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Societe D'applications Generales D'electricite Et De Mecanique Sagem

Societe D'applications Generales D'eleciricite Et De Mecanique Sagem

Societe D'applications D'electricite Et De Mecanique Sagem

Jean-Louis Sarradin

Jean-Paul Brun

Christian Dol

A mobile telephone is equipped with a smart-card reader to aid in universal payment by smart card. A security checking circuit of the mobile telephone is provided with a complementary function by which the mobile telephone can behave like a secured smart-card reader with a view to payment. Smart-card payments are facilitated by disassociating an act of payment from an act of purchase which can be done by any means, in particular through the internet.

Method for making a payment secure

A chip-card payment terminal is capable of being connected both to a base station of a mobile telephony network and to a base station of a private telephony network. A transmission mode selection means provide for preference being given to transmission with the private telephony network because the price scale of these communications is lower.

Smart card payment terminal

An electronic terminal comprising a housing (1) having a receptacle (2) adapted to receive a memory card (21) having a connection region (22) and to permit the cooperation of connecting element (10) of the terminal with the connection region of the card (21), in which the receptacle (22) is defined by at least one wall (3-5) of the housing (1). Application to electronic payment terminals.

Electronic terminal with memory-card reader

A point-of-transaction system for processing electronic payments of transions includes portable payment terminals, each having a keyboard for entering transaction data and an interface for communicating without wires with a distant central station and, in turn, to a processing center in telephone communication with the central station.

Portable payment terminals and network for such terminals

Apparatus for reading the strip of identification characters of a check

A bill publishing apparatus is disclosed, for payment by use of a bank ca including an element for receiving a bank card, an element for receiving a bill, a printing drum with rotary wheels each carrying a series of characters and a mobile carriage carrying a printing roller. Each drum wheel is fast for rotation with a coding disk carrying a series of codes associated respectively with the characters of the wheel. An element for reading the codes and an element controlled by the reading element are provided for recording an angular positions of the wheels and so values of the characters.

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Fontenay en Parisis, France

Jean-Louis Sarradin