Method and apparatus for combining data for multiple magnetic stripe cards or other sources
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1. A magnetically encoded card comprising:
- at least one track originally containing data;
at least some additional data written on said track placed between a set of special control codes, wherein said additional data is written on said card at a time subsequent to the initial data being placed on said one track.
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Abstract
A method of writing additional foreign data either to a blank magnetic card and/or to an existing magnetic striped card is used to consolidate information from possibly multiple credit type cards onto a single card. The additional data that may be from multiple cards or that may be generated or gathered from other sources can then be written to a single card for example to consolidate the information.
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1. A magnetically encoded card comprising:
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at least one track originally containing data;
at least some additional data written on said track placed between a set of special control codes, wherein said additional data is written on said card at a time subsequent to the initial data being placed on said one track. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
affinity data.
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5. A card as in claim 1 wherein said additional data comprises:
account data.
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6. A card as in claim 1 wherein said additional data comprises:
identification data.
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