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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5023782 | Travelers cheque transaction terminal An electronic travelers cheque transaction terminal for use in a financial institution such as a bank for purposes of assisting in the sale, refund or encashment of travelers cheques, and used in combination with a host computer with which the terminal is... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5021952 | Electronic account recording device An electronic account recording device according to the present invention has number keys for effecting the input of a number, a switch key for selecting an item from a plurality of items, an amount key for recording an expense amount as inputted by the n... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5016171 | Copy cartridge warranty and billing system Customer billing system for electrostatographic reproducing machines in which a replaceable copy cartridge provides a guaranteed number of copies or prints, each cartridge having an integral copy counter which, on reaching a predetermined copy count, is d... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4994964 | Transaction tracking data processing system A data processing system is disclosed which monitors client's business orders over time and based upon predetermined criteria determines the client's vested interest in funds deposited into special client accounts. The business order data is stored in uni... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4989141 | Computer system for financial analyses and reporting An advanced financial reporting and analysis software package is described. The package collects, organizes, manages and consolidates financial data and provides user defined capabilities for creating financial and corporate reports. Financial data is org... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4962459 | System for accounting for postage expended by a postage meter having data security during printing A system for accounting for postage expended by a postage meter. The system includes a keyboard and display for entry of commands and postal information, a printer, a memory for storing account records and program data, the memory further including a non-... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4941091 | Mail management system transaction data customizing and screening A mail management system (MMS) is comprised of a host system communicatively coupled to one or more operator workstations. Each workstation may be further coupled to a postage dispensing device, such as a postage meter. A transaction record for each posta... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4933842 | Automated investment fund accounting system A computerized investment plan accounting system manages data for investment plans with multiple participants and multiple investment funds. When a transaction is entered, one side of the transaction (either units or dollars) may be flagged as pended. Whe... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4891755 | System for detecting removal of items from a hotel minibar and for the automatic charging of the bill of the gas for item removed from the minibar The invention relates to minibars located in hotel rooms, and more specifically to such minibars provided with means for ascertaining whether any item has been removed, its nature and its price, thus facilitating the recharging of the minibar and the char... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4882475 | Synthesized speech-facilitated product preparation and/or delivery system and method In the case of a pizza home delivery system, customer addresses and mapping information may be auomatically retrieved and displayed based on customer telephone number, and order data including an assigned order number may be imprinted on a label to be att... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4855920 | Postage accounting device A device applicable for processing batch mail which eliminates the need for on-site inspection. A mail sender purchases postage value and stores the amount purchased in the memory of the accounting device. The mail sender processes batches of mail and red... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4853882 | System and method for protecting against redundant mailings A system and method for protecting against redundant mailings compile mail listings associated with, for example, refund promotion requests received during a given period of time for a number of different refund promotions. Each listing in the compilation... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4851999 | General-purpose management system A general-purpose management system displays a single general format on a display unit so that items redundant in plural types of management to be performed independently, as well as items peculiar to each type of management, can be inputted successively,... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4852000 | Method for expense report storage and calculation A system for maintaining a business record includes a main menu having a plurality of modular expense routines and a plurality of modular operational assistance routines. All the modular routines are individually identified and selectively callable by ent... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4849884 | Mailing and accounting system A system for mailing bulk mail pieces in which credit rating is relied upon instead of security to assure payment of the mail. A mailer user sends a batch of mail to the post office which is accompanied by a statement sheet indicating the number of mail p... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4843548 | System for integrating related numerical functions The present invention relates to a system for integrating related numerical functions in an improved manner which operates from a common data base. Specifically, this system utilizes a common data base configuration for a variety of separate satellite fun... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4839813 | Computerized parcel shipping system A computerized partial shipping system wherein transactions related to a plurality of carriers are recorded in a single file. The file has a pair of counters for each carrier, with the first counter storing the total number of transactions recorded for th... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4831242 | Control system for health club facilities and equipment A control system for a health club which stores user records including user activity data in order to monitor and control use of the club's facilities. A central controller includes a memory for storing the user records including attendance data and accou... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4829428 | Beverage container sorting, accounting, and disposal method with compartmentalized hamper and can crusher Returnable beverage containers, on which a deposit has been paid at purchase, are returned to a return center for the containers, for example, in a retail outlet. At the return center, the returned containers are sorted and counted, and data about them ar... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4812985 | Article storage and retrieval system A system for the storage and retrieval of motor vehicle keys wherein the keys are mounted in a container to which is affixed a printed bar code label identifying the vehicle stock number, its color and model. The system includes a bar code reader and a pl... