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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2000
Lennart Svensson-Hilford, Berlin, DE;
René Matthe, Berlin, DE;
Inventio AG, Hergiswil, DE;
Abstract
An elevator installation having a system of making payments so that the installation can be operated as a means of transport for providing chargeable transportation services for persons and/or goods. Also provided is an identification device for recognition of types of cashless payment, a calculation device for cashless calculation of transportation services to, for example, trip destinations input within a time window, and a charging device for cashless debiting of the costs of transportation services. The identification device can recognize different types of cashless payment such as tokens, tokens with electronic chips, prepayment cards, cards or keys with data carriers, or transmitter/receiver systems or biometric systems with individual data of the user. The charging for transportation services can, for example, take place in relation to operations-specific and/or user-specific criteria.