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US 7,954,717 B2Granted
Provisioning electronic transaction card in mobile device
AssigneeTyfone, Inc.
InventorsSiva G. Narendra, Prabhakar Tadepalli, Thomas N. Spitzer
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Abstract
An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electronic transaction card may have magnetic field producing circuitry compatible with magnetic card readers, smartcard circuitry, other point-of-sale interfaces, or any combination thereof.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a mobile device, a communication over a network;
- and
- programming an electronic transaction card with smartcard circuitry in an add-on slot of the mobile device in response to the communication.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at an intelligent electronic device with a memory card slot, a communication over a network;
- and
- programming a memory card with smartcard circuitry in the memory card slot of the intelligent electronic device in response to the communication.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a mobile phone with a memory card slot, a communication over a network;
- and
- in response to the communication, programming a memory card in the memory card slot of the mobile phone to perform financial transactions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.