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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBhushan Pradip Jain, Fahad Mahmood, Ravindra Mohan Mijar, Dhaval Kiritbhai Shah
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An approach is provided that displays visual indicators on a financial services card, such as a credit or debit card, that indicates the user's balance at a financial services provider. Available funds data is received at a financial services card that includes visual indicators (e.g., LEDs, etc.), a memory, a processor, a power source, and a wireless transmitter. The available funds data is received via the wireless transmitter. Visual indicators are selected based on the available funds data received from the financial services provider. The selected visual indicators are activated by providing power to the indicators from the power source. In one embodiment, the power source is a piezoelectric material, such as a piezoelectric crystal, that generates power to activate the visual indicators and run the processors and wireless transmitter based on manipulation of the card (e.g., applying pressure, etc. to the card) by the user.
A method implemented by an information handling system comprising:
An information handling system included in a financial services card, wherein the information handling system comprises:
A computer program product stored in a computer readable hardware storage device, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions that include:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.