Patent ID: 6820041
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
A fuel dispenser capable of communicating with a site controller, said fuel dispenser comprising:a communications interface adapted to transfer information between the site controller and said fuel dispenser; a communications processor associated with said communications interface and adapted to provide: a) a protocol service operating such that said information transferred between said fuel dispenser and the site controller is transferred in accordance with a defined protocol; b) a data type aware SGML service operating such that data transferred from the site controller to said fuel dispenser in a data type aware SGML format is converted to a native format; and c) a storage service operating such that said data transferred from the site controller is stored in an associated memory in said native format; and a fuel dispenser controller to control one or more operations of said fuel dispenser based on said data transferred from the site controller stored in said associated memory.