Central office powered credit only paystation
CA 1235512 A · Owner: Reliance Electric Company · Inventors: Gehalo, David J.; Fisher, Thomas M.
Overview
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A credit only paystation for allowing a user to place telephone calls therefrom without the necessity to use coins. The paystation includes means to read the users credit information which may be encoded on the magnetic stripe of a conventional credit card. The paystation uses a microcomputer to process the credit information and the dialing information entered by the user. The paystation also allows the user to dial a plurality of nonrestricted numbers without having to use a credit card. -45-
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- Granted April 19, 1988. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 19, 2005.
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