Patent ID: 8083138

Claim:
A point-of-sale terminal comprising: electronic transaction circuits; a housing for said electronic transaction circuits; a card swipe track associated with said housing, for dynamically orienting a transaction card having a magnetic stripe on at least one of a first face and a second face of said card; a first magnetic stripe reader head disposed along said track for reading said magnetic stripe on said first face of said card; at least a second magnetic stripe reader head disposed along said track, wherein said second magnetic stripe reader head is opposite and laterally offset from said first magnetic stripe reader head for reading said magnetic stripe on said second face of said card; and wherein said electronic transaction circuits are configured to facilitate multiple simultaneous transactions through said point of sale terminal, said multiple simultaneous transactions comprising at least two of a credit account transaction, debit account transaction, checking account transaction, loyalty account transaction, rebate processing, refund processing, age verification, identity verification, concurrent purchase, and program enrollment.