Credit check system having comparison of transmitted data

Claim 1

A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM BETWEEN A REMOTE AND A CENTRAL LOCATION COMPRISING, FIRST MEANS AT SAID REMOTE LOCATION FOR SIGNALING SAID CENTRAL LOCATION TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNICATIONS LINK, FIRST RECEIVER MEANS AT SAID CENTRAL LOCATION FOR GENERATING A SIGNAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT ESTABLISHMENT OF SAID COMMUNICATION LINK; FIRST DATA STORAGE MEANS AT SAID REMOTE LOCATION; SECOND MEANS AT SAID REMOTE LOCATION RESPONSIVE TO SAID ACKNOWLEDGMENT SIGNAL FOR TRANSMITTING THE ENCODED DATA IN SAID FIRST DATA STORAGE MEANS TO SAID CENTRAL LOCATION THROUGH SAID COMMUNICATIONS LINK, RECORDING MEANS AT SAID CENTRAL LOCATION CONNECTED TO SAID FIRST RECEIVER MEANS FOR PERMANENTLY RECORDING SAID ENCODED DATA; DATA PROCESSING MEANS FOR EVALUATING SAID ENCODED DATA STORED IN SAID RECORDING MEANS; SAID DATA PROCESSING MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO GENERATE A SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DATA EVALUATION; THIRD MEANS AT SAID REMOTE LOCATION RESPONSIVE TO SAID DATA PROCESSING MEANS OUTPUT SIGNAL FOR COMPARING THE ENCODED DATA IN SAID FIRST DATA STORAGE MEANS WITH THE ENCODED DATA RECEIVED AT SAID CENTRAL LOCATION; SAID DATA COMPARISON MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO TRANSMIT A SIGNAL TO SAID CENTRAL LOCATION UPON COMPLETION OF THE COMPARISON OPERATION, SAID DATA PROCESSING MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO RECORD SAID ENCODED DATA IN RESPONSE TO SAID DATA COMPARISON OUTPUT SIGNAL.