EP0210963A2 - Caisse pour l'émission et la confirmation de carte-clef optique et/ou magnétique - Google Patents

Caisse pour l'émission et la confirmation de carte-clef optique et/ou magnétique Download PDF

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EP0210963A2
EP0210963A2 EP86830223A EP86830223A EP0210963A2 EP 0210963 A2 EP0210963 A2 EP 0210963A2 EP 86830223 A EP86830223 A EP 86830223A EP 86830223 A EP86830223 A EP 86830223A EP 0210963 A2 EP0210963 A2 EP 0210963A2
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Gianfranco Polizzi
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
    • G07G1/00—Cash registers
    • G07G1/0036—Checkout procedures
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B15/00—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/20—Individual registration on entry or exit involving the use of a pass
    • G07C9/27—Individual registration on entry or exit involving the use of a pass with central registration

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  • the present invention relates to a cash desk for the emis­sion and the confirmation of key card. More particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus of the kind mention­ed above that allows the organizers of meetings or exhibitions or entertainments and the like to which a large concourse of people is expected to exert a filtering and checking action so as to prevent any possible accident and to reduce at the same time the cornering phenomenon drastically without giving the spectator or the audience the unpleasant physical feeling to be under special watching.
  • the moments at which a check can be carried out on the public are in particular the concourse phase, to which the distribution and sale of tickets is a phase tightly bound, the permanence phase and the phase in which the public leave the structure.
  • the apparatus according to the present invention aims at emitting and/or confirming key cards which replace the ticket or the membership card or pass for a series of said meetings or assemblies or the like, which key cards are also the only means suitable to enable the owner to be admitted to the specific assembly in question.
  • the spec­tator or the attending people must pay the authorized ticket sellers the sum corresponding to the ticket price, next they will take care the key card is enabled for that specific people assembly by means of the apparatus according to the present invention, which apparatus will store the key card code into its own files, or the buyer's data if the oper­ation corresponds to the emission of a new key card, the people assembly code and the area for which the key card is valid.
  • the key cards emitt­ed can be enabled by the apparatus according to the present invention also for a number of people assemblies (3, 5, 10 and so on) so as to allow the buyer to take advantage of discounts made to those having membership cards or permanent passes.
  • an off-line apparatus is proposed by the Applicant for the emission and the confir­mation of key cards relating to public assemblies to which a large concourse of people is expected, said apparatus being substantially made up of a microprocessor central unit for carrying into effect the program stored in the permanent sto­rage, to which apparatus data are supplied relating to the maximum number of tickets available from a given single dis­tributor by means of a magnetic floppy disk, such data being then carried into the working storage that records also data introduced during the selling phase and relating to the tick­ets sold, to the buyers of the same, and so on.
  • the realization is proposed of an apparatus of the type mentioned above that can be operatively connected to the cash-registers of the auth­orized box-offices or the like so that some units, as for in­stance the outer printer and the display can be common, and in addition, by simply inserting a different magnetic support, the processor of the emitting-confirming apparatus can be em­ployed to carry out any book-keeping operation as regards the sales activities of the office (stock, warehouse, etc.) or to run any other similar programs that can be useful to the man­ager.
  • a cash desk for the emission-confirmation of magnetic and/or optical key card
  • said cash desk comprising a micro­processor central unit connected to a permanent storage; a reader of a magnetic floppy disk which transfers data to said microprocessor central unit; a working storage connected to said central unit; and an input/output (I/O) unit that hand­les a reader of optical and/or magnetic key card, an alpha­numeric keyboard and an alphanumeric display.
  • I/O input/output
  • said I/O unit is also connected to an external printer.
  • said apparatus can be operatively linked to a cash-register which in such way employs the microprocessor central unit and the permanent storage, through the interposition of a buffer storage, for the execution through the insertion of different magnetic sup­ports of programs relating to management problems of the of­fice or the firm.
  • said apparatus can be as­sembled direct with a cash-register provided with a buffer sto­rage, which storage is connected to the microprocessor central unit, the alphanumeric display and the external printer being in such case in common.
  • A points out the microprocessor central unit that executes the programs stored in the permanent storage B.
  • the working storage E also stores data relating to the tickets sold and to the buyers, such data being stored into the floppy at the end of the working day or when the validity of the maximum number of available tickets assigned expires.
  • an input/output unit F is also connected to said central unit A, said unit F handling a full series of serial and parallel interfaces.
  • the reader G of the key cards communicates with said unit A just through said unit F.
  • the alphanumeric display H is also connected to that unit.
  • the external printer I allows a receipt to be emitted, which receipt is not valid for enabling to admittance, but it is valid as a receipt of payment, and in addition said printer allows a facsimile of a paying-in slip to be given to the operator who will make the payment of the sum into the bank.
  • a floppy containing the maximum number available of tick­ets is given to the operator of said apparatus.
  • the operator of the appara­tus takes a new key card from his own assigned amount, in­serts the same into the reader G which checks the validity and the integrity of the optical band and displays "VALID" on the display H.
  • the apparatus performs the check by the data stored in the floppy and it accepts or refuses booking according to the areas or seats available.
  • the apparatus dis­plays the sum to be paid, and the operator, after receiving the sum, confirms the booking which is then recorded in the floppy together with the code of the key card read at the be­ginning of the operation by the reader G.
  • the floppies bearing the enabling data are collected or delivered the night before the meeting or entertainment or any other people assembly and they are transferred into a periph­eral processor for the insertion into a system which will be illustrated in the following with reference to Figure 4.
  • Figure 2 illustrates the interconnection between the ap­paratus according to the present invention and the cash-regis­ter L. All data relating to the operations carried out by said cash-register L during its normal working are stored into a buffer storage M and afterwards they can be read by the unit A by suitably programming the storage B, so that a reduced management check of the business can be performed.
  • the printer I and the display H will be the same for the two coexisting apparatuses.
  • the cash-register L will be provided with an internal printer N for fiscal purposes.
  • Figure 3 shows for exemplification purposes a kind of embodiment of an emitting-confirming/cash desk apparatus.
  • Number 1 points out the reader of the magnetic support, while number 2 shows the alphanumeric keyboard and number 3 shows the optical display reading the magnetic cards, and number 4 points out the alphanumeric display.
  • number 5 shows the keyboard for the oper­ation functions while the money cash is pointed out by num­ber 6 and the printer by the reference number 7.
  • Figure 4 shows a block diagram of a system wherein the apparatus according to the present invention can be employ­ed off-line by itself or otherwise in combination with the cash-register.
  • Said system consists substantially of:

