Motionless card magnetic strip reader
AssigneeNCR Atleos Corporation
InventorShannon Louise McGrath
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Abstract
A magnetic strip of a card is read by a card reader while the card remains stationary and motionless within the card reader. The card is parked within the card reader in a read position. A dynamic read head of the card reader moves over the strip from a trailing edge of the inserted card to a leading edge of the card and then back from the leading edge of the card to the trailing edge of the card. A rate and speed of the read head is controlled during the passes of the read head over the strip. The card data of the strip is provided to a terminal during a transaction of a customer at the terminal.
Claims10
A method, comprising:
- detecting a card inserted into a card reader;
- positioning the card in a stationary read position within the card reader, wherein positioning further includes parking the card at a distance of one card's length behind a shutter assembly of the card reader;
- moving a dynamic read head from a first position to a second position over a magnetic strip of the card while the card remains motionless;
- moving the dynamic read head from the second position back to the first position over the magnetic strip while the card remains motionless;
- and
- providing card data read by the dynamic read head to a transaction terminal.
A method comprising:
- detecting a card inserted into a card reader;
- positioning the card in a stationary read position within the card reader;
- moving a dynamic read head from a first position to a second position over a magnetic strip of the card while the card remains motionless;
- moving the dynamic read head from the second position back to the first position over the magnetic strip while the card remains motionless;
- and
- providing card data read by the dynamic read head to a transaction terminal;
- wherein moving the dynamic read head from the first position to the second position and moving the dynamic read head from the second position back to the first position further include controlling a rate of speed of the dynamic read head during movement.
A method comprising:
- detecting a card inserted into a card reader;
- positioning the card in a stationary read position within the card reader;
- moving a dynamic read head from a first position to a second position over a magnetic strip of the card while the card remains motionless;
- moving the dynamic read head from the second position back to the first position over the magnetic strip while the card remains motionless;
- providing card data read by the dynamic read head to a transaction terminal;
- and
- positioning the dynamic read head adjacent to a shutter assembly of the card reader when no card is inserted in the card reader.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.