Provisioning an electronic transaction card for a card issuer
AssigneeTyfone, Inc.
InventorsSiva G. Narendra, Thomas N. Spitzer, Prabhakar Tadepalli
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Abstract
An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. 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.
Claims20
A method comprising communicating over a network to a mobile device with information for programming an electronic transaction card with smartcard circuitry in an add-on slot of the mobile device.
A method comprising communicating over a network to a mobile device with information for programming an apparatus with smartcard circuitry in an add-on slot of the mobile device.
A method comprising communicating over a network to a mobile phone with information for programming an electronic transaction card with smartcard circuitry in an add-on slot of the mobile phone.
A method comprising communicating over a network to an intelligent electronic device with information for programming an electronic transaction card with smartcard circuitry in an add-on slot of the an intelligent electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.