摘要 |
<p>An automatic account controller (110) for remotely arranging for payment of debt to a vendor. The controller includes a detector for activating the portable account controller upon detection of indicia of identity of an authorized user and an interactive display (102) for selecting a mode of payment to the vendor. The controller further includes a keyboard (104) for entering a payment amount, a transceiver (112), transcoder (114), and modem (116) for communicating with the vendor, and for executing the selected mode of payment to the vendor through the transceiver (112), transcoder (114), and modem (116) for communicating.</p> |