Payment terminal, and associated method and program

US8074872B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Compagnie Industrielle et Financiere D'Ingenierie “Ingenico” · FR

Inventors

• David Naccache · Paris, FR
• Michael Troumelin · Courbevoie, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 18, 2008
• Grant date: Dec 13, 2011
• Expiry date: Apr 18, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F7/1008
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic payment terminal includes a data entry device, a processor and a memory. The memory contains a structure arranged to list at least one customer identifier, a personal identification number and an amount, all associated. The memory also contains a program having comprising instructions for storing, in an example of the structure after entry, the customer identifier and the personal identification number. The same example of the structure is then updated locally by payments out and in made on the terminal on behalf of the customer identified.