Automated Card Customization Machine
AssigneeMsystems Ltd.
InventorsEyal Bychkov, Yohan Cohen, Itzhak Pomerantz, Avraham Meir
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Abstract
A card vending machine includes a storage area, wherein each of a plurality of memory cards to be issued by a respective one of at least two different issuers are stored. A security mechanism conditions access of each issuer to only a respective portion of the storage area upon authorization of this issuer. An interface mechanism is operated by a user to define a purchasing transaction and a controller is operative, in accordance with the interface mechanism, to customize a memory card at least in part according to the purchasing transaction.
Claims60
A card vending machine comprising:
- (a) a storage area, wherein each of a plurality of memory cards to be issued by a respective one of at least two different issuers are stored.
A vending method comprising the steps of:
- (a) storing, in a common storage area, a plurality of memory cards;
- and
- (b) issuing each of said plurality of memory cards by a respective one of at least two different issuers.
A card vending machine comprising:
- (a) an interface mechanism that is operated by a user to define a purchasing transaction;
- and
- (b) a controller operative, in accordance with said interface mechanism, to customize a memory card at least in part according to said purchasing transaction.
A method of vending of memory cards by a card vending machine comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving, by the card vending machine, a respective value of each of at least one parameter that defines a purchasing transaction of a user;
- and
- (b) customizing, by the card vending machine, one of the memory cards, at least in part, according to said at least one value.
A card vending machine comprising
- (a) an interface mechanism that is operated by a user to define a purchasing transaction;
- and
- (b) a controller operative, in accordance with said interface mechanism, to customize a memory card at least in part according to said purchasing transaction by modifying at least 200 bytes of user-dependant data.
A method of vending of memory cards by a card vending machine comprising the steps of.
- (c) receiving, by the card vending machine, a respective value of each of at least one parameter that defines a purchasing transaction of a user;
- and
- (d) customizing, by the card vending machine, one of the memory cards, at least in part, according to said at least one value at least by modifying at least 200 bytes of user-dependant data.
A card vending machine comprising:
- (a) an interface mechanism that is operated by a user to define a purchasing transaction;
- and
- (b) a controller operative, in accordance with said interface mechanism, to customize a visual appearance of a memory card at least in part according to said purchasing transaction.
A method of vending of memory cards by a card vending machine comprising the steps of:
- (c) receiving, by the card vending machine, a respective value of each of at least one parameter that defines a purchasing transaction of a user;
- and
- (d) customizing, by the card vending machine, a visual appearance of one of the memory cards, at least in part, according to said at least one value.
A card vending machine comprising:
- (a) a connecting mechanism for receiving digital content from an external storage unit;
- and
- (b) a controller operative to store, in a memory card, at least a portion of said digital content.
A method of vending of memory cards by a card vending machine comprising the of:
- (a) receiving, by the card vending machine, digital content from an external storage unit;
- and
- (b) storing, in a memory card, at least a portion of said digital content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.