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US 6,402,029 B1Granted
Method and apparatus for combining data for multiple magnetic stripe cards or other sources
AssigneeE-Micro Corporation
InventorFrank J. Gangi
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Abstract
A method of writing additional foreign data either to a blank magnetic card and/or to an existing magnetic striped card is used to consolidate information from possibly multiple credit type cards onto a single card. The additional data that may be from multiple cards or that may be generated or gathered from other sources can then be written to a single card for example to consolidate the information.
Claims6
A magnetically encoded card comprising:
- at least one track originally containing data;
- at least some additional data written on said track placed between a set of special control codes, wherein said additional data is written on said card at a time subsequent to the initial data being placed on said one track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.