Portable utility billing apparatus

Details Portable utility billing apparatus Portable utility billing apparatus

G - Physics

06

Q

354/34

G06Q 30/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1179066

TITLE: PORTABLE UTILITY BILLING APPARATUS Abstract of the Disclosure A lightweight portable utility billing apparatus (10) is described for enabling a utility (private or public) meter reader to: (1) read utility meters (11) of a number of utility customers on a selected route and obtain current meter value information from each customer; (2) record the current meter value information; (3) automatically calculate the cus- tomer utility charges; (4) print customer bills (13) contain- ing the calculated charges thereon; and (5) deliver the cus- tomer bills (13) to the customer. The apparatus (10) includes a single input/output magnetic tape (61) for mass data storage and an electronic alterable read only memory (424) for stor- ing the utility rate tables. The electronic alterable memory (424) may be readily updated by the magnetic tape (61). A key- board (90), display (80) and impact printer (34) are included as I/O devices with respect to a microprocessor controller (260) that is programmed by an instructional control program stored in a nonvolatile read only memory (422). The apparatus (10) includes many features that greatly increase the versa- tility of the device, even though the apparatus is very light- weight (less than 10 lbs.).

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