Interactive multimedia smart affinity card

• US 20050194450A1
• Filed: 02/16/2005
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Timothy D. Larin
• Original Assignee: R & R Card Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Bertuccelli, Randall P., Webb, Richard S.
• Granted Patent: US 7,213,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/487
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/044 comprising galvanic contacts for contacting an integrated circuit chip thereon
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/086 by passive credit-cards adapted therefor, e.g. constructive particularities to avoid counterfeiting, e.g. by inclusion of a physical or chemical security-layer for security documents G07D7/00; for the reading of record-carriers in general G06K7/00; for the design of coded credit-cards G06K19/10
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0033 with cards or other card-like flat carriers, e.g. flat sheets of optical film
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/24 Record carriers characterised by shape, structure or physical properties, or by the selection of the material characterised by the arrangement of information on the carrier G11B7/007

Abstract

A multimedia card, including, a multimedia portion, a multimedia card holder portion, and a multimedia cover portion, and wherein the multimedia cover portion and the multimedia card holder portion releasably cover the multimedia card portion in between the multimedia cover portion and the multimedia card holder portion.

Claims

1. A multipurpose card, comprising:

a multimedia card portion; and

a banking card portion, wherein both the multimedia card portion and the banking card portion have means for connecting to each other to so that the card portions create a stacked relationship relative to each other.

2. A multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the multimedia card portion stores information digitally.

3. The multipurpose card, according to claim 2, wherein the multimedia card portion is a CD or DVD.

4. The multipurpose card according to claim 3, wherein the multimedia card portion is rewritable.

5. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the multimedia card portion further includes a protrusion that extends from the multimedia card portion and wherein the protrusion is adapted to be fitted into the banking card portion to allow for the multimedia card portion to be releasably attached to the banking card portion.

6. The multipurpose card according to claim 5, wherein the banking card portion includes a recess to mate with the protrusion from the multimedia card portion.

7. The multipurpose card according to claim 6, wherein the protrusion extending from the multimedia card portion and the recess in the banking card portion mate with each other so that the multimedia card portion and the banking portion are releasably connected to each other.

8. The multipurpose card according to claim 7, wherein the protrusion from the multimedia card portion and the recess in the banking card portion are located on the multipurpose card in a radius fashion to allow the card portions to be releasably connected to each other by twisting one card portion relative to the other card portion.

9. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the banking card portion is a credit card, debit card, or affinity card.

10. The multipurpose card according to claim 9, wherein the banking card portion is adapted to be utilized in a motorized banking card reader mechanism.

11. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the multimedia card portion is adapted to be utilized in a CD or DVD drive in a computer or other read and/or write mechanism.

12. A multipurpose card, comprising:

a multimedia card portion;

a banking card portion having means to connect to the multimedia card portion, and the multimedia card portion having means to connect to the banking card portion so that the card portions releasably connect to each in a stacked relationship.

13. A multimedia card assembly, comprising:

a multimedia portion;

a multimedia card holder portion; and

a multimedia cover portion, wherein the multimedia cover portion and the multimedia card holder portion releasably cover the multimedia portion in between the multimedia cover portion and the multimedia card holder portion.

14. The multimedia card assembly, according to claim 13, wherein the multimedia portion is one of a:

CD, CDR, CDRW, DVD, DVDR, DVDRW, HDDVD, HDDVDR, or a HDDVDRW.

15. The multimedia card assembly, according to claim 13, wherein the multimedia cover portion includes a plurality of openings, and the multimedia card holder portion includes a plurality of protrusions that extend through the multimedia cover portion openings to releasably interconnect the multimedia card holder portion with the multimedia cover portion.

16. The multimedia card assembly according to claim 13, wherein the multimedia portion is the thickness of a CD or DVD.

17. The multimedia card assembly according to claim 13, wherein the multimedia card holder portion includes a finger opening.

18. The multimedia card assembly according to claim 17, wherein the multimedia portion includes a hub opening that corresponds with the finger opening.

19. The multimedia card assembly according to claim 13, wherein the multimedia card holder portion includes a recess for positively holding the multimedia portion.

20. The multimedia card assembly according to claim 13, wherein the multimedia card holder portion includes a first side orientation flat and an opposite side orientation flat that corresponds with a first side orientation flat and an opposite side orientation flat located on the multimedia portion so that the multimedia portion may be located in the multimedia card holder portion.

21. The multimedia card assembly according to claim 13, wherein the multimedia cover portion extends beyond the multimedia card holder portion at a first side and a second side to create a first overhang and a second overhang relative to the multimedia card holder portion.

22. The multimedia card assembly according to claim 13, wherein the multimedia card holder portion is flexible so that the user may bend the multimedia card holder portion to release the multimedia cover portion from the multimedia card holder portion.

23. The multimedia card assembly of claim 13, wherein the multimedia with the multimedia cover portion including a magnetic stripe containing magnetic information.