Patent ID: 8177129

Claim:
A multipurpose card apparatus, comprising: a multimedia card adapted to removably receive a solid state multimedia memory device comprising a flash memory card, wherein the flash memory card is received inside the multimedia card; a substantially flat second card having a rectangular shape with substantially the same dimensions as a conventional credit card having first means to releasably connect to the multimedia card in a stacked relationship, the multimedia card having second means to releasably connect to the first means, wherein the flash memory card is accessible via an electronic physical connection interface of the multimedia card, wherein the electronic physical connection interface enables reading and writing to the flash memory card by an external multimedia computer processor while the multimedia card and the second card are releasably connected to each other in a stacked relationship, and wherein the substantially flat second card comprises at least one of indicia, raised data, and machine readable data storage, wherein each of the at least one of indicia, raised data, and machine readable data storage comprise data relating to both a cardholder and a card issuer associated with the second card, and wherein the substantially flat second card is separately useable, when detached from the multimedia card and presented to a party, to complete at least one of a credit, debit or affinity card transaction through use of at least the cardholder and card issuer information by the party.