Patent ID: 7561299
Filing Date: 2009-07-14
Classification: B42D,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for producing a gift card in association with a gift imaging product, comprising: receiving an order by a service provider from a first user over a computer network, wherein the order includes a gift imaging product and a gift card to be received by a second user as a gift from the first user; producing the gift imaging product having a first machine-readable symbol; producing the gift card that includes a credit for an image-based product, wherein the credit allows the second user to order the image-based product from the service provider; printing a second machine-readable symbol on the gift card; reading the first machine-readable symbol on the gift imaging product and the second machine-readable symbol on the gift card; and shipping the gift card with the gift imaging product in a common package to the second user if the reading of first machine-readable symbol and the second machine-readable symbol show that the gift imaging product matches to the gift card.