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WO/2002/091103A2 |
An article dispensing system particularly useful for sale of cigarettes either in cashier-executed transactions or self-service transactions in unattended locations, includes a dispensing unit (10) having multiple inventory storage bins ...
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WO/2002/090193A2 |
A container positioner assembly (220) in the form of a slide-out support. The assembly includes a pair of handles (222), which can be grasped by a user to extract a container (178) attached to the assembly for removing it from a housing ...
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WO/2002/082237A2 |
An electronic lock and money control system is provided that is capable of single unit stand-alone operation, as well as expandability to a network of multiple units having one of the units operate as a centralized network controller (12...
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WO/2002/073547A1 |
A coin detector allowing to sell an article to a purchaser only when the specified number of appropriate coins are inputted therein while preventing the coins from being caught therein, wherein the coins (C) inputted therein by the purch...
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WO/2002/073548A1 |
A communication device (7) for interfacing cash handling apparatus (1-4) to a communications network (5). The device (7) comprises a processing system (11) for converting data received from either a communications network (5) or cash han...
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WO/2002/065412A2 |
The invention concerns a system for controlling machines (2) automatically preparing and dispensing several types of beverages, selected by keys (5). Means (7) detect the actuating of each key (5), and a management module (8) counts the ...
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WO/2002/063575A2 |
The invention relates to a method for transferring data to a pool of service terminals, said service terminals being accessible by numerous users via transactional means that communicate payment and/or identification information to the t...
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WO/2002/061534A2 |
A system and method for managing information from a point-of-sale/usage device includes a remote computer in communication with a computer network (3), the remote computer having a database for storing information obtained from a point-o...
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WO/2002/056211A2 |
The invention relates to a system for vending prepaid products, comprising a central data bank (2) and at least one vending device (4), provided with a data memory, that can be interlinked via a telecommunication link (3). The aim of the...
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WO/2002/043013A1 |
An acceptor-dispenser validator system for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip and/or currency into, and for distributing currency or a currency equivalent from, an electronic gaming machine or alternative type of customer service device is...
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WO/2002/038101A2 |
A medication dispensing system includes a medicine cabinet having a plurality of compartments for containing supplies of different kinds of medications to be accessed by a healthcare attendant for preparing individual medication dosages ...
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WO/2002/029752A2 |
A remote data acquisition, transmission and analysis system including handheld wireless equipment to obtain operational data and the status of remote machines is disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with the r...
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WO/2002/025552A2 |
A vending machine (1) is housed in a light, yet sturdy enclosure (2) made of an external sheet metal shell (18) and an internal seamless plastic liner (22) between which a volume of expanded synthetic foam material is injected. One or mo...
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WO/2002/025610A1 |
The MP 3 jukebox can be realised as an autonomous apparatus in the wall-mountable, desk or self-supportable version, but it can also be combined with a dart-apparatus, computer based cash register, video or computer games.Its operatin is...
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WO/2002/025602A1 |
A machine (1) suitable to sell, through a confirmation printed on a paper-voucher or recorded on a CD support, services in general and listed products as selected by users. It consists of an assembly of systems and multimedia apparatuses...
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WO/2002/019279A1 |
The present invention provides a vending system (1) for selling products or services to purchasers having mobile communicators (2) enabled to a wireless internet connection (7), and comprises: - means to permit a customer to communicate ...
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WO/2002/019285A2 |
The above objects are achieved in an illustrated embodiment of an article dispensing apparatus embodied, for example, as a vending machine, including a controllably positioned suction hose dispenser for retrieving articles from a storage...
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WO/2002/019281A2 |
Aspects of the invention are found in a method for collecting information associated with a vending machine. The method has the steps of detecting a vending event associated with the vending machine; storing a dataset stored in a standar...
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WO/2002/015038A1 |
An item dispensing system (144) having an item dispenser (149), a controller (145) and a fault store (154) for storing fault thresholds and faults. A true state of a fault is stored in the fault store in response to an operating state of...
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WO/2002/012112A2 |
A remote data acquisition and transmission system and method are dislosed. A plurality of application controllers are disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with remote beverage dispensing equipment from which o...
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WO/2002/008980A1 |
An electronic money transaction system in which electronic money data about the repayment amount is created in response to a demand for repayment sent from a user, and the data is sent directly to an IC card. Therefore the user can recei...
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WO/2002/001525A2 |
An article storage container, comprising a bin for storing in an a columnar manner, articles to be dispensed from a dispensing end of the bin. A plurality of article supporting intrusions positioned in a spaced manner along at least a po...
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WO/2002/001529A1 |
The invention concerns a procedure and an arrangement for attendance-free retail trade. The arrangement comprises a space (2) closed by a door (4) and provided for the exposure of goods (6). Within the space cameras (7) are present for r...
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WO/2001/099378A1 |
A method for real-time authentication or authorization of a user (1) of a secured system (3) is based on using two authentication channels and an authentication device (4) from which the secured system can request authentication or autho...
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WO/2001/096142A2 |
An article dispensing apparatus, as in a vending machine (10), including a controllably positioned suction hose dispenser (220) for retrieving articles (223) from a storage area (215). In one embodiment, a sensor (600) having an output (...
