DE202005006187U1

DE202005006187U1 - Magnetic card system for recording, transmitting and evaluating data uses standard magnetic-strip cards, chip cards and/or barcodes

Info

Publication number: DE202005006187U1
Application number: DE200520006187
Authority: DE
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2005-04-18
Filing date: 2005-04-18
Publication date: 2005-09-22
Anticipated expiration: 2015-04-19

Abstract

Assigned to a payment company, a check-out system has a device to print out a bill with details about the company subject to sales tax law. A portable memory card is allocated to a receiver of the company's benefits so as to store data that reproduces details about the receiver of the benefits. The check-out system has an interface with the memory card to access data on it.

Description

1. The invention relates to the field of electronic Data acquisition, data transmission and data analysis using standardized magnetic stripe cards, Chip cards and / or barcodes.
2. Information on loyalty cards, access cards, bank and Credit cards etc. are currently predominantly on magnetic stripes or so-called micro-chips on plastic cards in the format of about 85 × 54 mm saved. The stored on the disk Information is read out by corresponding card readers, used and possibly further processed. Depending on the application, be on the disks also changes and updates made, such as. B. in the cash card. Here the debiting takes place directly from a credit balance loaded on the chip. This corresponds to the current state of the art.
3. The flood of customer cards, bank and credit cards and more also discount cards etc. has the consequence that the majority of consumers and Bank customers a more or less large number of different plastic cards carry with them must, in order to obtain at any time the appropriate benefit of the customer card to be able to.
Nevertheless, according to our findings, currently no universal card in circulation, which contains only entrepreneur-specific address data, which e.g. be read from POS systems and on the receipt can be printed immediately. The obligation to issue invoices with all in the sales tax law according to § 14 Abs. 4 i.V.m. § 14 Paragraph 2 UStG mentioned bills makes especially for invoices over 100.00 EUR in department stores, hardware stores, Discount stores, Gas stations, restaurant operations etc. a special additional administrative burden necessary, as the receipts on separate invoice forms with manual completed Information must be attached. According to the wording of the sales tax law, the recipient of the service is not authorized to attach the missing information on the invoices themselves.
4. The invention is characterized in that on a standard universal card all Entrepreneur data such as name, company, address and possibly VAT identification number stored are and of all common POS systems can be read. The data can Immediately printed directly on the receipt or on the invoice become. All tax-relevant data are thus printed on the receipt and make manual post-processing of the bill superfluous.
About that In addition, the plastic card (entrepreneur card) can also be called electronic Business card can be used, with data - especially at trade shows and Exhibitions - directly in PCs, mobile phones, PDAs or similar can be read.
5. The invention may be managed by an independent organization, manufactured and sold. In particular, the compatibility with all common POS systems by specifying the data format and to ensure in the long run. The plastic card is created on request or on request for a fee. there is assigned a unique and assignable card number.
6. Opposite In the current state of the art, the invention offers the advantage that by standardizing the data format one and the same Plastic card for various companies e.g. can also serve as a customer card.
7. The execution The invention can be achieved by storing all relevant data Magnetic strip or on microchip done.

Claims

System with - a cash register system, the one is associated with performing entrepreneur and has a facility to to print out an invoice containing information about the performing entrepreneur according to the sales tax law is provided, and - one portable memory card, which is a recipient of a performance of the payer Entrepreneur is assigned to store data, the information about the recipients which contain an invoice in accordance with the Value Added Tax Act must, being - the POS system also connectable to the memory card interface to access the data of the memory card and set up is to access the data of the memory card and when printing the bill the account with the information about the performing entrepreneur according to the sales tax law together with the information about the beneficiary according to the sales tax law to provide.

The system of claim 1, wherein the memory card a standardized plastic card is that by means of a magnetic strip or a microchip stores the data,

A system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the memory card a standardized plastic card in the format of about 85 mm × 54 mm is.

A system comprising - a memory card associated with a user for storing data representing information comparable to a business card of the user, and A device having an interface connectable to the memory card and a memory, wherein the device is set up to access the data of the memory card via the interface and to store the data of the memory card in the memory.

The system of claim 4, wherein the memory card a standardized plastic card is that by means of a magnetic strip or a microchip stores the data.

A system according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the memory card a standardized plastic card in the format of about 85 mm × 54 mm is.

System according to one of claims 4 to 6, wherein the device a personal computer, a cell phone or a PDA is.