Method Performed by a Card Reader and a Card Reader
OwnerCarl Hyslop, Frans Henrik Kockuminventors
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Abstract
A card reader and a method performed by a card reader, comprising receiving in the card reader a card comprising data stored on the card, indicating the identity of a person, obtaining data from the card, detecting any valid primary account number in the data, upon detecting a valid primary account number in the data, truncating the data by redacting parts of the detected valid primary account number to remove sensitive data while maintaining the issuer identification number of the primary account number and the last four digits of the valid primary account number.
Claims22
A method performed by a card reader, comprising:
- receiving in the card reader a card comprising data stored on the card, indicating the identity of a person;
- obtaining data from the card;
- detecting any valid primary account number in the data;
- and
- upon detecting a valid primary account number in the data, truncating the data by redacting parts of the detected valid primary account number to remove sensitive data while maintaining the issuer identification number of the primary account number and the last four digits of the valid primary account number.
A card reader comprising:
- an input means configured to read data stored in a card;
- and
- a processing unit adapted to receive the data, and detect any valid primary account number in the data, wherein the processing unit is adapted to, upon detecting a valid primary account number in the data, truncating the data by redacting parts of the detected valid primary account number while maintaining the issuer identification number of the valid primary account number and the last four digits of the valid primary account number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.