Patent ID: 9697448
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06Q

Claim:
1. A system configured to make electronic versions of previously-issued non-electronic privilege cards for users, the previously-issued non-electronic privilege cards having been issued by a plurality of card issuers, each of the previously-issued non-electronic privilege cards having been issued to one of the users with a card identifier by one of the plurality of card issuers, the system comprising: a plurality of mobile devices, each mobile device being associated with one of the users and comprising a camera and a display; a server computer remote from the plurality of mobile devices; wherein the plurality of mobile devices and the server computer are not operated by the card issuers; wherein each of the plurality of mobile devices is operative to: capture an image of a previously-issued non-electronic privilege card; transmit, using data contained in the image, issue validation information for the previously-issued non-electronic privilege card to the server computer and not via the card issuer for the privilege card, the issue validation information including at least the card identifier for the previously issued non-electronic privilege card; wherein the server computer is operative to: receive, from the mobile devices and not via the card issuers, the issue validation information for electronic versions of previously-issued non-electronic privilege cards; for each previously-issued non-electronic privilege card for which issue validation information is received from a mobile device, determine whether the electronic version of the previously-issued non-electronic privilege card should issue on the mobile device, based on at least the received issue validation information obtained from the image and additional information; for each previously-issued non-electronic privilege card for which issue validation information is received from a mobile device, in response to a determination that the electronic version of the previously-issued non-electronic privilege card should issue on the mobile device, generate data representing the electronic version of the previously-issued non-electronic privilege card, and transmit the generated data to the mobile device; and wherein each of the plurality of mobile devices is further operative to: receive, from the server computer, the generated data representing the electronic version of the previously-issued non-electronic privilege card; store the received data on the mobile device; and make the electronic version of the previously-issued non-electronic privilege card available for display on the display of the mobile device using the stored data.