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US 9,622,555 B2Granted
System for avoiding credit card loss
AssigneeDavid Kopel
InventorsDavid Kopel, Mark Ronald Schwab
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Abstract
A system for detecting when a credit card is withdrawn, or otherwise becomes missing, from a user's wallet and for alerting the user when he has moved a certain distance away from his original location without replacing the card.
Claims22
A system useful in combination with a wallet configured to accommodate a set of credit cards, said system including:
- a contactless reader in said wallet for detecting when a card is absent from said wallet;
- a processor for determining the current physical location of said reader;
- a storage device for storing reference information describing the wallet's reference location when the card was recognized as absent;
- and
- wherein said processor is operable to determine the physical displacement of said reader from said reference location to a current physical location.
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A wallet configured to accommodate a set of multiple credit cards comprising:
- location determining means operable to generate location data describing the current physical location of said wallet;
- a card reader mounted in said wallet operable to recognize when a credit card becomes missing from said wallet;
- a processor operable to store reference data describing the physical location of said wallet when a credit card is recognized as missing;
- displacement determining means operable to determine the physical displacement between the current location of said wallet and the location described by said reference data;
- and
- alert means for generating a user alert when said physical displacement exceeds a defined threshold.
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A system for avoiding credit card loss comprising:
- a wallet configured to accommodate a set of multiple credit cards;
- a card reader mounted in said wallet for detecting the absence of a credit card from said set of multiple credit cards;
- a storage device operable to store reference data identifying the physical location of said wallet when a credit card is detected as absent;
- a displacement determining processor operable to determine the physical displacement of said wallet away from said identified by said reference data location;
- and
- a user alert responsive to said physical displacement exceeding a defined threshold.
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A method of monitoring a set of multiple cards accommodated in a wallet comprising:
- providing a contactless reader for recognizing when one of said cards is removed from said wallet;
- mounting said reader in said wallet;
- generating data describing the wallet's current physical location;
- responding to the removal of a card from said wallet for storing reference data describing the wallet's fixed physical location;
- and
- determining the displacement of said wallet from said fixed physical location to the wallet's current physical location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.