Business calling card
OwnerKenneth J. Kiserinventor
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Abstract
A combination business card and calling card. After receipt of the invention card, a card holder may use the card as a calling card by contacting a designated calling card service company and providing an identification code contained on a particular card. The service company will then set up a calling card account for the card holder. The identification code provided to the service company will identify the person or entity who originally presented the business card. The person or entity who originally presented the card to the card holder will be credited by the service company with a percentage of all subsequent calling card usage by the particular card holder.
Claims6
A method of using a business card as a calling card in combination with a service company having a telecommunications network with an operating services system interconnected to a calling card validation database, comprising the steps of:
- establishing a card identifier with said service company;
- establishing a card identifier account with said service company for a card presenter;
- making up a plurality of combination business and calling cards, each card having said card identifier;
- distributing said cards to a plurality of card recipients, said distribution being made by said card presenter;
- imprinting a designated activation telephone number on each said card wherein each card recipient may contact said service company and establish a calling card account and identify to said service company said card identifier;
- establishing a card recipient calling card account tagged with said card identifier;
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- crediting a percentage value of each card recipient calling card account tagged with said card identifier to said card identifier account.
A method of using a business card as a calling card in combination with a service company having a telecommunications network with an operating services system interconnected to a calling card validation database, comprising the steps of:
- establishing a card identifier with said service company;
- establishing a card identifier account with said service company for a card presenter;
- making up a plurality of combination business and calling cards, each card having said card identifier;
- distributing said cards to a plurality of card recipients, said distribution being made by said card presenter;
- imprinting a designated activation Internet WEB site address each said card wherein each card recipient may contact said service company and establish a calling card account and identify to said service company said card identifier;
- establishing a card recipient calling card account tagged with said card identifier;
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- crediting a percentage value of each card recipient calling card account tagged with said card identifier to said card identifier account.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.