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AssigneeEngineered Systems, Inc.
InventorsMichael D. Sherwood, William T. Gregor, Kenneth D. Snyder, Saddah El-Kilani, Richard W. Roth
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Credit cards to be used with automated systems such as vending machines or the like have various identification and other data encoded on them for use with a particular system for which they are intended. To prevent persons familiar with the system operation and the manner of encoding data on such credit cards from developing unauthorized cards which will work in the system, a random number generator is used to produce a mask for relocating the bits of encoded data in a random manner to various locations on the credit card. This mask is stored in a microprocessor memory and is used both in encoding and decoding such cards.
A system for encoding a credit card or the like for use in a vending machine or the like in a manner to prevent fraudulent fabrication of cards which will work in such vending machine, and in which a predetermined number of identifiable bit locations are used for encoding such data, said system for encoding such credit cards including in combination:
A system for reading information from and utilizing such information encoded on a credit card or the like for use in a vending machine or the like in a manner to prevent fraudulent fabrication of cards which will work in such vending machines wherein the data bits of words encoded on such cards is encoded with the bit locations thereon scrambled and dispersed throughout the total available number of bit locations in accordance with a predetermined pattern of transposed bit locations, said system including in combination;
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