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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:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1998
Kit W Taylor, Stone Mountain, GA (US);
Walter Sacilowski, Tokyo, JP;
Noel Lanier, Loganville, GA (US);
The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A vending machine operating system architecture connects vending machine peripherals of different communication standards to a main vending machine controller. One way to connect the two disparate buses is to use a UART device for each. An even more cost effective approach is to use a communications coprocessor (which is at least equivalent to a UART device) to which each of the two disparate buses is selectively connected by a multiplexer under the control of the main vending machine controller.
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