Stored value card with fraud protection coded cover
OwnerMichael H. K. Tanginventor
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Abstract
A secure and confidential card display package and a method of manufacturing the same. The secure and confidential card display package includes a carrier, a stored value card, and a matching code. The card carrier is constructed, for example, of a laminated material. The stored value card is integrally formed with and selectively detachable along a line of weakness from the card carrier, the stored value card having a coded cover adapted to cover a confidential code at a first portion of the stored value card and a corresponding code at a second portion of the stored value card, and the matching code is disposed on the coded cover and adapted to correspond to the corresponding code at the second portion of the stored value card.
Claims22
A fraud protecting card display package comprising:
- a card carrier;
- a stored value card integrally formed with and selectively detachable along a line of weakness from the card carrier, the stored value card having a coded cover adapted to cover a confidential code at a first portion of the stored value card and a corresponding code at a second portion of the stored value card;
- and
- a matching code disposed on the coded cover and adapted to correspond to the corresponding code at the second portion of the stored value card.
A method for packaging and fraud-protecting a stored value card, the method comprising:
- constructing a card carrier from a card material;
- forming a stored value card on the card material to be integrally formed with and selectively detachable along a line of weakness from the card carrier and to have a confidential code and a corresponding code;
- covering the confidential code with a coded cover;
- and
- printing a matching code on the coded cover,
- wherein the matching code is adapted to correspond to the corresponding code of the stored value card.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.