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Trusted transactional internet kiosk

  • US 7,565,353 B2
  • Filed: 05/21/2001
  • Issued: 07/21/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An electronic kiosk comprising:

  • a processor for controlling the kiosk;

    a network interface to interface with a computer network;

    a user interface enabling user interaction with the processor and initiation of a transaction with a remote server coupled to the computer network, the transaction including a plurality of execution sequences and associated plurality of critical states, anda non-volatile cache memory configured to selectively store a context of the transaction, the context of the transaction including all information that is necessary for the processor to resume execution of the transaction at a beginning of an interrupted one of the plurality of execution sequences;

    a context data save engine controlled by the processor for selectively storing the context of the transaction to the non-volatile cache memory at each of the plurality of critical states, anda context data recovery engine controlled by the processor for retrieving the stored context from the non-volatile cache memory to enable the processor to resume and to complete execution of the transaction from the beginning of the interrupted execution sequence.

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