Title:
DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE FOR MAGNETIC FARE CARD PROCESSING
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003019460
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A process for encoding and decoding data on the magnetic stripe of a card at any bit density is provided. Data is read from the magnetic stripe of a card and transmitted to a single board computer (110). The single board computer (110) receives the data and determines if the bit density of the card is supported by the computer. If the bit density is supported, the data is sent to a demodulator object (204, 206) to be demodulated and converted to a data stream of ASCII characters. The data stream is then decoded, unpacked and sent to a ticket validator (218) to check the validity of the data. If the bit density is not supported by the computer (110), a demodulator object supporting the bit density can be instantiated.
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Inventors:
PROW ROBERT
DECARLI JOHN
DECARLI JOHN
Application Number:
PCT/US2002/026793
Publication Date:
September 25, 2003
Filing Date:
August 22, 2002
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Assignee:
CUBIC CORP (US)
International Classes:
G06K7/016; G06K7/08; G11B20/10; G11B20/14; G11B20/16; (IPC1-7): G06K7/08
Foreign References:
| EP0565759A1 | 1993-10-20 | |||
| US4141044A | 1979-02-20 | |||
| US5455408A | 1995-10-03 | |||
| EP0441280A1 | 1991-08-14 | |||
| US6049478A | 2000-04-11 |
Other References:
PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 012, no. 380 (P - 769) 12 October 1988 (1988-10-12)
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