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Unattended POS system for automatic control of bank system rejections

  • US 6,092,057 A
  • Filed: 12/12/1997
  • Issued: 07/18/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A point-of-sale (POS) system for processing a sales transaction and a vending operation initiated by a data card at an unattended point-of-sale device:

  • a card reader including a hot list, said card reader designed to read data from said data card, to determine a type of data card being used, to compare the read data with said hot list, and to produce a hot list status indication of the read data; and

    a network controller designed to be communicatively coupled to said card reader and to process said sales transaction and said vending operation according to both said type of data card and said hot list status indication wherein said hot list comprises new and old entries and wherein said new entries become designated as old entries at a predetermined time.

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