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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1987
Filed:
May. 15, 1985
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A software vending system comprising a host system including a first memory for storing a plurality of first software programs and a plurality of peripheral vending instruments operatively connected to the host system for interactive data communication, each peripheral vending instrument including a secondary memory for storing the first software programs transferred from the first memory of the host system, and a recording device for duplicating in a recordinng medium a selected one of the first software programs stored in the secondary memory. The peripheral vending instrument further includes an input device for entering a second software program into the vending instrument, and a data transmitting device for transferring to the host system the second software program entered through the input device. The host system includes a data receiving device for receiving the second software program transferred from the data transmitting device of the peripheral vending instrument, and further includes a second memory for storing the second software program received by the data receiving device.