for receiving and storing selected library information provided from the central information storage bank of the centralized computer, an interface adapted to engage the data storage medium and to communicate thereto user requested library information from the selected library information provided from the central information storage bank of the centralized computer to the book bank unit, the user requested library information communicated from the book bank unit to the data storage medium being time encoded, and a processor for controlling such communication of the requested library information to the book bank unit and the exchange of accountability data with the centralized computer, said electronic personal library apparatus comprising:

  • a display,an interface adapted to engage the user'"'"'s data storage medium,a keypad input unit, anda microprocessor, said microprocessor programmed to limit access to the user requested library information communicated from the book bank unit to the data storage medium in accordance with the time encoded information transmitted with the information,said electronic personal library apparatus operable to display, in response to data entered by a user at said keypad input unit, desired library information from the library information communicated to the data storage medium.

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