Service control and management system
AssigneeGemplus
InventorsGuy Dartigues, Claude Ferraris, Guy Guistini
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Abstract
A service control and management systems, and more specifically a system to manage hourly working services, that has service beneficiaries' and/or service providers' smart cards, smart card readers at service sites, and a central server capable of communicating with the readers. In the system each reader has means for initializing a service time count after initialization of the transaction until a service ending time. Also, there are means for recording, periodically on a non-volatile memory, information relating to the performance of the services, and means for transmitting the information from the reader to the central server.
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A control and management system comprising
- service beneficiaries' and/or service providers' smart cards,
- smart card readers at service sites, and
- a central server capable of communicating with the readers,
- each reader comprises means for initializing a service transaction when the beneficiary's and/or provider's card is inserted therein, means for initializing a service time count after initialization of the transaction and until a service ending time, means for recording, periodically on a non-volatile memory, information relating to the performance of the services, and means for transmitting the information from the reader to the central server.
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