# US 2019/0246003 A1 · Multifunctional paper-interacting device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0246003 A1 - Document ID: US20190246003A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/341,926 - Filed: 2017-03-14 - Published: 2019-08-08 - Earliest claimed: 2016-10-16 - Assignees: G.P.P.S. Ltd. - Applicants: G.P.P.S. Ltd. - Inventors: Belal LEHAWANY - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190246003A1 ## CPC - H04N 1/344: {Accounting or charging based on type of function or service used, e.g. copying, faxing} - G06Q 20/145: {Payments according to the detected use or quantity} - G06Q 20/18: involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals - G06Q 30/0241: Advertisements - G07F 17/266: {for the use of a photocopier or printing device (photocopiers H04N1/00)} - H04N 1/00204: {with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server (programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561)} - H04N 1/00307: {with a mobile telephone apparatus (constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00)} - H04N 1/00384: {Key input means, e.g. buttons or keypads (electromechanical details of key input means in general H01H13/00)} - H04N 1/34: for coin-freed systems {; Pay systems} - H04N 2201/0094: Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00}) ## Abstract A paper-interacting device, connected to a computerized network via a network connection, the paper-interacting device comprising an input means and a processor, the processor configured to: obtain payment-related information from a user operating the input means; send an authentication request, comprising the payment-related information, to a remote payment authentication server, wherein the authentication request is sent via the network connection; receive, via the network connection, an authentication response originating from the remote payment authentication server; and enable the paper-interactive device to perform a paper-interactive operation upon the authentication response being indicative of a successful authentication of the authentication request. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A paper-interacting device, connected to a computerized network via a network connection, the paper-interacting device comprising an input means and a processor, the processor configured to: obtain payment-related information originating from a user operating the input means; send an authentication request, comprising the payment-related information, to a remote payment authentication server, wherein the authentication request is sent via the network connection; receive, via the network connection, an authentication response originating from the remote payment authentication server; and enable the paper-interactive device to perform a paper-interactive operation upon the authentication response being indicative of a successful authentication of the authentication request. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The paper-interacting device of claim 1, wherein the paper-interactive device is capable of performing one or more of the following operations: printing, scanning, faxing, photocopying. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The paper-interacting device of claim 1, wherein the paper-interactive operation is one or more of the following operations: printing, scanning, faxing, photocopying. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The paper-interacting device of claim 1, wherein the input means includes one or more of the following: a touch screen, a keypad, a keyboard, a card reader. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The paper-interacting device of claim 1, wherein the payment-related information includes at least an identification number identifying a payment means of the user. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The paper-interacting device of claim 5 wherein the payment means is a credit or debit card. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The paper-interacting device of claim 1, wherein the authentication response includes an indication of a balance in the user's account, and wherein the paper-interactive device is enabled to perform the paper-interactive operation if the balance is sufficient in accordance with a cost of the paper-interactive operation. ### Claim 8 A method of operating a paper-interacting device connected to a computerized network via a network connection, the paper-interacting device comprising an input means, the method comprising: obtaining, by a processor, payment-related information originating from a user operating the input means; sending, by the processor, an authentication request, comprising the payment-related information, to a remote payment authentication server, wherein the authentication request is sent via the network connection; receiving, by the processor, via the network connection, an authentication response originating from the remote payment authentication server; and enabling, by the processor, the paper-interactive device to perform a paper-interactive operation upon the authentication response being indicative of a successful authentication of the authentication request. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the paper-interactive device is capable of performing one or more of the following operations: printing, scanning, faxing, photocopying. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the paper-interactive operation is one or more of the following operations: printing, scanning, faxing, photocopying. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the input means includes one or more of the following: a touch screen, a keypad, a keyboard, a magnetic stripe card reader. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the payment-related information includes at least an identification number identifying a payment means of the user. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The method of claim 12 wherein the payment means is a credit or debit card. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the authentication response includes an indication of a balance in the user's account, and wherein the paper-interactive device is enabled to perform the paper-interactive operation if the balance is sufficient in accordance with a cost of the paper-interactive operation. ### Claim 15 A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code, executable by at least one processor of a paper-interacting device to perform a method, wherein the paper-interacting device is connected to a computerized network via a network connection, the paper-interacting device comprising an input means, and wherein the method comprising: obtaining, by the processor, payment-related information originating from a user operating the input means; sending, by the processor, an authentication request, comprising the payment-related information, to a remote payment authentication server, wherein the authentication request is sent via the network connection; receiving, by the processor, via the network connection, an authentication response originating from the remote payment authentication server; and enabling, by the processor, the paper-interactive device to perform a paper-interactive operation upon the authentication response being indicative of a successful authentication of the authentication request. ### Claim at position 16 16-40. (canceled)