摘要:
A record member feeding device is disclosed for feeding record members from a stack, located in a hopper having spaced-apart surfaces positioned at one end thereof defining an opening through which the record members may be fed. A vacuum-operated, solenoid-control picking member grasps one of the record members and shifts it through the opening to a position in which it is contacted by projections on a rotatable feeding element and is moved thereby into engagement with counter-rotating take away rollers which further transport it to its desired destination.
摘要:
A currency dispenser having a housing having a discharge opening therein; a flexible, transparent carrier having bills of currency detachably mounted on carrier; a drive unit for moving the carrier within the housing so as to position successive ones of the bills near the opening and pick-off structure to separate the bills from the carrier and move them out of the discharge opening. Embodiments of the carrier include the use of adhesive members, tongue-like structures and a fan-folded configuration for providing single, spaced bills of currency on the carrier.
摘要:
A security system and method are disclosed in a network comprised of a plurality of remote terminals in communication with a central processor wherein, before a user can access data from the central processor, that user's assigned terminal must first verify that the user is the proper user of that terminal and then the central processor must verify that the terminal requesting that data is authorized to access that data. In a preferred embodiment, a first memory in the terminal that is assigned to a particular user is initialized by storing therein a file number associated with the particular user, an assigned terminal number of the terminal, an assigned algorithm, and a first number derived from the use in the assigned algorithm of the assigned terminal number and a secret PIN number entered by the particular user into the terminal. The file number of the user and the terminal number and algorithm associated with that file number are also stored in a second memory in the central processor as another part of the initialization procedure. In a subsequent operation, a user enters his secret PIN number and a desired file number into the terminal. That current secret PIN number and the terminal number are used in the assigned algorithm to compute a second number. If the first and second numbers properly compare, the user is verified and the terminal transmits the desired file number to the central processor. In response to this desired file number, the central processor causes a random number to be generated. The terminal uses this random number and its assigned terminal number and algorithm to calculate a third number which is applied to the central processor. At the same time the central processor uses this random number and the terminal number and algorithm which are both associated with the desired file number to calculate a fourth number. If the third and fourth numbers properly compare in the central processor, the terminal is verified and access to the desired file number is allowed.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for issuing negotiable instruments such as checks from a terminal comprising: first means (identification card reader) for identifying an account number against which a monetary amount of a check to be issued by the terminal is to be charged; second means (handwriting transducer) for inputting into the terminal identification data which will be used in determining whether to accept or reject a user of the terminal as authorized to issue a check against the account number; third means (bank data system) for supplying authorized identification data to the terminal and also for supplying evaluation criteria, such as a current monetary balance, for the account number; entry means (keyboard) for entering check data including the monetary amount; means for comparing (processor) the identification data with the authorized identification data and for generating an accept signal or a reject signal as a result of the comparing; the comparing means also comparing the monetary amount with the evaluation criteria and for generating an issue signal when the associated comparison is favorable; means for transporting (paper strip drive) a record medium to a print station in the terminal; and a printer for printing the account number and the monetary amount on the record medium at the print station in response to the accept signal and the issue signal, whereby the record medium becomes the check which is issued from the terminal.
摘要:
An optical identification system including a reader for reading superimposed optical gratings on a record medium in which the reader has a grating plane and a radiant energy source for directing energy therefrom along an optical axis to the grating plane. Detectors are positioned in the reader to receive diffracted beams from the optical gratings on a record medium positioned at the grating plane. The reader also includes an optical imaging system having a concave lens for directing a zero order reflected beam which is displaced from the optical axis back to the grating plane to enable the resulting beams diffracted from the optical gratings to be received at the detectors whenever a record medium is displaced slightly from the grating plane.
摘要:
A system including a portable personal terminal which may be used for handling a wide variety of financial, shopping, and other transactions. The personal terminal is credit-card sized, is intelligent, includes a plurality of transaction totals and is constructed to be user-friendly. An interface module is used to couple the terminal to other systems for on-line uses.
摘要:
A system including a portable personal terminal which may be used for handling a wide variety of financial, shopping, and other transactions. The personal terminal is credit-card sized, is intelligent, includes a plurality of transaction totals and is constructed to be user friendly. An interface module is used to couple the terminal to other systems for on line uses.
摘要:
A system and method for providing a security check on a credit card. The credit card has first data recorded thereon in the form of optical gratings to provide for card uniqueness and second data recorded thereon in a magnetic track also located on the card. The optical gratings on the card cannot be reproduced by "skimming" or without destroying the card itself. When the magnetic track is recorded by a bank issuing the card, some reference to the first data on the card is included and encrypted on the magnetic track by the bank's encrypting hardware so as to eliminate fraudulent duplication or use of the card. The first data, which is unique to the card, is compared with selected portions of the encrypted second data to provide a security check to determine the validity of the card being used. The optical gratings are embossed on an aluminized plastic strip which is sandwiched between plastic sheets in the credit card to form a non-separable and tamperproof card structure.
摘要:
A system and method are disclosed for optically communicating data between two data handling units where one of the data units supplies all of the optical power needed for the optical communications between the two data units. In a preferred embodiment a first data unit comprises a first data source, first and second optical sources of optical energy, and a first optical detector, while a second data unit comprises a second data source, a second optical detector and an optical modulator. In a first mode of operation, a first stream of digital data from the first data source pulse modulates the first optical source on and off causing the first optical source to transmit optical pulses to the second optical detector. These optical pulses are converted by the second optical detector back into a representation of the first stream of digital data for use by the second data unit. In a second mode of operation unmodulated optical energy is transmitted from the second optical source in the first data unit to the optical modulator in the second data unit. A second stream of digital data from the second data source is applied to the optical modulator to accordingly modulate the received unmodulated optical energy. Modulated optical pulses from the optical modulator are therefore reflected to the first optical detector. These reflected modulated optical pulses are converted by the first optical detector back into a representation of the second stream of digital data for use by the first data unit.
摘要:
A multi-track magnetic recording head is used to record data in human readable form on a magnetic track on a record medium. A viewer, having a viewing window containing microencapsulated ferromagnetic particles, is used to read the data. When the viewing window is placed in operative proximity with the magnetic track, an image corresponding to the data on the track is formed on the viewing window to enable a user of the record medium to read the data thereon. The image on the viewing window is erased after reading by providing relative movement between the viewing window and a magnetic field.