Patent ID: 8162229
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A system for manufacturing a sheet of financial transaction cards, each card having a plurality of parameters, the system comprising: (A) a mechanism for affixing a first readable data storage mechanism to a surface of a card; (B) a mechanism for affixing a second readable/writable data storage mechanism to a surface of the card; (C) a mechanism for reading, prior to data being written to the second readable/writable data storage mechanism, the data stored in the first readable data storage mechanism; (D) a mechanism for determining from the data read from the first readable data mechanism a value for a data format identifier associated with a second readable/writable data storage mechanism; and (E) a mechanism for recording data to the second readable/writable data storage mechanism in accordance with the identified format.