Card-operated telephone
AssigneeOmron Tateisi Electronics Co.
InventorsHisashi Tasaki, Kimikazu Endo
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Abstract
A telephone of the type that employs a magnetic card having a certain value or worth recorded thereon, and which permits a user to cummunicate by the telephone within the limits of the remaining value of the card, records a dialed number on the card when the card is used a first time, and automatically dials the recorded number when the card is subsequently used.
Claims7
A card-operated telephone having a card reader for reading card data, which is inclusive of value, stored in a telephone card, which telephone permits a user to communicate within the limits of the value included in the card data and comprises:
- means for determining whether the telephone card is being used a first time;
- means for reading and storing dialing data in a case where the telephone card is being used a first time;
- writing means for writing the stored dialing data into the telephone card at the end of communication in the case where the telephone card is being used a first time;
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- automatic dialing means, operative when the telephone card is used other than a first time, for transmitting a dialing signal based on the dialing data read from the telephone card.
A card-operated telephone having a card reader for reading card data, which is inclusive of value, stored in a telephone card, which telephone permits a user to communicate within the limits of the value included in the card data and comprises:
- first means associated with said card reader for reading dialing data from a telephone card and storing the read dialing data,
- second means for detecting and storing dialing data representing dialing signals transmitted from the telephone,
- writing means for writing the dialing data stored in the second means into the telephone card at the end of a telephone communication and in response to the existence of a predetermined condition,
- means for setting an automatic dialing mode, and
- automatic dialing means, operative when an automatic dialing mode is set, for transmitting a dialing signal based on the dialing data stored in the first means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.