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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1997
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A card transaction system and method which includes the card medium, an accepting apparatus for the card medium, and a host computer of a card medium issuer connected to the accepting apparatus via a communication line, comprises, an approving function for causing the host computer to answer one credit inquiry from the issuer so that the host computer approves right of use for the card medium within a predetermined amount of money without a necessity of performing a credit inquiry, a supply function for causing the accepting apparatus to supply information of the right of use to the card medium when the approving function approves the right of use, and a function for causing information of the right of use to be stored in a storage region of the card medium so as to realize a plurality of transactions with the card medium within the predetermined range of the amount of money without the necessity of performing the credit inquiry.
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