System for acquisition and transfer of monetary payment data to a banking system server, has manual operated switch for establishing an automatically dialed connection via wireless or wired means with a server

摘要

The system includes a portable terminal with a card reader (14), see Fig. 1, connected to a central processing system (20), and a telephone number composing device (22) connected to a modem (26) for establishing a telephone connection with the server. The terminal also includes a second telephone number dialing device (24) associated with its own modem (28). comprising cabled telephone parts and a switching unit (36) which allows manual selection of communication with the central unit (20) by one of the two telephone dialing devices (22,24) The telephone number composing device (22) and its modem (26) are composed of wireless elements