| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To obtain repidly the result of a decision on whether transaction with a customer is allowed or not by calling a center when correspondence between a card and the customer is recognized on the basis of a check on an identification number on it and then by making the decision on the basis of an answer from the center. CONSTITUTION:A customer's credit card is passed through a card matcher to read megnetic recoed as to an identification number, credit company number, membership number, etc. After the read, access to memory 20 is attained to make a decision on whether the company number agrees with that of a company in charge. When the decision result is ''OK'', the customer inputs his or her own identification number by operating ten-key pad 11. An operator, on the other hand, inputs the code and amount of a commodity that the customer wants through keyboards 6 and 7 in parallel to it. When the correspondence between the card and customer is recognized on the basis of a check on the identification number, the telephone number of the company is retrieved on the basis of the credit company number recorded on the card and a dial pulses are sent out to a telephone circuit to call center 16 where the credit company belongs. Center 16 retrieves its own file to read registered data and makes a decision on whether the transaction of it is allowed, thereby sending the result back to the terminal. |
