FI100741B - Terminal with controls, display device and magnetic stripe and / or IC card reader - Google Patents

Abstract

Terminal with operating elements (T), a display device (B) and a magnetic strip and/or smart card readout (L). The cards (C) carry items of language-determining information, which after they have been read out lead to the output of items of text information guiding the user in the language determined by this information. <IMAGE>

Description

100741 Terminal with control elements, display device and magnetic stripe and / or IC card reader - Terminal with sticker element, image card management and reading order for magnetic card and / or IC card 5 DE patent publication 31 37 993 C2 discloses a connection arrangement to present information at the subscriber station or at the exchange of the telephone exchange. The information intended for the users of these devices is then in the form of texts, in which case information corresponding to the texts is stored in the memory. This text is read and routed to the display device by selecting an appropriate memory location that contains relevant user guidance text derived from that state of the facility or terminal. The selection is made by generating the address of the memory location, which is derived from the status criteria of the plant or 15 devices. The information corresponding to the texts to be displayed is then in the memory to be exchanged, by changing the memory to another, the same display text can thus be made available in another - foreign - language from the same address by calling.

20 DE patent publication 34 02 454 C2 discloses a switching arrangement in which several memories also have the same display texts in different languages. The memory is then arranged centrally and a memory area containing textual information in the desired language is assigned from the central location by means of the input key information, and the contents of the memory 25 are likewise transferred to the terminal determined by the corresponding control of the input keyboard. The terminal then has only one desired language for the text guiding the user.

This method, in which a certain language is administratively set for the display text 30 controlling the user, is known not only in the case of 2 100741 voice communication service terminals but also in other terminals, e.g. ATMs. In most cases, the desired languages are already stored or set by the device manufacturer or supplier.

5 In practice, more and more terminals with a magnetic stripe card or IC card reader are used. Reading devices are also known which can read both magnetic stripe cards and IC cards. This has been thought of in particular for the use of so-called hybrid cards, i.e. cards with both magnetic stripe coding and codewords on the card's own chip. The structure and quality and processing of the data stored on the IC card are explained, for example, in Telcom Report 11 (1988), Heft 6.

The invention is based on the task of implementing a terminal with control elements and a display device as well as an information card reader, so that the user can be controlled with texts in the language desired by the user. This is achieved from a terminal with control elements and a display device with a memory for receiving data 20 corresponding to the user control texts and a magnetic stripe and / or IC card reader for interpreting the data stored on the card entered by the user into the reader, so that the memory has several memory segments , in which information stored in the same text in one of the plurality of languages is stored in each, and that language determining information is stored on the card, which, after reading, is converted into address information corresponding to a memory segment containing textual information.

It is considered essential for the invention that the terminal has the necessary texts for controlling the user or corresponding textual information in a number of memory areas corresponding to the number of 3 100741 different languages available in several languages and that the user selects his preferred text simply by entering his card into the reader. Given that there are IC cards or magnetic cards for use in different devices from different manufacturers, this automatic setting of the preferred language is especially important because the user cannot be expected to control the different setting procedures for different devices. for.

Furthermore, the method of setting the preferred language according to the invention can be further adapted to the practical requirements by storing at least one other language-determining information on the card and in the absence of a memory segment with textual information in the language determined by the language-determining information. a memory segment with textual information. . in the language specified by the dominant information of the second language.

Thus, when ordering his card from a card distribution company or authority, the user can have the language codes of the desired selection or queue order coded on the card chip I i or the magnetic stripe.

This operation may be supplemented or replaced by another preferred embodiment of the invention, according to which, in the absence of a memory segment having ... textual information by prescribing a (second) language. · Language, indicates a memory segment with text info • • · *:! in standard language. This standard language can most commonly be · · the language of the country of location or English.

The invention will be explained by means of the following schematically illustrated embodiment.

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The ATM 6 includes, as the most important parts accessible to the user, a reading device L for receiving the IC card C, an image surface B, a keyboard T and a dispensing device A for issuing banknotes S.

5 The essential parts of the control of the ATM 6 are a microprocessor μΡ and a memory M with six memory areas M1 ... M6, each of which has the same set of display texts in each of six different languages.

When the IC card C is inserted into the reading device L, in addition to the personal identification numbers, the language determining identifier is read from the IC card 10 C or the chip placed on it, and the corresponding memory area, for example M6, is assigned to the address information obtained therefrom. As the user continues to use the ATM G, i.e. by controlling the private keys on the keyboard T, the respective display texts are given from the memory area M6 to the image surface B according to the progress of the operating operations - controlled by the microprocessor μΡ.

At the end of the operating support, a distribution command is given, again under the control of the microprocessor μΡ, to the electronic processing device 20 V, which causes the amount of money determined by the keyboard T to be • · · * .1 1 distributed by the distribution device A.

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Claims (3)

1. Terminal equipped with - control element (T) for input of control data, - a display (B) for displaying text instructions for the operator in different languages, - a memory (M) for storing the text instructions for the operator in different a reading device (L) for reading the data defining the operator's language stored in the card (C) and for determining the language of the operator's text instructions, - a control means (P) coupled to the control elements (T), via -net (M) to the display (B), and to the reading device (L, C), - wherein the control means is arranged to generate the memory addresses in the memory (M) on the basis of address data, which are determined on the basis of data defining the language, which in turn is determined on the basis of input control data and data defining the read language, and - wherein the control means is arranged to read data according to memory in memory (M) and presents this data as the text displays for the operator on the display (B), characterized in that a) the memory (M) is divided into memory segments (M1 ... M6), in which data according to the memory is stored in accordance with the language, 'b) in the card (C) has been stored data defining the language, C, the control means (P) is arranged to function with respect to: said character b) such that in case the memory address in the memory segment of the memory segment (M1 ... M6) cannot be generated on the base of *. . * first data defining said language, memory memory is generated in the memory segment (M) memory segment (M1 ... M6) on the base of • · o V * other data defining language. \ L / · Terminal according to claim 1, characterized in that, among the data defining data stored in the card (C), one defines a standard one. Terminal according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the card (C) is an IC card.