ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION CARD POWERED BY MOBILE DEVICE
First Claim
1. A memory card compatible with a memory card slot in a mobile phone, the memory card including nonvolatile memory accessible by the mobile phone, and a point-of-sale interface to communicate with a point-of-sale terminal, wherein the point-of-sale interface receives power from the mobile phone.
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Abstract
An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electronic transaction card may have magnetic field producing circuitry compatible with magnetic card readers, smartcard circuitry, other point-of-sale interfaces, or any combination thereof
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20 Claims
- 1. A memory card compatible with a memory card slot in a mobile phone, the memory card including nonvolatile memory accessible by the mobile phone, and a point-of-sale interface to communicate with a point-of-sale terminal, wherein the point-of-sale interface receives power from the mobile phone.
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7. An apparatus for performing a financial transaction comprising:
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means for communicating through a memory card slot in an intelligent electronic device; means for producing at least one time-varying magnetic field to represent financial transaction data, wherein the means for producing receives power from the memory card slot; and means for storing the financial transaction data. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An electronic transaction card comprising:
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a memory card slot interface; and circuitry powered by the memory card slot interface for producing a signal compatible with a card reader. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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