PAYMENT CARDS AND DEVICES WITH GIFT CARD, GLOBAL INTEGRATION, AND MAGNETIC STRIPE READER COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONALITY
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Abstract
A payment card (e.g., credit and/or debit card) or other device (e.g., mobile telephone) is provided with a magnetic emulator operable to communicate data to a magnetic stripe read-head. Gift cards may be inputted by a user into such a payment card or other device such that a user can combine gift cards. Similarly, a user be provided with a global payment account that can be utilized in multiple countries that have different standards for formatting data. A user may be provided with a default country (e.g., United States) but may have a way to select that the user is in a different country (e.g., Japan). Accordingly, a user may select that a Japanese data structure be transmitted through a magnetic stripe reader when the user is in Japan.
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4 Claims
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1-3. -3. (canceled)
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4. A computer readable medium having program logic imprinted thereon for performing the method comprising:
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providing a graphical user interface for a device comprising a virtual button operable to link a merchant gift card to a payment card number; and recognizing, on a remote server, that said merchant gift card is associated with a purchase and utilizing said merchant gift card as a result of said recognizing.
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