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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Miller, Fayetteville, GA (US);
Kit Taylor, Stone Mountain, GA (US);
Ira Tolmich, Douglasville, GA (US);
Assignee:
The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36447901 ; 222-7 ; 221-9 ;
Abstract
A vending machine controller having a single serial port on the same chip as the programmable processor. The controller includes a port arbitrator that selectively connects one of several serially communicating devices to this single serial port. The vending machine controller also has multitasking capabilities so that remote price changing, and/or remote reprogramming can be conducted at the same time as a vend operation and/or a multimedia presentation.
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