Patent ID: 6951302

Claim:
A method of performing quasi-cash transactions for customers, the method comprising: receiving information from a first customer relating to a desired transaction dollar amount; electronically processing a first driver license issued by a State of the United States of America to the first customer to retrieve machine readable information stored on the first driver license; electronically parsing first customer identification information from the retrieved machine readable information; electronically generating first customer quasi-cash document information utilizing the desired transaction dollar amount and at least a portion of the electronically parsed first customer identification information; printing a first quasi-cash document that displays the generated first customer quasi-cash document information; receiving information from a second customer relating to a desired transaction dollar amount; electronically processing a second driver license issued by a State of the United States of America to the second customer to retrieve machine readable information stored on the second driver license, wherein a formatting of the machine readable information of the second driver license differs from that of the first driver license; electronically parsing second customer identification information from the machine readable information retrieved from the second driver license; electronically generating second customer quasi-cash document information utilizing the desired transaction dollar amount received from the second customer and at least a portion of the parsed second customer identification information; and printing a second quasi-cash document that displays the second customer quasi-cash document information.