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US 8,210,759 B2Granted
Machine having a card processing assembly
AssigneeIgt
InventorsEric Meyerhofer, Joseph R. Hedrick, William R. Wells, Franco Crivelli
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Abstract
A machine having a card processing assembly. The card processing assembly has a card drive and a heating device. The heating device is operable to cause a human-readable symbol to be viewable on a data card.
Claims33
A card processing assembly including:
- a data card acceptor configured to accept a plurality of data cards;
- a card drive configured to transport the data cards;
- a plurality of card magazines, a first one of the card magazines being configured to store a first plurality of the data cards and a second one of the card magazines being configured to store a second plurality of the data cards, the data cards of the first plurality and the data cards of the second plurality being different;
- at least one processor;
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- a memory device storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the data card acceptor, the card drive, and the card magazines:
- (a) receive one of the data cards through the data card acceptor;
- (b) determine whether to escrow the received data card;
- (c) when the determination is to escrow the received data card, transport the received data card to a data card escrow location;
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- (d) after receiving a card exchange input:
- (i) when the received data card is one of the first plurality of the data cards, determine to escrow the received data card and transport one of the second plurality of the data cards stored in the second one of the card magazines from the second one of the card magazines to the data card acceptor for distribution;
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- (ii) when the received data card is one of the second plurality of the data cards, determine to escrow the received data card and transport one of the first plurality of the data cards stored in the first one of the card magazines from the first one of the card magazines to the data card acceptor for distribution.
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A method of operating a card processing assembly, said method including:
- causing at least one processor to execute a plurality of instructions stored in at least one memory device to operate with a data card acceptor to receive one of a plurality of data cards through the data card acceptor;
- causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to determine whether to escrow the received data card;
- causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to, when the determination is to escrow the received data card, operate with a card drive to transport the received data card to a data card escrow location;
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- after receiving a card exchange input, causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to:
- (a) when the received data card is one of a first plurality of the data cards, determine to escrow the received data card and operate with the card drive to transport one of a second plurality of the data cards stored in a second card magazine from the second card magazine to the data card acceptor for distribution, the data cards of the first plurality and the second plurality being different;
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- (b) when the received data card is one of the second plurality of the data cards, determine to escrow the received data card and operate with the card drive to transport one of the first plurality of the data cards stored in a first card magazine from the first card magazine to the data card acceptor for distribution.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.