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US 2009/0039153 A1Published application
Deactivatable/reactivatable smart card recording apparatus
AssigneePharma-Smart, LLC
InventorsFrederick W. Sarkis, JR., Joseph O. Sarkis, Lisa Goodwin
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Abstract
An automated system with one or more memory-card interface devices, a custom-formatted end-user memory card keeps track of the user's results, and a reactivation memory card controls the provider's recharging of the end-user memory card after the end-user memory card expires. The contents of the reactivation memory card are updated in order to track its use by the provider of the readings.
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An apparatus for authorizing, recording or tracking usage comprising:
- a machine for automatically detecting parameters of usage of a service, resource or object;
- means for recording parameters of the detected usage on a first transportable device adapted to receive and hold usage data;
- means for limiting the duration, number of uses, or both on the first transportable device to a first period of time, wherein the first transportable device ceases to allow usage once a predetermined limit for the first period of time is exceeded;
- means for reactivating the first transportable device to extend the first period of time to a second period of time;
- means for limiting the duration, number of uses made on the first transportable device, or combination thereof to a second period of time;
- wherein reactivating the first transportable device to extend the first period of time to a second period of time permits continued usage until a predetermined limit for the second period of time is reached.
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An apparatus for authorizing usage comprising:
- a transportable device adapted to hold usage data, the usage data comprising a first expiration date and a number of uses available on the transportable device;
- a machine for detecting the usage data on the transportable device;
- means for recording usage data to the transportable device;
- means for deactivating the transportable device after either the first expiration date or the number of uses available has been exceeded;
- means for reactivating the transportable device to store a second expiration date or additional number of uses available on the transportable device;
- a software program for decrementing the number of uses available on the transportable device upon each authorized usage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.