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4713761 | System for centralized processing of accounting and payment functions A system for determining and accounting for the costs of transactions. The system is particularly suited for determining and accounting the costs of shipping goods. The system includes an input device which is located at the shipper's (or other buyer's) p... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4711994 | Security system for correlating passengers and their baggage A method, and its associated system, for maintaining a close and accurate security surveillance of both the passengers and their baggage on a public conveyance, to insure that, before departure, baggage is not loaded aboard the conveyance without a prior,... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4700297 | Relocation management and reporting system A relocation management and reporting data processing system processes reimbursement requests for employees who have been transferred. The system includes a data base for storing and retrieving information characterizing, inter alia, the transferred emplo... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4682288 | Electronic control for totaling denominations of several countries An electronic totalizer countrol for a coin sorter allows the user to assign and change fractional and whole-number coin values for denominations sorted at ten coin sorting stations in the sorter. The totalizer has a liquid crystal display (LCD) that inte... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4667291 | Container redemption method A method of redeeming returnable beverage containers that utilizes a return center for the containers located in the retail outlet. The return center includes an elongated counter for sorting and counting the returned containers and a computerized cash re... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4654793 | System and method for registering and keeping track of the activities of attendees at a trade show, convention or the like A system and method for registering and keeping track of the activities of attendees at a trade show, convention or the like. Each registrant is assigned a unique registration number, which is printed in bar-coded form on an identification badge, which al... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4652940 | Method of identifying magnetic tape as tape for journal In the on-line system, information called journal indicative of the hysteresis of process are written in turn in magnetic tape. At each process, journal information is added with information indicative of journal and the date on which the journal informat... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4642767 | Bookkeeping and accounting system Data processing for an improved bookkeeping and accounting system supervises, implements and coordinates a collection of coded data, the number of which is fixed and does not exceed several dozens; which represent totals of accounts describing financial c... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4633397 | Union member accounts management system A system for supervising one or more individual member accounts comprising a first data file for storing information characterizing each employer, a second data file for storing information characterizing each union member, and password protected provisio... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4621325 | Method for monitoring receipt and stocking of goods in a direct store delivery A method is provided for monitoring the receipt and stocking of batches of goods in a direct store delivery. A vendor enters a worksheet (22) via a wand scanner (12) where the vendor's information is stored in a computer (16). A store check-in sheet (32) ... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4611282 | Postage meter using a flag to indicate interuption of accounting register updating due to power failure or microprocessor failure In an electronic postage meter having a program for updating accounting memory in a printing cycle, flags are set in the accounting memory at each of a plurality of steps during the updating of the accounting registers, the flags providing an indication i... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4597457 | Electronic scale with CRT display An electronic scale with a CRT display has an input means composed of a manual data input device, weighing means for measuring the weight of an article, a CRT display unit, and a control unit for effecting an arithmetic operation based on signals from the... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4597045 | Tabulated data calculating apparatus In an apparatus which calculates tabulated data in at least one of lateral and vertical directions; a tabulated data totalizing and calculating apparatus comprising discriminating means to discriminate a sort of a ruled line which demarcates the tabulated... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4532641 | Cash accounting system A cash accounting system comprises a cash register for recording various transactions of money and having a central processing unit, a counting machine electrically connected with the cash register and operable to count money including bills used during e... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4513375 | Transaction numbering apparatus An apparatus, method and system for identifying, recording, and marking transactions such as, but not limited to, individual business agreements or specific events such as occurring in the commercialization of goods or services. An apparatus comprising a ... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4508962 | Read format preset in an electronic cash register An electronic cash register can operate in a read out mode wherein the transaction data stored in the electronic cash register is read out for administration checking purposes. A programming system is provided for programming printout format in the read o... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4486849 | Computer for calculating compound interest A computer capable of performing the compound interest operation of (1+i)n where i=interest rate and n=term.... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4458317 | Teller machine having an alterable secondary memory A teller machine is capable of modifying information stored within a secondary memory when the operator realizes a mistake even after he has completed transactions and placed information with respect to these transactions into the secondary memory. In the... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4455483 | System for recording data relating to specific lots of materials, particularly to milk lots A system is presented for recording data relating to specific lots of materials, particularly milk lots, wherein the data are collected at delivery locations by a collecting vehicle and are brought by the vehicle to a collecting station, the system compri... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4429385 | Method and apparatus for digital serial scanning with hierarchical and relational access Digitally encoded data such as classified advertising and other data bases of similarly related messages are broadcast on a serial-type digital data transmission system. Each message is preceded by a headnote, structured so that upon reception, the receiv... | 01/31/1984 |
