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US 8,622,309 B1Granted
Payment cards and devices with budgets, parental controls, and virtual accounts
AssigneeDynamics Inc.
InventorsJeffrey D. Mullen, Philip W. Yen
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Abstract
A payment card is provided with a display. A user may enter budget amounts and budget expiration dates into a card. Such information may be communicated via a dynamic magnetic stripe communications device such that future purchases adhere to the budget amount and budget expiration date attributes set by a user. Users may set budget information for other users. For example, a parent may set budget information for a child.
Claims15
A payment card comprising:
- a display;
- a battery;
- and
- an array of manual input interfaces,
- wherein said array of manual input interfaces is operable to receive a budget amount and expiration date, and
- said card is operable to communicate said budget amount and said expiration date via a dynamic magnetic stripe communications device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.