Systems and/or methods for simplifying payment systems, and payment instruments implementing the same
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1. A payment instrument comprising a card on which at least two account identifiers are disposed, each said account identifier being disposed proximate to an edge of the card.
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Abstract
The exemplary embodiments described herein relate to systems and/or methods for simplifying payment systems, and payment instruments implementing the same. In particular, certain exemplary embodiments relate to a single payment device (e.g., a card) with multiple magnetic strips, a single payment device being linked to multiple accounts, a single payment device having a button required before transmission of payment information, and/or a single payment device being linked to a sub-account (e.g., a petty cash account).
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- 1. A payment instrument comprising a card on which at least two account identifiers are disposed, each said account identifier being disposed proximate to an edge of the card.
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7. A product system operable to route a transaction in dependence on a payment type selected by a user at a point-of-sale after the user presents a single payment instrument at the point-of-sale, wherein:
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when the payment type is indicative of a credit transaction, the product system is configured to route the transaction by posting the transaction to a billing system as a credit card transaction; and
,when the payment type is indicative of a debit transaction, the product system is configured to route the transaction by identifying a debit account and a bank associated with the debit account and debiting the identified debit account in accordance with procedures of the identified bank. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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10. A method of routing a payment transaction, the method comprising:
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receiving a payment type at a point-of-sale; and
,routing the payment transaction in dependence on the selected payment type;
whereinwhen the selected payment type is a credit, posting the payment transaction to a billing system as a credit card transaction; and
,when the selected payment type is a debit; identifying a debit account and a bank associated with the debit account; and
,debiting the identified bank account in accordance with procedures of the identified bank. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. A method of routing a payment transaction initiated by a user at a point-of-sale, the method comprising:
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receiving details of the payment transaction from a point-of-sale system; determining whether the payment transaction details match one or more criteria specified by the user in advance of the payment transaction; and
,when there is a match, charging a sub-account of a main account associated with a payment instrument presented by the user at the point-of-sale, and when there is not a match, charging the main account associated with the payment instrument presented by the user. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. A payment instrument associated with an bank account, comprising:
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a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting information about the bank account to a point-of-sale system to complete a payment transaction, and transmission enabling logic circuitry having a first state indicative of enabled transmission and a second state indicative of disabled transmission; wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit the bank account information in dependence on the state of the transmission enabling logic circuitry. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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