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EP86830223A 1985-08-02 1986-07-28 Caisse pour l'émission et la confirmation de carte-clef optique et/ou magnétique Withdrawn EP0210963A3 (fr)

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WO1991007732A1 (fr) * 1989-11-13 1991-05-30 Santino Marchetti Systeme permettant l'acces aux representations publiques, aux manifestations sportives, ou analogue
US5113183A (en) * 1987-06-16 1992-05-12 Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Remote code transmission system between a nameplate apparatus and a data processing apparatus
US5249103A (en) * 1992-07-02 1993-09-28 Ncr Corporation Modular transaction terminal having a docking surface with a plurality of parallel grooves
EP0485996A3 (en) * 1990-11-13 1993-10-06 Symbol Technologies, Inc. Flexible merchandise checkout and inventory management system
FR2691270A1 (fr) * 1992-05-15 1993-11-19 Guguen Patrick Procédé et dispositif de billetterie.
WO1999026203A1 (fr) * 1997-11-18 1999-05-27 Paolo Moro Systeme d'enregistrement et de controle d'acces d'abonne et techniques afferentes
NL1012914C2 (nl) * 1999-08-26 2001-02-27 Ticket Direct B V Uitgiftecomputer, toegangscontrolesysteem en werkwijze voor het verschaffen van toegang tot een evenement.
WO2001073691A1 (fr) * 2000-03-29 2001-10-04 Skidata Ag Procede d'enregistrement d'une autorisation d'acces

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US5113183A (en) * 1987-06-16 1992-05-12 Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Remote code transmission system between a nameplate apparatus and a data processing apparatus
WO1991007732A1 (fr) * 1989-11-13 1991-05-30 Santino Marchetti Systeme permettant l'acces aux representations publiques, aux manifestations sportives, ou analogue
EP0428233A1 (fr) * 1989-11-15 1991-05-22 N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek NEDAP Procédé et dispositif de fabrication de tickets d'accès
US5181786A (en) * 1989-11-15 1993-01-26 N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek Nedap Method and apparatus for producing admission tickets
EP0485996A3 (en) * 1990-11-13 1993-10-06 Symbol Technologies, Inc. Flexible merchandise checkout and inventory management system
FR2691270A1 (fr) * 1992-05-15 1993-11-19 Guguen Patrick Procédé et dispositif de billetterie.
US5249103A (en) * 1992-07-02 1993-09-28 Ncr Corporation Modular transaction terminal having a docking surface with a plurality of parallel grooves
WO1999026203A1 (fr) * 1997-11-18 1999-05-27 Paolo Moro Systeme d'enregistrement et de controle d'acces d'abonne et techniques afferentes
US6363351B1 (en) 1997-11-18 2002-03-26 Paolo Moro Subscriber registration and access control system and related methods
NL1012914C2 (nl) * 1999-08-26 2001-02-27 Ticket Direct B V Uitgiftecomputer, toegangscontrolesysteem en werkwijze voor het verschaffen van toegang tot een evenement.
WO2001015089A1 (fr) * 1999-08-26 2001-03-01 Beerens & Van Dijk Ordinateur d'emission, systeme de controle d'admission et procede permettant l'admission a un evenement
WO2001073691A1 (fr) * 2000-03-29 2001-10-04 Skidata Ag Procede d'enregistrement d'une autorisation d'acces

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