Distributed transaction system

US8250187B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ganart Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• ANTHONY M. CACHERIA, III · Coppell, US
• David Hooker · Forney, US
• Wayne Thomas McHugh · Little Elm, US
• Kristopher Glover · Dallas, US
• Webb Edwards · Lebanon, US
• Arthur Martin Holbrook · Carrollton, US
• Barrett Jenkins · Plano, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 9, 2010
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2012
• Expiry date: Jan 9, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/125
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for interfacing predetermined services to a user at a fixed location includes a processing platform running an operating system. Also included are a plurality of physical system resource interfaces for interfacing with available physical system resources. The physical system resources allow a user to gain access to the predetermined desired services. The system further includes a data store for storing configuration information for enabling the operating system to interface with the available physical system resources through the physical system resource interface associated therewith. A communication resource for interfacing with the operating system allows communication of the operating system with a central office for downloading configuration information to selectively enable ones of the available physical system resources to interface with the operating system through associated ones of the physical system resource interfaces in accordance with the configuration information and the predetermined service selected by a user. A plurality of configurations are stored in the data store, and each is associated with a predetermined service and one or more of the available ph…