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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bernard Vermesse, L'Hay les Roses, FR;
Assignee:
SMH Alcatel, Paris Cedex, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235375 ;
Abstract
A control system for a set of franking machines (1) under the surveillance of a control center (2) for managing them and containing, to this end, as does each of the machines, a logic circuit organized about a processor (24) and memories (26). The data to be transmitted from the control center to the machines and vice-versa are interchanged by means of 'smart' cards (3) having incorporated memory (7) and microprocessors (6) which are placed alternately in read/write terminals (5 or 4) of the control center or of the machines.