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US 6,601,769 B2Granted
On-site multiple media application device for credit type cards
OwnerScott Barnhill, Gregory Barnhill +1inventors
InventorsScott Barnhill, Gregory Barnhill, Guy H. Parr, Jr.
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Abstract
A supplemental computer readable medium is applied to an existing credit card of a customer by a merchant at the point of sale or place of business with a lightweight, simple applicator. The use of supplemental computer readable media on existing cards reduces the bulk that must be carried by the customer, and provides the customer with a computer readable medium in a convenient format.
Claims11
A method of providing a customer with a magnetic computer readable medium, comprising:
- said customer providing a support member to a merchant, said support member having an existing integral magnetic computer readable medium at an existing location on said support member;
- and then
- said merchant placing said support member of said customer in an applicator apparatus of said merchant at a point of sale site of said merchant;
- and then
- said merchant applying a supplemental magnetic computer readable medium to said support member, in a location different from said existing location of said existing integral magnetic computer readable medium, using said applicator;
- and then
- said merchant providing said support member, having said existing integral computer readable medium and also said supplemental magnetic computer readable medium, to said customer.
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A method for a merchant to provide a customer with a computer readable medium, comprising:
- said customer providing a support member to said merchant;
- and then
- at a location of said merchant, said merchant using an applicator to apply a supplemental computer readable medium to said support member of said customer;
- and then
- said merchant providing said support member, having said supplemental computer readable medium, to said customer;
- and then
- said merchant reading said supplemental computer readable medium borne on said support member of said customer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.