System and method for secure card packaging and activation
AssigneeCPI Card Group—Colorado, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Hinson, Wilfred Frank Johnson, Jr.
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Abstract
A secure card package including features such that an activable card disposed in the secure card package is activable only upon separation of a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion are separably interconnected along a separation line such that upon separation of the first portion and the second portion a reference edge is defined. A machine-readable activation data field is disposed on one of the first portion or second portion with respect to the reference edge such that the machine-readable activation data field is only readable upon separation of the first portion and the second portion to define the reference edge.
Claims21
A secure card package, comprising:
- a first portion;
- a second portion separably interconnected to the first portion along a separation line and separable from the first portion to define a reference edge of the secure card package that is established only upon the separation of the second portion from the first portion;
- at least one activable card disposed within the first portion so that a proprietary account data field on the activable card is unreadable;
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- a machine-readable activation data field comprising a magnetic stripe that is disposed with respect to the separation line, wherein upon separation of the second portion from the first portion to define the reference edge, the machine-readable activation data field is located relative to the reference edge such that machine-readable activation data field is only readable by a complimentary reader upon separation of the second portion from the first portion as the magnetic stripe is only indexed relative to the reference edge for passage through the complimentary reader.
A method for handling a secure card package having at least one activable card at a point-of-sale location, comprising:
- separating a first portion and a second portion along a separation line at the point-of-sale location to define a reference edge of the secure card package that is established only upon separation of the second portion from the first portion, wherein a machine-readable activation data field comprising a magnetic stripe is disposed with respect to the separation line, wherein upon separation of the first portion and the second portion the machine-readable activation data field is disposed relative to the reference edge to index the machine-readable activation data field relative to the reference edge such that the machine-readable activation data field is only readable by a complimentary reader upon the separating of the first portion from the second portion to define the reference edge for indexing of the machine-readable activation data field;
- reading the machine-readable activation data field with a magnetic reading, wherein the reference edge indexes the machine-readable activation data field relative to the magnetic reading head, and wherein at least one activable card is activated upon reading the machine-readable activation data field with the magnetic reading head;
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- retaining the at least one activable card in the first portion throughout the separating step so that a proprietary account data field on the at least one activable card is unreadable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.