Personalized greeting card with electronic storage media and method of personalizing same
AssigneeCD coupon, LLC
InventorWilliam S. Simpson
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Abstract
Method and system for enabling a first person to produce a customized gift for a second person, including: providing a computer-readable storage medium having a control program and non-customized information stored thereon; obtaining data from the first person which relates to the second person; using the data to generate a customization code; providing the gift and the customization code to the second person; causing the control program to request the customization code from the second person; and using the customization code to select information from the non-customized information to provide a customized display to the second person. The gift is preferably purchased and customized through an Internet website or other electronic system.
Claims30
A method for enabling a first person to produce a customized gift for a second person, said gift comprising the combination of a computer-readable storage medium bearing non-customized information and a control program for controlling access by a user to select non-customized information, and a card bearing customized information and a customization code, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a host system for receiving instruction from a first person to create a customized gift for a second person;
- directing said host system to receive data from said first person which relates to said second person;
- displaying to said first person a representation of a limited collection of non-customized information corresponding to said data received from said first person;
- prompting said first person to selectively modify and save said limited collection of non-customized information to said host system;
- using said saved limited collection of non-customized information to generate a customization code;
- providing to said second person, in combination, a card bearing said customization code and a computer-readable storage medium having a control program and said non-customized information stored thereon;
- directing said control program to prompt said second person to input said customization code;
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- directing said control program to use said customization code to enable said second person to access said limited collection of said non-customized information to provide a customized display to said second person.
A method for enabling a first person to produce a customized gift for a second person, said gift comprising the combination of a computer-readable storage medium bearing non-customized information and a control program for controlling access by a user to select non-customized information, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a host system for receiving instruction from a first person to create a customized gift for a second person;
- directing said host system to receive data from said first person which relates to said second person;
- displaying to said first person a representation of a limited collection of non-customized information corresponding to said data received from said first person;
- prompting said first person to selectively modify and save said limited collection of non-customized information to said host system;
- using said saved limited collection of non-customized information to generate a customization code;
- storing said customization code in a database together with a unique identifier for a computer-readable storage medium having a control program and said non-customized information stored thereon;
- providing said computer-readable storage medium to said second person;
- directing said control program to access said database and obtain said customization code based on said unique identifier;
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- directing said control program to use said customization code to enable said second person to access said limited collection of said non-customized information to provide a customized display to said second person.
A method for enabling a first person to produce a customized gift for a second person, said gift comprising the combination of a computer-readable storage medium bearing non-customized information and a control program for controlling access by a user to select non-customized information, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a host system for receiving instruction from a first person to create a customized gift for a second person, said host system comprising a database of unique identifiers for a plurality of computer-readable storage mediums each bearing non-customized information and a control program;
- directing said host system to receive a unique identifier from said first person identifying a specific one of said computer-readable storage mediums;
- directing said host system to receive data from said first person which relates to said second person;
- displaying to said first person a representation of a limited collection of non-customized information corresponding to said data received from said first person;
- prompting said first person to selectively modify and save said limited collection of non-customized information to said host system;
- using said saved limited collection of non-customized information to generate a customization code associated with said unique identifier;
- directing said control program to access said database and obtain said customization code associated with said unique identifier;
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- directing said control program to use said customization code to enable said second person to access said limited collection of said non-customized information to provide a customized display to said second person.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.