Remotely configurable user device for accessing a distributed transaction system

US8255499B2 · 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 28, 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 external services provided by service providers to a user at a fixed location includes a processing platform running an operating system and a plurality of physical system resource interfaces for interfacing with available physical system resources allowing a user to gain access to the predetermined external services, a data store associated with the processing platform stores configuration information defining ones of a plurality of external services, a communication interface enables the operating system to communicate with a central office to download of configuration information for one or more of the external services and to facilitate access to a selected one of the external services.