Patent ID: 7689459
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A transaction card, comprising: a) a card body defining a recess and a viewing window in the recess, the card body having long term information printed thereon; b) a display tag including a character display for displaying short term information, the character display having optical states that are stable without power and viewable from one side of the tag, the display tag also including an array of contacts for addressing the character display from the other side of the tag, the array of contacts being directly connected to the character display via conductive traces, the display tag being located in the recess with the character display being viewable through the viewing window; c) a cap defining a contact window, the cap being mounted in the recess over the display tag with the contacts being accessible through the contact window, an exposed surface of the cap being coplanar with a back surface of the card body; and d) means for providing machine readable data.