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US 8,136,732 B2Granted
Electronic transaction card with contactless interface
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.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- a point-of-sale compatible interface to communicate with a point-of-sale transaction device;
- and
- a contactless interface to communicate with a mobile device.
An electronic transaction card comprising:
- a contactless interface to allow the electronic transaction card to communicate with a host device;
- a point-of-sale compatible interface to communicate with a point-of-sale transaction device;
- and
- financial card emulation circuitry coupled to the point-of-sale compatible interface to communicate financial transaction data to the point-of-sale transaction device.
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An apparatus comprising:
- smartcard circuitry;
- a point-of-sale compatible interface coupled to the smartcard circuitry, to communicate with a point-of-sale transaction device;
- and
- a contactless interface to communicate with an intelligent electronic device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.