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WO/2001/095276A2 |
In an article vending machine, a hose (220) for extracting the articles whereby a positioning mechanism (233, 243) is used to move the end (221) of the house in a given plane. A drive mechanism (508) then moves the free end of the hose a...
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WO/2001/093211A1 |
The storage includes a set of discoidal elements or partitions (2) parallel to one another forming a cylindrical body (1) that is totally open and has a horizontal longitudinal axis. The partitions or elements (2) define slots (3) for th...
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WO/2001/091069A2 |
Methods of machine vending with a third party are disclosed. The third party issues an authorization code that prevents a computerized vending machine ('CVM') from being shut down automatically, or a de-authorization code that causes the...
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WO/2001/091071A2 |
An article handling apparatus embodied, for example, as a vending machine, includes a controllably positioned hose dispenser for retrieving articles from an article storage area. A hose is continuous from a first end located within a hos...
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WO/2001/091067A1 |
The invention relates to a device for detecting the presence of articles in a space, comprising: means for determining a location for each of the articles in the space; and a detector arranged at each location for detecting the presence ...
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WO/2001/088874A2 |
A method and system for communicating data between a network operations center and a remote device is described. Vending machine state information is communicated between a vending site and a network operations center using a delta schem...
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WO/2001/086602A2 |
A selection method and mechanism which causes multiple products from one or more vending machines to be dispensed through use of a single selection. The single selection mechanism can be the use of a single button either dedicated to thi...
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WO/2001/084510A2 |
A series of staggered, overlapping coin carousels with coin stalls that receive coins, drive motors that operate to rotate the carousels and position the coin stalls so that the coins can be transferred between the carousels, and coin tr...
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WO/2001/071680A2 |
Certain embodiments include a method and apparatus controlling a financial access vending machine. The financial access vending machine contains a user identifying interface subsystem and a local user access profile collection. Certain e...
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WO/2001/071682A2 |
Certain embodiments include a method and apparatus of directing profile presentations across a network of vending machines controlled by a vending system server comprised of vending system server process and a process on each of the vend...
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WO/2001/069552A1 |
An automatic vending apparatus having a product ordering window to input pruchaser's orders of various goods for automatic purchasing processes, a payment approving window to approve the payment for the ordered goods, a product dischargi...
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WO/2001/069554A1 |
The invention relates to an on-line e-commerce system using automatic vending apparatuses with a product supply unit to store, extract and discharge out a variety of goods and a control computer to control all the automatic operations of...
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WO/2001/069553A1 |
An automatic vending system having at least more than one product discharging unit to automatically sell a variety of goods, the system including: a card issuing unit for automatically issuing a personal ID card to distinguish one purcha...
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WO/2001/065495A2 |
A coin escrow apparatus for use with a pay telephone includes a frame defining accept and reject coin paths, and including a toggle mechanism for the temporary storage of coins independent of coin size and thickness, a coin accept gate m...
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WO/2001/063450A1 |
An item dispensing system (29) has a plurality of item dispensers (149) at different retail locations (147). The item dispensers (149) have processors for collecting data relating to the items dispensed. A host computer (161) in electric...
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WO/2001/051143A1 |
A gaming machine (10) includes a controller for controlling operation of the machine (10), a primary display (16) is provided on which a game to be played is displayed. A secondary display (18) is also provided on which a scorecard (22),...
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WO/2001/046016A1 |
A system and method for providing a sequence of individualized custom doses (32) according to a temporal dosing schedule. The individualized doses are delivered in a package (34) or packages, with each individualized custom dose comprisi...
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WO/2001/037227A1 |
A coin payout device has a slider (15) with a coin receiving hole (15b) for receiving a coin (23). The slider (15) is reciprocable between a first position whereat the hole (15b) is at a coin discharging station and a second position whe...
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WO/2001/031553A1 |
A system and method for collecting and aggregating data from a plurality of data generating vending machines (618, 618', 618'). Each vending machine transmits data to a central computer (612) via a different transmission path. Vending ma...
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WO/2001/031597A1 |
A vending machine (40) with a modified security arrangement is disclosed. The vending machine (40) has a mechanical lock operated by an attendant and an electronic lock that is unlocked in response to a signal received from a remote moni...
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WO/2001/029734A2 |
The computer system includes a central computer which communicates with a plurality of remote terminals via the internet or similar connection. The central computer receives data from the remote terminals regarding aspects of a future so...
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WO/2001/021131A2 |
The present invention relates to systems and methods for the remote dispensing of packaged and non-packaged medical products using networked communications systems. A preferred embodiment of the invention utilizes a network to provide fo...
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WO/2001/018759A1 |
A method enabling a customer to purchase a lottery ticket includes receiving a tender amount from a customer as part of a transaction in which the customer provides payment for goods or services having a computed price and determining an...
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WO/2001/011578A2 |
The present invention relates generally to improvements in article handling, such as in vending machines, and more particularly, to improvements in methods and apparatus for handling articles using a vacuum-type product lifting/dispensin...
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WO/2001/004845A1 |
A vending machine capable of effectively preventing fraudulent use of fake coins of a plurality of kinds. The number of slotted coins acceptable in one vending operation is preset in a setting unit (112). The coins slotted into a coin sl...
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