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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5651116 | Method and apparatus for generating summaries of prepaid instrument transaction activity Method of communication between a processing unit associated with an applications program and portable information carriers of different types. It consists in adding a communications layer between the applications program and the carriers, so as to only o... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5635701 | Portable device for the functional linking of a chip card with a central processing unit Portable chip-card readers enabling a remote link to be set up with a central processing unit. It consists in providing, in a pack, for at least two different types, radiofrequency or infrared for example, of communication with the central processing unit... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5580310 | Games machine with mechanical counters as laid down by regulations, and with electronic payment mechanism Gaming machines provided with mechanical counters according to the regulations, to which there is grafted an electronic payment mechanism working on the basis of a chip card. It consists in diverting a certain number of links of the units of the machine b... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5552574 | Method for the marking of a connector of a chip card with a laser beam Disclosed is a method for the marking of particulars on a connector of a card called an electronic chip card, said connector having metal contacts with a given thickness. Said method comprises a step consisting of the etching, with a laser beam, of said p... | 09/03/1996 |
