Interactive multimedia smart affinity card

• US 7,540,412 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2007
• Issued: 06/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Timothy D. Larin
• Original Assignee: R & R Card Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Bertuccelli, Randall P., Webb, Richard S.
• Primary Examiner(s): WALSH, DANIEL I
• Application Number:
  US11/737,698
• Publication Number:
  US 20070190861A1
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 235/487, 235/492, 235/493, 235/380, 283106-108, 283/117, 361/737, 705/41, 720/718, 720/745
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/044 comprising galvanic contacts for contacting an integrated circuit chip thereon
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/086 by passive credit-cards adapted therefor, e.g. constructive particularities to avoid counterfeiting, e.g. by inclusion of a physical or chemical security-layer for security documents G07D7/00; for the reading of record-carriers in general G06K7/00; for the design of coded credit-cards G06K19/10
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0033 with cards or other card-like flat carriers, e.g. flat sheets of optical film
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/24 Record carriers characterised by shape, structure or physical properties, or by the selection of the material characterised by the arrangement of information on the carrier G11B7/007

Abstract

A multipurpose card, including, a multimedia card portion and a second card portion wherein the two card portions releasably cover the multimedia surface of the multimedia card portion. The multimedia card portion can include CD, DVD, or other media technology, while the second card portion can be a credit card, affinity card, or other such card.

Claims

1. A multipurpose card, comprising:

a multimedia card portion having a substantially flat surface including an exposed multimedia surface, the exposed multimedia surface comprising a disc shaped optically readable memory; and

a substantially flat second card portion having means to connect to the multimedia card portion, and the multimedia card portion having a protrusion to connect to the second card portion so that the card portions releasably connect to each other in a stacked relationship and such that the second card portion and the multimedia card portion releasably cover the exposed multimedia surface in between the second card portion and the multimedia card portion, wherein when separated from the second card portion, the multimedia card portion is usable in a multimedia reader device; and

wherein the second card portion comprises a machine readable memory storing information thereon, the second card portion read via one of swiping through a card reader, inserting into a card reader, and passing near a card reader enabling communication with the card reader.

2. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the exposed multimedia surface of the multimedia card portion is selected from the group consisting of CD, CDR, CDRW, DVD, DVDR, DVDRW, HDDVD, HDDVDR, and HDDVDRW.

3. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the second card portion means to connect include a plurality of openings.

4. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the second card portion is the thickness of a bank card.

5. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein when the card portions are not rotated with respect to one another the multimedia card portion extends beyond the second card portion at a first side and a second side to create a first overhang and a second overhang relative to the second card portion.

6. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the second card portion includes a magnetic stripe.

7. The multipurpose card according to claim 6, wherein the magnetic stripe is located on a side of the second card portion such that when the second card portion is interconnected with the multimedia card portion, the multimedia card portion covers the magnetic stripe.

8. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the second card portion includes a magnetic stripe located on a side of the second card portion such that when the second card portion is connected to the multimedia card portion, the multimedia card portion covers the magnetic stripe.

9. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the multimedia card portion includes a plurality of protrusions on the substantially flat surface that facilitate loading of the multimedia card portion in a tray-loading multimedia reader device.

10. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the second card portion is adapted to be swiped through a bank card reader.

11. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, further comprising an overhang which exists when the card portions are connected to each other and the card portions are not rotated relative to one another.

12. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein one of the card portions overhangs the other card portion when the card portions are releasably attached and not rotated relative to one another.

13. The multipurpose card according to claim 12, wherein the multimedia card portion overhangs the second card portion.

14. The multipurpose card according to claim 1, wherein the portions are generally congruent with each other.