Replies to post #184418 on American Green Inc (ERBB)

[ChartTRACKER]

$ERBB: bucfan: LOL! Come wash my car...

I was a senior Level Executive in the Silicon Valley, in R & D, currently running a high-tech business (yes, my own) in So. Cal.

Whatever is OBVIOUS IS NOT PATENTABLE. That's one of the PRIMARY TENETS of Patent Law (in the U.S. & Internationally)

The Obviousness of checking Demographics (via an external database), is STRIKING UNDER Section 103 of U.S. Patent Law!!

BTW: ZazzZ already checks the "External ID Verification Databases".

"You must not be experienced with how patents work"

[JustMyLuck]

Here you go. This is the description of the claims of the patent. Please explain what your trying to say ? I'm unable to verify what you seem to imply.

"What is claimed is:

1. A method of permitting only authorized users to use an automated vending machine, comprising the steps of: providing each of the authorized users with an identification card that contains age data and fingerprint data of the authorized user; providing a vending machine having an identification card reading device and a finger print scanner, wherein said vending machine vends an age restricted product selected from a group consisting of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages; reading said age data and said fingerprint data from an identification card inserted into said identification card reading device in said vending machine by a potential user; scanning an actual fingerprint from the potential user using finger print scanner; comparing scanned actual fingerprint of the potential user to said fingerprint data contained on said identification card; enabling the vending machine if said scanned actual fingerprint of the potential user matches said fingerprint data contained on said identification card and if said age data contained on said identification card indicates that the potential user is older than some predetermined minimum age.

2. The method according to claim 1, further including the step of providing the vending machine with a money validation system for receiving and validating money from the potential user.

3. The method according to claim 2, further including the step of enabling the vending machine only after the potential user has deposited a predetermined fee into said money validation system.

4. A method of permitting only authorized users to use an automated vending machine that vends an age restricted product, comprising the steps of: providing each of the authorized users with an identification card that contains age data and hand data of the authorized user; providing a vending machine that vends an age restricted product selected from a group consisting of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, wherein said vending machines has an identification card reading device and a hand scanner; reading said age data and said hand data from an identification card inserted into said identification card reading device in said vending machine by a potential user; scanning an actual hand characteristic from the potential user using said hand scanner; comparing the scanned hand characteristic of the potential user to said hand data contained on said identification card; enabling the vending machine if said scanned hand characteristic of the potential user matches said hand data contained on said identification card and if said age data contained on said identification card indicates that the potential user is older than some predetermined minimum age.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein said hand scanner is selected from a group consisting of palm scanners, fingerprint scanners and knuckle scanners.

6. A method of permitting only authorized users to use an automated vending machine that vends an age restricted product, comprising the steps of: providing each of the authorized users with an identification card that contains age data and retina data of that authorized user; providing a vending machine that vends an age restricted product selected from a group consisting of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, wherein said vending machine has an identification card reading device and a retina scanner; reading said age data and said retina data from an identification card inserted into said identification card reading device in said vending machine by a potential user; scanning an actual retina from the potential user, using said retina scanner; comparing the scanned actual retina of the potential user to said retina data contained on said identification card; enabling the vending machine if said scanned actual retina of the potential user matches said retina data contained on said identification card and if said age data contained on said identification card indicates that the potential user is older than some predetermined minimum age.

7. A method of permitting only authorized users to use an automated vending machine that vends an age restricted product, comprising the steps of: providing each of the authorized users with an identification card that contains age data and voice pattern data of that authorized user; providing a vending machine that vends an age restricted product selected from a group consisting of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, wherein said vending machine has an identification card reading device and a voice pattern scanner; reading said age data and said voice pattern data from an identification card inserted into said identification card reading device in said vending machine by a potential user; scanning an actual voice pattern from the potential user, using said voice pattern scanner; comparing the scanned actual voice pattern of the potential user to said voice pattern data contained on said identification card; enabling the vending machine if said scanned actual voice pattern of the potential user matches said voice pattern data contained on said identification card and if said age data contained on said identification card indicates that the potential user is older than some predetermined minimum age."