US4573192A
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Assignee: ENGINEERED SYSTEMS Inc A CORP OF
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Filing: 1984-01-16
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Granted: 1986-02-25
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Expires: 2004-01-16
Abstract
Abstract In an information computer and data processing system where transactions controlled by the system are initiated and set up by a card inserted to a magnetic strip card reader, provisions are made to terminate the transaction and set the card out of the reader in response to certain conditions of the data supplied by the card reader to the system. Each card to be used with the system has a start character encoded at the beginning of characters corresponding to unique variable data identified by that card. An end character always appears at the end of the unique variable data, followed by an LRC (longitudinal redundancy check) character. Each character on the card also is provided with a parity check bit and a provision is made for detecting a parity or LRC error to terminate the transaction and to set the card out of the reader and to similarly terminate the transaction and set the card out of the reader whenever an end character is detected before a start character. A further provision is made for setting a card out of the reader whenever excessive clock pulses are produced by the reader to the rest of the system within a pre-established time limit.
Inventors
- 👤 Richard W. Roth
- 👤 William T. Gregor
- 👤 Michael D. Sherwood
- 👤 Ned Pokrajac
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-25 20:03
CPC Classifications
G; G07; G07F; G07F7/00; G07F7/08; G06; G06K; G06K13/00; G06K13/02; G06K13/06; G06K13/067; G06K7/00; G06K7/08; G06K7/082; G06K7/083; G06K7/084; G07F7/0806; G07F7/0833
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
180 words
For use wth a document reading system in which each document has data characters separated by a start character and an end character, a document presence indication and transaction termination system including in combination: means for reading a document inserted therein and producing signals on an output thereof representative of the sequence of characters encoded on such documents; identifying mean coupled to the output of said reading means for identifying at least said start and end characters and producing signals representative thereof; utilization means coupled with the output of said reading means for utilizing data signals supplied thereto corresponding to the data characters on said documents; and means coupled with said identifying means and coupled with at least said utilization means for initializing and maintaining a transaction operation in response to identification of a start character before an end character in the sequence of characters read by said reading means and for terminating a transaction operation initiated by a document in said reading means in response to identification of an end character before a start character by said identifying means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
180 words
For use wth a document reading system in which each document has data characters separated by a start character and an end character, a document presence indication and transaction termination system including in combination: means for reading a document inserted therein and producing signals on an output thereof representative of the sequence of characters encoded on such documents; identifying mean coupled to the output of said reading means for identifying at least said start and end characters and producing signals representative thereof; utilization means coupled with the output of said reading means for utilizing data signals supplied thereto corresponding to the data characters on said documents; and means coupled with said identifying means and coupled with at least said utilization means for initializing and maintaining a transaction operation in response to identification of a start character before an end character in the sequence of characters read by said reading means and for terminating a transaction operation initiated by a document in said reading means in response to identification of an end character before a start character by said identifying means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
43 words
The combination according to claim 1 wherein said transaction terminating means further is coupled with said reading means for terminating the reading of a document therein in response to the identification of an end character before a start character by said identifying means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
98 words
The combination according to claim 1 wherein said means for reading documents comprises a magnetic card reader and said documents comprise magnetically-encoded cards inserted therein, and wherein the data on said cards comprises a strip of binary magnetic coded characters in which the data characters are separated by a start character and an end character and in which the start character normally is read by said reading means at the beginning of a transaction and the end character is read by said reading means after the reading of data characters on the document by said magnetic card reader.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
53 words
The combination according to claim 1 further including timing means coupled wioth the output of said reading means and coupled with at least said utilization means for terminating a previously initiated transaction in said utilization means in the absence of signals on the output of said reading means for a predetermined time interval.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
81 words
The combination according to claim 1 wherein documents for use with the document reading system have the data thereon encoded with parity check information; said identifying means coupled with the output of said reading means further includes means for identifying a parity check error and producing a signal corresponding to such parity check error; and said transaction terminating means coupled with said identifying means also is responsive to such parity check error signal for terminating the transaction in said utilization means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
88 words
The combination according to claim 1 wherein said means for reading documents comprises a magnetic strip card reader; documents inserted into said card reader comprise magnetically-encoded cards in which the data thereon is read by said card reader to produce a series output signal on the output thereof; and said magnetic card reader further produces clock signals supplied to said identifying means for causing the decoding of data characters thereby at a variable rate determined by the speed of movement of a document card in said card reader.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
43 words
The combination according to claim 6 wherein said timing means is reset by clock pulses from said magnetic strip reader and wherein said clock pulses are produced by said magnetic strip reader in response to the movement of document cards in said reader.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
81 words
The combination according to claim 7 wherein documents for use with the document reading system have the data thereon encoded with parity check information; said identifying means coupled with the output of said reading means further includes means for identifying a parity check error and producing a signal corresponding to such parity check error; and said transaction terminating means coupled with said identifying means also is responsive to such parity check error signal for terminating the transaction in said utilization means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
43 words
The combination according to claim 8 wherein said transaction terminating means further is coupled with said reading means for terminating the reading of a document therein in response to the identification of an end character before a start character by said identifying means.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
55 words
The combination according to claim 6 further including timing means coupled with the output of said reading means and coupled with at least said utilization means for terminating a previously initiated transaction in said utilization means when no end character has been identified on the output of said reading means for a predetermined time interval.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
98 words
The combination according to claim 2 wherein said means for reading documents comprises a magnetic card reader and said documents comprise magnetically-encoded cards inserted therein, and wherein the data on said cards comprises a strip of binary magnetic coded characters in which the data characters are separated by a start character and an end character and in which the start character normally is read by said reading means at the beginning of a transaction and the end character is read by said reading means after the reading of data characters on the document by said magnetic card reader.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
51 words
The combination according to claim 11 further including timing means coupled with the output of said reading means and coupled with at least said utilization means for terminating a transaction in said utilization means in the absence of signals on the output of said reading means for a predetermined time interval.
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