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US 8,083,145 B2Granted
Provisioning an add-on apparatus with smartcard circuity for enabling transactions
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.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a mobile device, a communication over a network;
- and
- in response to the communication, programming an electronic transaction card with smartcard circuitry in an add-on slot of the mobile device to perform transactions.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a mobile device, a communication over a network;
- and
- in response to the communication, programming an apparatus with smartcard circuitry in an add-on slot of the mobile device to perform transactions.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a mobile phone, a communication over a network;
- and
- in response to the communication, programming an electronic transaction card with smartcard circuitry in an add-on slot of the mobile phone to perform transactions.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at an intelligent electronic device, a communication over a network;
- and
- in response to the communication, programming an electronic transaction card with smartcard circuitry in an add-on slot of the intelligent electronic device to perform transactions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.