Multiple Account Advanced Payment Card and Method of Routing Card Transactions
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Abstract
A system of accessing through a financial processing network multiple accounts associated with a single financial card. Data is input to the financial network in addition to the transaction data and the account identification data that in read from the card. This addition data permits the proper account to be accessed. The data may be input at the point of sale as an account selection. In this instance, the selection may be used to route the transaction data through the financial processing network or may be used to read data regarding one of multiple accounts encoded on the card. The data may also be stored as conditional routing rules at transfer points in the financial processing network. In this instance, the transaction is routed to the proper account based on the stored rules.
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38 Claims
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11. A computer-implemented method for processing a transaction originating with a payment card associated with multiple accounts, the method comprising:
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establishing selection criteria associated with the payment card, wherein the selection criteria predefine an applicable transaction process based on at least one attribute of a transaction, wherein the payment card is operable as at least one of a credit card, a debit card, and a stored value card; receiving transaction data comprising one or more attributes of the transaction; identifying, using computer processing components, an applicable transaction process based on a comparison of the selection criteria to the one or more attributes of the transaction, wherein the applicable transaction process comprises one of a debit card transaction, a credit card transaction, and a stored value card transaction; and processing the transaction with a processing system by using the applicable transaction process. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer-implemented system for processing a transaction originating with a payment card associated with multiple accounts, the system comprising computer processing components operable to:
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establish selection criteria associated with the payment card, wherein the selection criteria predefine an applicable transaction process based on at least one attribute of a transaction, wherein the payment card is operable as at least one of a credit card, a debit card, and a stored value card; receive transaction data comprising one or more attributes of the transaction; identify an applicable transaction process based on a comparison of the selection criteria to the one or more attributes of the transaction, wherein the applicable transaction process comprises one of a debit card transaction, a credit card transaction, and a stored value card transaction; and process the transaction by using the applicable transaction process. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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