| 4893248 |
Monitoring and reporting system for remote terminals |
| Jan-9-1990 |
A system is disclosed for monitoring and accumulating data indicative of viewer authorized pay per view TV programs at each of a plurality of remote terminals, wherein each remote terminal is coupled illustratively... |
| 4887206 |
Automated system for estimating impact on inventory cost due to an engineering change to a component |
| Dec-12-1989 |
A conceptual tool for inventory cost analysis based on an engineering change request for an item. The invention is a conceptual tool that uses both existing and new product structure in which an engineering... |
| 4885694 |
Automated building control design system |
| Dec-5-1989 |
Disclosed is a computer system for substantially automating the design of a building control system. The system comprises a processor for processing data stored in a data base, the data being related to... |
| 4870589 |
Management apparatus for equipment |
| Sep-26-1989 |
A management apparatus for equipment such as a copying machine has cards recording section data or the like, a card controller for reading the data from a card when the card is inserted and used when the... |
| 4868758 |
Data communication system |
| Sep-19-1989 |
A data communication system comprises calculation means for calculating a communication charge to be charged when a given amount of data is to be transmitted, and display means for displaying the calculated... |
| 4782448 |
Contract estimating system utilizing a digitizing ruler |
| Nov-1-1988 |
A contract estimating system includes a digitizer ruler divided into a plurality of equally spaced increments. The ruler generates an output signal representing the distance along the ruler at a point... |
| 4766295 |
Electronic pricing display system |
| Aug-23-1988 |
An electronic pricing display system for displaying pricing and other specialized information in real time on shelf display tags (18). Display tags (18) are battery operated and receive remotely transmitted... |
| 4751669 |
Videotex frame processing |
| Jun-14-1988 |
A videotex decoder apparatus which, in various aspects, displays a status line to indicate when connect charges are occurring; overlays menus over displayed videotex frames with portions of the displayed... |
| 4679150 |
Automatic vending machine with discount function |
| Jul-7-1987 |
An automatic vending machine is provided which has a continuous sale controller for continuously selling a plurality of products within a total amount of coins inserted therein for a single purchase. Until... |
| 4675824 |
Method of replacing a tolling system for toll roads |
| Jun-23-1987 |
A method of replacing a punched-card tolling system with a magnetic-card tolling system gradually by installing controllers sequentially at entrance and exit gates, each of which controllers is capable... |
| 4593361 |
Vending machine control circuit |
| Jun-3-1986 |
A vending machine control circuit having a plurality of capacitively coupled switches for enabling a customer to indicate his choice of a product to be vended. A logic circuit is responsive thereto for... |
| 4528638 |
Shopping calculator with comparison feature |
| Jul-9-1985 |
The present invention discloses a shopping calculator into the budget memory of which, when shopping, a previously decided budget value is entered for storage by means of a budget key, and each time a... |
| 4503503 |
Transaction processing apparatus for storing and/or calculating costs, sales, deductions, number of sales, cost multiplier, and profit, in a departmentalized format |
| Mar-5-1985 |
A transaction processing apparatus comprises a memory having a sales information storing region defined for each of a plurality of commodity departments, a cost multiplier rate information storing region... |
| 4500880 |
Real time, computer-driven retail pricing display system |
| Feb-19-1985 |
A computer driven, informational display system is disclosed which visually displays selected information in real time. The arrangement is particularly adapted for displaying pricing and other associated... |
| 4458320 |
Electronic calculating device |
| Jul-3-1984 |
An electronic calculating device having a keyboard with input keys for the digits 0-9, an item register and display for storing and displaying, in a fixed-point format of dollars and cents, an item-price... |
| 4435769 |
Portable type automobile repair estimate issuing device |
| Mar-6-1984 |
An automobile repair estimate issuing device having a part data file made up of a first file for storing part data other than name data and a second file for storing the name data. The data file is stored... |
| 4408296 |
Digital timing system for spark advance |
| Oct-4-1983 |
A means to set spark timing in accordance with engine speed includes a counter to count clock pulses between engine speed reference pulses. A read-only memory has successive memory locations storing an... |
| 4280181 |
Cash accountability control circuit for vending and like machines |
| Jul-21-1981 |
A control circuit for vending and other coin controlled devices including a first accumulator for accumulating the price of each vend, said accumulator having a first input where signals that represent... |
| 4128758 |
Electronic order pricing system |
| Dec-5-1978 |
An electronic order pricing system including a data card having a plurality of item lines, each representing an orderable item with certain of the lines bearing indicia representing a quantity of items... |
| 4065661 |
Photofinishing apparatus |
| Dec-27-1977 |
Photofinishing apparatus for producing photographic prints from originals such as positive transparencies, negative transparencies or positive reflection prints and for printing a customer bill is controlled... |