Sleeve for electronic transaction card
AssigneeTyfone, Inc.
InventorsSiva Narendra, Prabhakar Tadepalli, Thomas Spitzer
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Abstract
A sleeve provides communications between an electronic transaction card and an intelligent electronic device. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electronic transaction card may have magnetic field producing circuitry compatible with magnetic card readers, smartcard circuitry, other point-of-sale interfaces, or any combination thereof.
Claims25
An apparatus comprising:
- a body portion having a contour to receive an intelligent electronic device;
- a first interface to provide communication with the intelligent electronic device;
- and
- a second interface to provide communication with an electronic transaction card.
A sleeve to provide communications between a handheld intelligent electronic device and an electronic transaction card, the sleeve comprising:
- an add-on slot to receive the electronic transaction card;
- and
- an interface to communicate with the handheld intelligent electronic device.
An apparatus comprising:
- means for communicating with an intelligent electronic device;
- means for receiving an electronic transaction card;
- and
- means for communicating with the electronic transaction card.
A transaction system comprising:
- a cellular phone receiving portion having a shape compatible with a cellular phone and having an interface to communicate with the cellular phone;
- and
- a stripe to communicate with a magnetic card reader.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.